When I was a child, my Italian grandmother used to read aloud the letters she received in Chile from her relatives back home. My grandmother is still alive, but she inhabits a dimension where there is only room for her. This is a letter, from London to Latin America, in a last attempt to recover an ancient family rite.
When I was a child, my Italian grandmother used to read aloud the letters she received in Chile from her relatives back home. My grandmother is still alive, but she inhabits a dimension where there is only room for her. This is a letter, from London to Latin America, in a last attempt to recover an ancient family rite.
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important women in their lives.
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
A reluctant summer together transforms into an enchanting adventure when a young boy discovers his aunt's mysterious Sicilian house holds secrets and, perhaps, ancient spirits lurking within its walls.
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old friends.