Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother retu...

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Irel...

In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experime...

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents...

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various...

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend ...

Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the ...

Salaam Namaste is about two Indians who have left their houses to make a life on their own, and how ...

American ex-Air Force man and current businessman Bob Macklin is married to the impoverished Italian...

A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment...

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husba...

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

In a Copenhagen suburb the 19-year-old Per is found unconscious after having been badly beaten up. H...

On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a...

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. Wh...

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally gl...

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol a...

Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the sm...

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her...