A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in...

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between...

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or...

An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.

A remake of the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock classic about two longtime friends who attempt to prove that they committed the perfect murder by hosting a...

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some...

The film is based on a 2003 novel by the same name, written by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. The main character is the young boy Georg who one...

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new...

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher,...

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize...

Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is...

A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly...

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his...

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened,...

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.