Sambizanga: Set during the Angolan War of Independence, a young women makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portugese authorities. Prisioneros de la tierra: Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a jungle yerba mate plantation under the brutal foreman Kohner-- a situation made tenser by the fact that both Kohner and a worker named Podeley love Andrea, the...

Two girls on the street: Two upwardly moblie working women-one a musician in an all-female band, the other a bricklayer- join forces in their attempts to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing fortunes, the advance of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love. Kalpana: A dancer is determined to open a cultural center and breathe new life into India's traditional artistic forms. Meanwhile, the evident adoration between...

Lucía: Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s. After the curfew: A hero of revolution returns to civilian life to find the new society very different from the ideals he fought for.

Pixote: The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs. Dos monjes: In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them. Javier, a consumptive musician, fell in love with and was betrothed to Anita. When his old friend...