Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins from the enemy tribe that murdered her husband; the gift puts her in conflict with her kinsmen, who want the money to buy back land taken by the enemy in cahoots with French colonials.

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking ...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, en...

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Cha...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control...

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...