In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times...

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling...

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And...

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank —...

Set in Australia, Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses, realizes that he has information about the murder of one of his employers. Over...

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

With IF DREAMS WERE LIGHTNING, Ramin Bahrani explores a precarious community ill-equipped to handle catastrophe, and in so doing captures the human...

Reflections from Red Oak, Texas where a teenage son murdered his father.