The country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Her brother is imprisoned, her father dead and her sister blind.

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen p...

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to...

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

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the ...

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising f...

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

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.

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a d...

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

Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader...

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live...

A young girl's faith is tested, when her parents are suddenly killed in a car accident and she's for...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, e...

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose ...

"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's fune...