Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet “good little boy” always obeying the rules,…

Wanda Pratt works tirelessly to raise three children, including future NBA basketball player Kevin Durant.

The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent man.

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving…

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband’s well-being while he’s incarcerated – leading her…

Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to…

Devil’s Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik’s post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been…

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.

Nick comes to New York to temporarily live with a jazz musician friend of his late father’s named Cal while his mom is in rehab. During his time in the…

A harsh if ultimately optimistic depiction of life in the unforgiving Hebrides, that includes documentary footage to add to the sense of realism. A woman weathers the conscription of her…

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting…