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.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in t...

On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wa...

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

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport ...

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.