In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

11-year-old Ena meets a young fisherman in a port. He gives her an eel and they arrange to meet the ...

Fifteen-year-old Sarah has returned to Colmar, where she has taken up high-performance figure skatin...

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before sh...

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...

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, thro...

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

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

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange stud...

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti...

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...