Empathetic Movies

A widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life and finds more than she bargained for in Seoul.

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is...

In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar hardships but lead far different lives. While...

Pedro earns a living in chat rooms. He transforms himself into NeonBoy in front of the webcam. Slowly, this young man dips his fingers into pots of...

A group of Chinese refugees and straggler soldiers, led by a machinist, defend their mountain town, "Gezhi," against a surprise attack by Japanese...

RJ and Chris were both born and raised in the Mormon Church. Both have pretty girlfriends, were Eagle Scouts at a young age and have perfect academic...

Concert held on August 4, 5 and 6, 2008 at the Nippon Budōkan hall in Tokyo to commemorate both the Japanese theatrical release of Ponyo (2008)...

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This...

Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.

In Brussels, a construction worker crosses paths with a bryologist.

A bounty hunter in present day, learns about his previous life as a legendary warrior, when fate unites him with a mutant kid.

A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.

Picking up five years after the doomed romance between Mormon missionaries RJ and Chris, though their lives have taken radically different paths, the...

Grace, a deaf woman from Lebanon, just got her first job as a graphic designer at a travel agency in London. However, her new colleagues don't know...

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become...

A cameraman for an absurdist public access television show gets an unexpected call from his estranged brother.

This moving documentary chronicles the last year in the life of Robert Eads, a trans man dying of ovarian cancer. We're introduced to several...

When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests...

January 1st, 2003. When Brazil celebrates President Lula′s historic investiture, two middle-class, provincial families gather in an old, poorly...

Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião,...