The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and...
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from thing...
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition ...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
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...
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a meta...
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and d...
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to...
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known ...
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long y...
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog...