Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.

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

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

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her grieving parents are left...

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

In a desperate attempt to make their voices heard by the government, two men and a woman, living in ...

Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's stor...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and ...

The story is set during an upsurge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and revolves around an old, sick...

Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life ...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

Three kids in a low-income neighborhood find friendship and community in an unlikely place.

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

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

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his ...

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

Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wa...

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up...

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...