Set in 1972, Kanpur, the film focuses on just one family of four living in rather dilapidated conditions and trying to get by each day with whatever they earn that day. A simple story of a family trying to make ends meet with a happy smile soon takes a turn for the worse as poverty brings out the worst in everyone.

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on th...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese pr...

Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being ...

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themsel...

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-w...

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hung...

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. S...

In the late 19th-century, the Tippel family moves to rural Stavoren in search of greener pastures. H...

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly every...

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order ...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, wher...

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way...

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is reloc...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is e...