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 lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known ...

Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a de...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entert...

The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She l...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...

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

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly every...

A pretty pineapple plantation owner is very strict with her younger sister when it comes to men. One...

A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball unifor...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the ...

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...