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...

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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

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

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

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakista...

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

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He n...

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from ...

Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan f...

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by...

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