Some Mother’s Son (1996)

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t…

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes…

Maayandi, the only farmer in a village that has abandoned farming, is charged with a petty case that leads to his imprisonment.

A small-time magician with zero interest in football must lead his local team to the finals of a tournament if he wishes to marry the love of his life.

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother’s hands, harsher abuse at his father’s, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

Nick tries desperately to have one more real moment with his father Jim who suffers from Alzheimer disease.

Once she’d been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion…

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he’s unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all…

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over…

Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil’s Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey…

Docu-fiction that tells the story of Libero Grassi, the months in which he broke the silence, the silence in which he found himself isolated, until he became an easy target…