The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of ...

The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her young...

High school loser Danny Stein needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the n...

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but al...

Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's se...

Joel has finally made up his mind, or so he thinks. Tonight he's going to tell his parents, but is t...

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical p...

Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate w...

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm ...

The tense relationship between a mother and son reaches a climax during a summer heatwave.

The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese de...

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, hus...

Follows the quiet day of a lonely young girl who tries to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

When something unexpected happens in Oliverio’s family, all he wants to do is walk away. He settles ...
Howard Mitchell is a responsible young man who will soon be graduating from high school. He works at...

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre t...

As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element wh...

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star ...

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against...