An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Sokol is a middle-aged Kosovar Albanian who, together with his family, emigrates from Kosovo to Turk...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling...

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

A retired detective moves to a rural village in Ireland where he discovers numerous missing children...

A lapsed alcoholic seeks help from someone he once helped get sober.

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...