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.

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...

Mr. Vitàl is the sole heir and initially very energetic nephew of an elderly rentier, Uncle Ken, who...

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time...

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politica...

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's...

Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a d...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

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...