The plot, set in Havana in the last period of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, follows a young girl whose aspirations to obtain a scholarship in America, against the odds, are paralleled with her reading of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norm...
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie ...
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive a...
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his...
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited ...
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious...
Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depic...
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Be...
"Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It...
Bonifacio 1883, extreme south of Corsica. The widow of the late Saverini lives in an isolated house ...
One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuck...
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joy...
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten film...
Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him ince...