My Brilliant Career (1979)

Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver’s mayor.

India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident,…

Alice spends her days enslaved on a rural Georgia plantation, restlessly yearning for freedom. After a violent clash with plantation owner Paul, Alice flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles…

A middle-aged garage owner’s life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.

Men and boys learn together what it takes to be a man.

The true story of a French teenager rising out of the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music. Regis is a culturally gifted boy who dreams of success for…

A story in four parts is told from the perspective of two children, showing life in school, in nature, with family and at home. All of this unfolding along with…

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for…

Agnes “Astra” Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks…

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in…

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer Esther Hoffman after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at…