15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

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

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play ...

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their...

Jin-a, a young prostitute, moves into a seaside motel called the Birdcage Inn, run by a dysfunctiona...

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyon...

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, ...

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Mar...

Alexandre Boursault, a provincial notary, would have been the happiest man alive if his wife did not...

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he ...

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicat...

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision th...

Christine is a young farm worker in a small village in post-war Germany. Her attempts to improve her...

West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of m...