The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like unemployment, strike, poverty, alcoholism, absent fathers, wise and tired mothers, the dream of a better life and the friendship between the boys in the street.

Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life ...

Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity...

In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip...

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with a...

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue ...

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passi...

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts a...

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinc...

Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surg...

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...

In the 1950s, guitar-playing drifter Dude Delaney wanders into a quiet town looking to play music an...
This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in t...

Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's stor...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational o...

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the ...

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent in...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and ...

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...

Benjamin is at war: with life, with adults, with himself. From his earliest childhood onwards, the 1...

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most ...