Misery Movies

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity,...

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the...

Nebi Surreli lives in poverty along with his mother. Doing small jobs to earn a living, he also helps his town's communist unit.

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their...

An injured Andrew ends up drawn into the complicated world of Rebecca, a solitary writer whose obsession with a divine mythological character has...

Alone on the moon, a dying astronaut faces his past regrets and lost love as the earth sets over the horizon.

In her small apartment, a woman receives an unusual visit from the man she claims to miss.

Mexico, 1940's. Fernando, a thirteen-year-old boy who lives in a rural town, will face uncertainty, treason and tragedy.

A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself....