An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

Toni, Aghi, Bubu, and Saras get the task of making essays. They create a free school for street chil...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes ...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and do...

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is pa...

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time ...

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder ...

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison:...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...