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.

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well ...

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying...

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women c...

A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.

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

An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing...

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle agains...

Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers b...

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they ...

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...

On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GD...

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religi...

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

Events take place in an isolated mountaineous village where a rabid dog bites the son of Fatime. The...