A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Two gay-straight best friends find their close relationship upended when one gets a new girlfriend.
Hunter Carson receives a letter from his old Uncle Jack imploring him to visit in Spain. When Hunter arrives in Barcelona and Jack is nowhere to be found, the young man follows a series of clues that lead him to a surprising revelation about his family and future.
Moody, edgy and unrelieved: the duplicity of desiring one’s double.
In the everyday life of the bus, the world still hopes to find warmth.
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
In a dystopian society, Mariam, like all citizens, receives a government call precisely 24 hours before her predetermined death informing her of her final day.
Claire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote countryside in Italy. Their life seems to be perfect. But when Claire's sister gets murdered in the very same house, the traumatic event shakes up their relationship. Disappointment, fear and resentment they swept under the rug for years, resurface. Revealing the dark side of a blissful love - a dream that turns into a nightmare. It is the story of two people trapped in a dark secret.
Tells the story of a grandmother after the death of her husband. And how this fact confronts her with her own life.
Marie relaxes at the beach under a parasol. The only problem is that it is night time.
Enys works the family farm with his widowed mother and grandmother. An exceptional rugby player, Enys leads his team to the final of The Cornwall Cup, all the while living with the pressures of his fathers legacy and a secret relationship.
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia.
It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
Three friends leave their small town to walk to Chicago, but find the tension among themselves rising.