Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol a...
The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an u...

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Ci...

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they inv...

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy jo...

Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his fa...

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended b...

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be t...

Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He see...

Ambitious businessman Shyamalendu enjoys showing his visiting sister-in-law, Tutul, the extravagant ...

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where h...

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an at...

After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta ge...

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices...

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in...

After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countrysid...