Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic…

The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life’s cold unpredictability.

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to…

Leyla and her boyfriend Yilmaz are in the porn film sector for 25 years in Germany. A while ago, they moved to Istanbul and Yilmaz left her for another woman….

The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner Niloofar, however,…

Germany in the early 19th century. “Die Vermessung der Welt” follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.

A lonely and emotionally neglected rich kid forms an attachment to one of the men who kidnap him during a botched robbery of his father’s safe.

The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.

Irresponsible party girl, Maggie is kicked out of her father’s and stepmother’s home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer, Rose. After Maggie’s disruptive…

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

After the death of his fiancée, an American illustrator runs out of medication while wandering the isolated Icelandic countryside – unsure if his compulsions are related to his disorder or…

Mother and daughter – Big Edie and Little Edie Beale – live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her 50s, who wears scarves…