When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as “B. Monkey” — the top thief-for-hire in London’s criminal underworld. Charmed by…

A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last…