The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958 in Havana, the year that culminates the Revolution, ten-year-old Samuel has just arrived in town with his recently divorced mother. They take up residence in the house of his eccentric grandmother Violeta, and Samuel is introduced to a new, mysterious world where Samuel finds himself an adult in comparison to his child-like mother.

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religi...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teena...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

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

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, broodi...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

Events take place in an isolated mountaineous village where a rabid dog bites the son of Fatime. The...

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowner...

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

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where...

On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GD...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Dev...

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life...

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon...