The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state, and four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the armed struggle.

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

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victi...

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that ...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

Using her girl-next-door looks to her advantage, Darcy Palmer is a calculating thief and murderer. A...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she ta...

A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui ...

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves he...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the M...

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his Americ...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts cen...