People & Things

A community of women lives in an old convent that falls apart. They never talk and strive to keep everything clean. One day, Irene realizes for the...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

John Person tells the story of how he fell into his coveted job by describing the life of Anatole, the man who occupied the position originally and...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between...

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

In the border city of Juárez, México, where violence against women is perpetrated with impunity, an unlikely defender emerges with a...

Elisabeth and Gudrun are two Swedish divorcées, both over 40, who meet when Elisabeth parks her car on a loading zone and is ticketed by...

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making...

A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.