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.

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...

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided ...

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving ...

A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as th...

Two different high school children - a swimmer and an academic - set off on a quest together one sum...

A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old sh...

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...

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