Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

A nurse's aid, Cathy lives alone. Too alone. When her sister, with whom she's had a falling-out, cal...

11-year-old Ena meets a young fisherman in a port. He gives her an eel and they arrange to meet the ...

Fifteen-year-old Sarah has returned to Colmar, where she has taken up high-performance figure skatin...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

A wife who lived a modest and happy life with her husband, a serious office worker. One day, it was ...
The life of a Romanian Orthodox Priest, who went from a hard childhood in godless, communist Romania...

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and ...