At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, excep...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fa...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a m...
He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house ...
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends ...
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising...
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mys...
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines...
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con...
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...