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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...

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

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

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

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...

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

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