A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their a...

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bun...

In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too yo...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for somet...

Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah ...

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The ...

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...

A teenager investigates the disappearance of his cousin.

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...

A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has ...