Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

Catherine is a teenager going through adolescence just as her parents are getting a divorce. Her soc...

China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair and a child who holds all the secrets.

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the ...

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

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...

Alcopops, VHS tapes, cigarettes, boys, MSN Messenger, Placebo - this is 2003. Set on the Isle of Wig...

The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending muc...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

Christian (12) and his best friend have been invited over to an older boy from school. There, he ent...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

A story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home f...