From her childhood, Nadia felt responsible for her mentally disturbed and recently homeless mother, Irene. For a while Nadia had cut off all contact with Irene and tried to live her life, until Irene suddenly appears drunk at the wedding of her son, Mickey. Nadia sinks back into this quagmire of love and hate, responsibility, guilt and shame. She gathers her strength to find a home for her mother while at the same time she hides from her partner, Ian, the fact that the drunk woman at her brother's wedding was her mother. But no one can oppress Irene, let alone her daughter.

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the ...

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look a...

Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly disc...

In a town south of Mexico City, the director relives the moment his father fell ill during the secon...

A look into the lives of a lively group of unhoused young adults in the iconic beach town, who come ...

A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor figh...

Saraswathiyamma is the head of a noble family that treats her servant Krishnan as one of her own son...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addicti...

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

A father and seaman named Antonio is forced into retirement after learning he can never board a ship...

Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue th...

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his ...

On the brink of divorce a middle aged man, Olavi, retreats to his cabin by the lake. After a few day...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...