German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famo...

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents...

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life ra...

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibout...

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager ...

American ex-Air Force man and current businessman Bob Macklin is married to the impoverished Italian...

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

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Five friends from Goa get lost during a journey to discover the lot of the childhood sweetheart of a...

After a long night out two lonely people awake in unfamiliar places on opposite ends of the same cit...

Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish...

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a s...

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme...

Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she be...

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kit...

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her ...

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...