After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.

On his 16th birthday, alone and depressed Yoke is taken on a journey by his friend Rico, to have the...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

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

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

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

A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoen...

Returning to her coastal hometown for the 1997 general election, a young girl reunites with her scho...

Luka moves to a small coastal town to live with his aunt, while his parents are in the middle of a d...

Montreal 1952, teenager Samuel brings his friend Julien to the neighbourhood steam bath for his week...

When a video of Toby being brutally humiliated at school appears on the Internet, Toby's high school...

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to e...

Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When ...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...