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.

A solitary individual finds solace in remaining within the confines of his residence, contending wit...

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German ...

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...

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited ...

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern A...

The year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to m...

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

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

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

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

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...
In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams ...

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in t...

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...