This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi – who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

The story depicts the interaction of the children of the island and their teacher, Yoshioka Makotowa...

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

A young girl is approaching the end of a cycle, when she gets a visit from a goddess named Norn. Una...

A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later ...

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a ...

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the mo...

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

A dweeby, mild-mannered man comes to the aid of a drunk young woman on a subway platform. Little doe...

Barbara is a professional clown, as is her partner Heli. The two children call them a "clown family"...

Li Mo and An Delie, who have very different personalities, become close friends because of soccer, b...

The life of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor was turned upside down when he's implicated in the wrongful death tri...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Selma's mother died giving birth to her, and Selma's step aunt is living proof that men only cause t...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and th...

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themsel...

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way ba...