A young boy named Guskou lives in the countryside with his parents and little sister. A string of droughts and other natural disasters tear the family apart, and Guskou is forced to leave home and seek his fortunes on his own. Driven by a desire to improve the quality of life of his poor countrymen, he eventually joins a group of scientists called the Ihatov Volcano Department; he takes part in scientific projects to fight the natural disasters that drove him from his home.

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...

The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two pa...

Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel g...

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...

Two sisters navigating the no man's land between childhood and adulthood have to deal with the conse...

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit h...

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the wo...

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppr...

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions se...

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
After many years in Africa, a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride...

Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and fi...

Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, bu...

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu...