A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter tries to pose as a rich university student to move up in life. The youngest son has a penchant for petty theft.

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themsel...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the ...

During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatri...

Jesse Struthers and his brother Jake find themselves on the run after a band of men begin murdering ...

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-w...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape wit...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...

A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by r...

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a d...

Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being ...

A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies, brumby being a term for the fe...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI ag...

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...