Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly...

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her fami...

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

Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedd...
Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in t...

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...

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

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her opp...

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a g...

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette ...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of ...

Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a...