David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is 1960's London, and when the locals start making life difficult for the new arrivals, David has to choose between fitting and and standing up for his new friends

In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memo...

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly ch...

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive ...

Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their l...

In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship ou...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver...

Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, where three teenagers ed...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

An orphan boy with dreams of finding a family and fame as a cricketer, finds a bat with magical powe...

In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win th...

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable t...

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything...

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after s...