Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
Promising young student Chi-Hao is sent away to train under a new master in order that he may be able to win a martial arts tournament…
A circus woman and her husband find a two year old girl in the trailer park where they are living. With the help of another child,…
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite,…
2001: men without jobs, in the port city of Vigo. Six men worked in a shipyard, now shuttered. They pass the time at La Naval, a…
After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.
Gennosuke, a clan retainer, kills one of the clan ministers as part of a plot to achieve reform. He is pursued by his former comrades, each…
An impossible tale. Taro, an old man who dies homeless in Tokyo has told Yosuke, a weak-willed out-of-work salaryman about a golden statue that he left…
Antoine promises to take the orphaned Juliette away from St. Tropez after a party where she has wandered onto the yacht of the urbane Eric. But…
The animated story of a leader and innovator who is undone by the distorted actions of the followers.
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story…
Hello, my name is Anna and I am nine years old. I wish you had known me before - I mean before my aunt Marga and…
At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of…
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this…
Five key days in a family's life.
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away…
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life, Jane can't…
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to…
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the…
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and eventually strangles the maid.
In the seminal tragedy of a love story, which is shot in a documentary style, a young and inexperienced man falls for a nude and desirable…
A silent film. On a winter night, a young man stands apart at a club while others dance. He leaves, running to catch a tram. He…
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.