After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to...

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English...

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side...

The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who...

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming...

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her...

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a...

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the...

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through...

Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

A former boxer turned parking lot attendant finds hope in the love of the blind telemarketer who walks into his booth one day.