Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American...
Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial d...
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previous...
A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secre...
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...
Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the f...
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of ...
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher w...
An older professor longing for motherhood must recalibrate her path to pregnancy when she realizes o...
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns...
In the 1970's a young idealistic teacher arrives in a remote impoverished North East Issan village t...
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her fami...
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...