Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t...

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in...

A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

Green Days by the River is one of the most best-loved works of Caribbean literature. Written by laud...

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

In 1951, the well-known Czech actress Jiřina Štěpničková receives a letter from Austria from directo...

Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black famil...

A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many o...

The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the...