A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back to an isolated hut where he lives with a lazy man who refuses to abandon the place, which is more a lair for savage animals than a shelter for human beings.

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives...

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads o...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

Ismael and Julie, in the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, enter a playful yet emotionall...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

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

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up...

In the Valley of the Moon, follows a young man working as a hitman for the Italian mob in 1977. He t...

A poor fisherman and his girlfriend live in a small boat under an open sky for decades. Based on a t...

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

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

Three kids in a low-income neighborhood find friendship and community in an unlikely place.

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old frie...

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends...

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children...