In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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

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

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search...

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man ...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the d...

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that...

A group of paint worker can’t take their salary from the fabricator and they go on strike.

The film follows the lives of those who immigrate to the city, leaving their families behind. Ahmet ...