The Rose Seller (1998)

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José's studies easier...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.

赤線地帯にある特殊飲食店「夢の里」の主人は、国会に上程されている売春禁止法案が可決されたら売春婦はみな投獄されると、女たちを慌てさせる。より江はなじみ客と結婚するが、夫婦生活が破綻し舞い戻ってきた。一人息子のために働くゆめ子だったが、その息子から縁を切られ発狂してしまった。やすみは自分に貢いでくれた客に殺されかけた。ラジオが売春禁止法案の否決を伝えると、「夢の里」は再び客の呼び込みを始めた。そしてそこには、店を辞めたやすみに代わり、下働きだったしず子の姿があった。

大石久子は昭和3年、新任教師として瀬戸内海にある小豆島の分校に赴任した。久子が受け持つことになった一年生は十二人で、みな澄んだ瞳をしていた。やがて久子は本校へ転任することになった。しかし貧しい村の教え子たちは、一人として望み通り進学することができなかった。戦争をはさんで島の分校に戻った久子は、そこでかつての教え子たちと再会する。

楽しくなるはずの日曜日のデートでことごとく厳しい現実に遭遇して落ち込む恋人たちが、最後にはそれでも明るい未来に希望を抱き絆を強める姿を巨匠・黒澤明監督が描いた瑞々しい感動編。とある日曜日にデートを計画した雄造と昌子。でも、手持ちのお金はたった35円。お金がないなりになんとか工夫して楽しいデートをと考えるのだが、そんな二人に容赦ない現実が待っていた。すっかり惨めな気持ちになって帰路につく二人だったが…。

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hunger of Barbara Flores, an eight-year-old Argentinean girl. Buenos Aires, Washington, the IMF, the World Bank and Davos; corruption and the international bureaucratic lack of interest.

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is tacked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan.

大正7年に東北の農村で生まれた松木とめは、23歳で製糸工場の女工して働き始めた。しかし地主の本田家へ嫁入りさせられ、出征する俊三に抱かれ妊娠する。娘の信子を出産したとめは本田家を出て製糸工場に戻り係長と関係を結ぶようになるが、会社をクビになってしまう。とめは単身上京し、売春を始める。コールガール組織を作るまでになったとめは、故郷から父親と娘を呼び寄せた。

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.

Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.