The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking...

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

It is the year 2020 and the Corona pandemic has Germany firmly in its grip. Thus, the red-light business must also close its doors and the sex...

South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed...

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother...

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

The sextuplets attend a high school class reunion. There, they see all their former classmates who have become "proper" adults with company jobs. ...

A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having...

The children of "Happy Valley" were victimized for years, by a key member of the legendary Penn State college football program. But were Jerry...

In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the...

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee...

Edvard Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death: he suffers the loss of his sister and mother, while enduring serious illness himself, almost...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...