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.

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...

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer...

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were runnin...

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommis...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...

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