For a lifetime, Hedi Ohlsen subordinated her needs to the family. She raised a child, took care of the house and learned the unloved profession of dental assistant for the sake of her husband Johannes. And although John has left her for a younger one, Hedi still cares for her elderly mother-in-law Agnes. As this now blesses the time and Hedi finally wants to start her own life, suddenly her pregnant daughter Leonie is attacking at the door. She has quit, no money and no father for the child Hedi is to raise for her. Is the dream of late freedom back?

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

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

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self...

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rap...

Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she...

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parent...

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel ...

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business a...
Fighting to reunite with their children, 'Tough Love' chronicles the lives of two parents with cases...

Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a m...

Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Mar...

Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she los...

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is prope...

Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris af...

Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wou...