In the 1970's a young idealistic teacher arrives in a remote impoverished North East Issan village to teach in a school. He must first reform the womanizing, gambling addicted, wife beating headmaster. He helps poor families get school uniforms and books for their children.

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...

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

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her fami...

Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedd...

Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in t...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

Gemini is a special child with some behavioral disorders. She is an adopted child and to make things...

Hawaa Hawaai is a story of the triumph of the human spirit; friendship and enjoying the journey of m...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bun...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...