JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
When Arjun, a 8-year-old-boy, expresses his desire to switch from daily car rides with his grandfath...
In a bid to extend his adolescence, Gordon convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend ...
A recently broken up couple spends their last evening together: for one of the girls this is the las...
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy li...
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy jo...
A troubled nanny teaches a bullied ten-year-old that freedom to move forward is made possible by she...
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goe...
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son int...
In Hamburg, West Germany, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a t...
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christma...
Tara is a single mother, harried, overworked, and worried about her 8-year-old boy and his growing l...
A frustrated Hong Kong writer, Tian-Yu, meets a Taipei street gangster, Xiang, and the two of them e...
Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist cinema, Sophisticated Ac...
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself...
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...
Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and b...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influen...