Two young, inexperienced students, dissatisfied with the demands of their teachers and the mentoring of their parents, try to cross illegally into the country - but because they are headed for friendly Poland, nothing happens to them. The story is set in the early 1960s and depicts the heyday of café bands. The two protagonists admire one such band, which plays jazz, misses school and wants to radically change their current life, which they find grey...

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...

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

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt...

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the...

The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play...

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...

A dissatisfied young man creates a false identity to feel accepted. In trying to be someone he's not...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...

Warsaw, Poland, 1953. Mr. T., a renowned writer, lives in a hotel and earns his living by giving pri...

When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trump...

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man ...