Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use ...

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his h...

In this Depression-era tale, Calef is traveling from Michigan to California and stops in Spooner, Mi...

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...

Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neru...

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...

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

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...

America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, tha...

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dre...

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, volunt...

At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography ...

After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.