Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.

In the troubled city of Edison, a young journalist, his jaded editor, and an honest investigator fro...

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic ...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings...

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense o...

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary ...

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock sc...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...