A Stranger in Town (1967)

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful clan leader. He’s also challenged to…

When their campsite is vandalized by troublemakers, a family fights fire with fire.

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest…

The story follows a new school principal in a village who tries different ideas to make sure that the children from the school have a bright future.

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns…

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can…

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

Baby Bink couldn’t ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he’s just about to appear in the social pages of the…

In a dusty Rajasthan village, two sisters, Badki and Chhutki, are constantly at each other’s throats over trivial matters. Their father, a widower, struggles to keep them from tearing each…

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to…

Have you ever sat by the phone wondering why he said he would call, but didn’t, or you can’t figure out why she doesn’t want to sleep with you anymore,…