A sociological drama with a detective plot taking place in the period of industry and agriculture collectivization of the 1950s. Peter Lánik, a young lawyer, during a trial finds out that whom he thought to be his father is in fact only his stepfather. Little by little he learns about the tragic life of his parents as well as about the dramatical atmosphere of the forced cooperativization of village farms.

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a M...

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold Wa...
In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams ...

On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from ...

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical p...

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very danger...

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was b...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppr...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...

Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...

Based on true events, the film presents nearly all stages of national hero Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan'...

Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...

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

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a ...

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon mission...