Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's d...

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- ...

Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvestin...

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to en...

Air traffic controller Markus Hofer is partly to blame for a collision between two airplanes in whic...

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's ...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...

After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's...

Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married...

Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car a...

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they ar...

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his...

Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride t...

Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all...

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...