One evening, in a remote Norwegian mountain-town, two 12 year old girls meet. For the first time in their lives they are thrown into a strong emotional confrontation. The next day, Unn is unable to meet Siss again. Instead, she ventures alone into the cold, lonely winter landscape.

A shy student suddenly becomes the center of attention when she wins a huge birthday party that she ...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

It is the 1980s. Jens and his brothers live in a single-family house in Risskov, a suburb of Aarhus,...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan...

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...