A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the women to live in the foreign nation for an extended period before they can take in orphaned kids. While stuck in another country, the women bond as they share their aspirations and anxieties.

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of ...

Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr....

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energet...

When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" ...

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by priso...

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one o...

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal t...

Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of ...

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose ...

Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude F...

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the...

Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups...

Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American politica...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

In the early 1970s, a young woman in prison for murder reflects on what led her to the crime, the cu...

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to imp...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a...