Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the owners are planning to sell the property, Jose seeks any solution that might keep his young daughter from growing up in the city's crime-sodden slums.

Eun-jung, who is poor enough to buy a sanitary pad, leaves school without her father's knowledge and...

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the ...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After he...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there a...

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppr...

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog...

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts a...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a t...

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she re...

In China, Ben & his friend watch a ping-pong competition on a communal village TV, and Ben's dreams ...

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in...

A humble family receives a real Greek gift: a luxury car, which cannot be sold for two years. To mak...