This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care...

Rocío, is in love with Mario, a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the...

In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles u...

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

Green Days by the River is one of the most best-loved works of Caribbean literature. Written by laud...

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile menta...

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific execu...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a...

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Te...

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowb...

Four university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get...

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a...

Ashley, a young man with a childlike mind arrives to stay with his uncle, David. Escaping from his a...

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a ...

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon mission...