After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again how thin the ice is and how fragile happiness is, small though it may be.
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man...
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
An old woman thinks back to the murder of her husband by British officers.
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...
Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When no...