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.

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

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

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...

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

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...

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

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

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

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...

An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment...

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved ...

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.