Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of p...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting ...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...

The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant hi...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...

Five random strangers find themselves trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower...

Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori culture, is determined to fulfill her mission...

In the early days of a now lawless, post-apocalyptic world, a small group sheltering in a remote cab...

By fabricating her biography, Luo Su, a young Chinese white-collar worker from a low-income family, ...