In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Whether it's playing games in a military zone, cheating at school tests, crossing borders for cheap ...

It's summer. Three friends meet. They will spend a few days in the mountains, camping, walking, chat...

Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the firs...

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defe...

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals ...

When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order...

Claire Kelly was sure her world had been torn apart forever when the love of her life, a B-24 pilot,...

The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexuall...

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.

Two young siblings ended up living on the streets, having nothing left but their love. It's a story ...

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marr...

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influe...

Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.

Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within ...

A ruthless loan shark doesn't realize the evil that he has done to his own family: his son is waist-...

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herse...

The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.

On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassi...

Salma, a well-respected, Arab American professor, is stunned into silence after her world is shaken ...

At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatle...