Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

Desperate to provide a comfortable life for her children, Ina willingly takes all kinds of jobs avai...

Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by go...

In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesom...

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husb...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...

Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate an...

The U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's avacado supplies, recruits feminist professor Mar...

A young woman, Abby, makes a deal with her younger brother Danny, allowing him to seek refuge at her...

Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Will...

Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with...

In the midst of Panama's ongoing water crisis, Luis, a child from a struggling family, seeks hope in...

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problem...

Two childhood friends must fight against each other after growing up to be on opposite sides of the ...

Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets m...

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as...