Frisco Jenny (1933)

Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.

A sensitive, educated black man’s World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily…

When family life becomes monotonous, two normal families find a not-so-normal solution to their problems. But it seems that the problems tend to get worse.

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.

The new season of “American Dreamz,” the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country’s attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a…

A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.

A prodigious young soccer player from rural Queenstown must face the return of his washed-up, pro-footballer father, and navigate the choice between his team’s success and his own dreams.

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

A young couple in Berlin’s ‘Mitte’ district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can’t stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the…

A girls’-night-in dinner party among three friends turns into a disaster when one of them makes a hurtful remark.

An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.