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.

As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its studen...

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

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

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy livin...

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...
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 ...

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...

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight s...

In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his...

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in wh...
Before we can join society as productive and acceptable human beings, we are forced to endure a diff...

Desperate to prove to his peers that he’s more than a chubby kid that never wins at anything, little...

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in...

Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. W...

Before heading off to college, a teenager and her two friends try to seduce a married man.