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.

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

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett ...

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in t...
A former police officer accidentally killed a bystander while hunting criminals. Now he lives alone,...

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the e...

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. Bu...

Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. U...

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary ...

Facing bankruptcy after losing a card game, U Bo Shwe and his daughter Khin May must defend themselv...

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a M...

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 ...

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...

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

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret...

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...

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...