On a northern Italian farm, Batistì and his wife decide to send their son Minec to school, sacrificing his help in the fields but hoping to break the cycle of poverty in the family. But when Minec’s shoe breaks while walking for miles, Batisti puts the family’s future at risk to replace the clog.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not c...

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to I...

A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show i...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is di...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan ...

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His convictio...

15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. ...

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in P...

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding...