The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.

Alexandra Michaelson has spent two years on the city streets as a runaway, but she awakens after an ...

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive da...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...

Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage,...

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her famil...

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when ...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When...

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before sh...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a sup...

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. Bu...