Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire...

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives...

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local...

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many...

While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has...

In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners.

Chinese-Indian historical adventure of Xuan Zang's seventeen-year overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty in the seventh century.

Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shop’s owner. Assayas’ debut...

Based on the popular Japanese series of novels, The Wicked City is about a futuristic Hong Kong on the verge of a take over by the...

Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and...

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three...

Fai, once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a...

A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower...

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental...

An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge...