A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
This is the story of two male prostitutes who want to become professional actors and how they struggle to get into show business.
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
The story of three torn apart families on the verge of Sinterklaasavond, the Dutch equivalent of Christmas Eve.
After a year in Paris and having failed his entrance exams, Slim is forced to return to his small village in Isère. There, he reunites with Joseph, his best friend, who struggled with Slim’s departure. The reunion is tense. Under the summer heat, amid unspoken words and shattered dreams, tensions rise.
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
A former Los Angeles drug dealer moves far away to Texas, making a new life for himself as a married architect in the suburbs. His old crime partner unexpectedly shows up with heroin and gangster business, attracting a slew of violent unsavory characters.
A married woman falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, and she has to make a choice between her family and the one who might be the love of her life.
Nas is a young woman from a neighborhood in the Parisian suburbs. Since the death of her parents, she has been forced to take care of her family (her two little sisters). As fate is against her, she must assume this new responsibility alone, her husband Mehdi being incarcerated. Fortunately Nas can always count on the support of his best friend: Alyssia. The young woman with a joyful and explosive temperament is an unwavering support for the one she considers her own sister.
On n'est pas des racailles
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Summer at the beach. People swim, yell, play and tan. Twenty-five-year-old Marie, who came alone to sunbathe and swim in the sea, loses her bikini bottom in the water. Half-nude, she can't bring herself to leave the water.
The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté and infinite self-confidence, she tries to adopt his lifestyle - without anticipating the consequences.
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.