Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried...

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act...

The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself...

In late 1960s New York City, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained...

Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life...

Five friends in their 20ies try to make it as artists while struggling with psychological disorders and disregulated lives. Abandoned to themselves,...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems...

Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it...

After several years together, William and Cecilie break up. To treat the sorrow with love the same night they decide to do the drug MDMA together....

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters...

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their...

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

At the age of nine, Rebeca is sold by her grandmother to the bookseller who ran Rocinha. Disputed by bicheiros and drug dealers, the community is...

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her...

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring...

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.