Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long...

Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, th...

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog...

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of th...

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest c...

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...

Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.

Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she ad...

Anna, 12, lives with her deaf mother in a loving bond, yet under humble conditions, that are a sourc...

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall ...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ra...

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there a...

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...