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.

Consumed with the monotony of her domestic life, a lonely housewife is forced onto tranquilizers to ...

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with cont...

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts th...

The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday fro...

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon fin...

France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the ...

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the e...

A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned ...

Green Days by the River is one of the most best-loved works of Caribbean literature. Written by laud...

Combining modern footage with home movies and interviews, filmmaker María Casado's life is explored,...

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a ...

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon mission...

Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his m...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster thr...