During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.
Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
A seventeen year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.
A story that follows as a New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment) apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer) and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possibility dwindles.
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the shadowy life of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar.
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.