As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff an...

The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. ...

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...

Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a ...

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

A black doctor ex-convict returns to the all-white town he knows as home and discovers a deadly dise...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul...

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were exp...

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

Student Tako is inexorably drawn toward Sao despite class rumors that she has appeared in a porno mo...

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major tow...

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school...

The story is about a poor lorry driver named Bhaskaran (Kalabhavani Mani), who tries to give his son...

In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesom...

A poignant exploration of one man’s journey to break the violent chains of intergenerational trauma.

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to ...

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...