Love Story (1970)

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a…

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven…

A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In “Children in the Crossfire” four children from both…

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community’s allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and…

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen…

The life story of traditional Irish folk singer Joe Heaney, who is estimated to have recorded in excess of 500 traditional Irish sean nós (‘old style’) songs. Heaney moved from…

In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean…

A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.

Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a “prison for profit” program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution.

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home’s declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.