Films like Story of Women
France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury, and lives her o...
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The Old Gun
Film · 1975 · also drama and historyIn Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife a...
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Vivre Sa Vie
Film · 1962 · also dramaTwelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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The Glorias
Film · 2020 · also dramaAn equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throu...
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Sometimes in April
Film · 2005 · also drama and historyTwo brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Escape from Sobibor
Film · 1987 · also dramaThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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Triumph of the Spirit
Film · 1989 · also drama and historyDuring World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake...
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The Baby of Mâcon
Film · 1993 · also drama and historyIn 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. Th...
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A Love to Hide
Film · 2005 · also dramaA young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while a...
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The Brothers Karamazov
Film · 1958 · also drama and historyRyevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the...
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Shooting Dogs
Film · 2006 · also drama and historyTwo westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the...
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