After a night out, a young woman chooses to walk home alone, turning an ordinary journey into a tense confrontation with the fear many women experience daily.
Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
Paco, a jealous and bitter man who is in love with Rosario, conspires in the shadows to bring about the downfall of Manuel, her husband.
Ellis White, a mysterious young man known for lying, cheating, and stealing, but whose true nature remains unclear. As he moves through a series of chases and tense interrogations, the town begins to build its own version of who he is and what he has done. Rumors spread about stolen gems and hidden secrets, while Ellis appears to know far more about the town and its people than anyone expects.
A depressed Jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen’s nephew and prove he is more than a fool.
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
The memoir of a woman married to an orthodox Brahmin philosopher who converts to Christianity, her story explores issues of religious barriers, disillusionment,and romantic devotion.
After her mother’s death, a trans woman returns home to care for her sick father, who once rejected her. Amid conflicts and silences, their forced coexistence exposes old wounds and tests the limits of affection.
A boy struggles to understand his strange, silent father - a Lithuanian immigrant who has become an emotional refugee in his own home.
A melancholic journey of grief as Alison Pearce come to terms with a reality she was never prepared for. A 'Higgs Boson' sequel.
Oupa en Ouma try to survive during harsh conditions on a farm. With no one around to help. they rely on nothing but their faith.
A Haitian asylum seeker flees an immigration camp, unknowingly approaching a house owned by a paranoid blue-collar worker.
A wounded Revolutionary War soldier takes shelter with a Pennsylvania trapper and his son. As British troops approach, they face choices about loyalty and survival in the wilderness.
A young woman's future is jeopardized by a secret arrangement that throws her life into chaos — but it may be the only way to save her family.
Based on the true story of a woman who emigrated to the United States from Morocco in 1990. She attends college in the U.S. and graduates with a degree in nursing. She meets and marries an engineer. Days after 9/11 when she attempts to fly from Baltimore to New York. At the airport, she is detained by the FBI because her husband has the same name as the lead hijacker in the attacks.
The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by happenstance. He spends much of his life in and near Padua, a city run by usurers. Anthony offers protection and friendship to Folco, at one time a petty criminal and acolyte to the usurers, later falsely accused of murder. Anthony's teaching and his spiritual strength lead to changes in the character of Padua and an end to usury. He became its patron Saint soon after his death, and 32 years later, his casket is opened and his tongue remains intact.
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to increasingly questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
A pragmatic PhD candidate must let go of her logic when she finds a list of items to give away written by the late mother she never knew. With the encouragement of her enthusiastic new mentor, she attempts to return everything on the list and begins to encounter unexplainable coincidences that lead her to understand the world’s smallest marvels have the greatest meaning.
A story of love, sex and teen pregnancy in San Antonio, Texas. Petting Zoo is the portrait of a young woman coming into her own, in an environment that does not always present ideal circumstances.
Under the influence of a hallucinogenic cactus, a couple of French comes to introduce, like a virus, into a Mexican landscape whose practices, codes and uses they do not know.