One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation...

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her th...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. A...

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti...

A dwarf and his poor, but loving, family who are forced out of their house by a real estate agent.

Han Byung-tae, who teaches at a private after-school academy in Seoul, receives word that his old te...

A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of cu...

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to...