A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, la...

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringin...

Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and ...

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-a...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-ri...

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ...

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after ...

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward,...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshi...

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...