In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews...

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In...

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known ...

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inm...

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts ...

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...

In 1980s rural Andhra Pradesh, A spirited villager unites his community through sports to defend the...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by...

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family li...

A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few supe...

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against h...

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Y...

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a...

Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existen...

The sudden pregnancy and miscarriage of a young woman results in a turbulent day of anxiety and lone...

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the c...