Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

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

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy livin...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long tim...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

Ulysses is a shy and effeminate boy who finds himself coping with new responsibilities as man of the...

Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When L...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

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

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...

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

Closeted prom nominee Callie is forced to make a life altering decision on the night of her senior p...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...