Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her fami...
Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedd...
Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in t...
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of ...
In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too yo...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...
Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man ...
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where ...
A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her....
A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she f...