Ayiva makes the difficult journey from Burkina Faso through Algeria and Libya and eventually reaches Italy.

The Face of an Angel is a 2014 British psychological thriller directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Paul Viragh.

In Northern California, a preteen boy, Tim, throws a doll into a river.

Gomorrah (Italian: Gomorra) is a 2008 Italian crime film directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviano, who also collaborated in the screenplay.

Philosophy professor Walter Zarrow is wounded during a mugging.

This story takes place in an impoverished district outside Buenos Aires.

The story takes place in Upstate New York during the 1970s. 14-year-old Joe Henry has spent his life in an abusive household.

I'm Your Woman is a 2020 American neo-noir crime film directed by Julia Hart from a screenplay by Hart and Jordan Horowitz.

The action of the film takes place in 1978, in a fictional town called Acqua Traverse in Southern Italy, during the hottest summer of the century and the infamous Years of Lead.

Rick Wershe is a struggling single father living in 1984 Detroit during the height of the crack epidemic and war on drugs.

Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a director working on a social-realist film about a factory strike called Noi siamo qui (We Are Here), starring American actor Barry Huggins (John Turturro) as the factory owner.

The Traitor (Italian: Il traditore) is a 2019 internationally co-produced biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito.

The film begins in medias res with an armed gang chasing after an escaped chicken in a favela called the Cidade de Deus ("City of God").

Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan.

The Hate U Give is a 2018 American drama film co-produced and directed by George Tillman Jr.

Marcello is a small, mild man, living in a dilapidated Rome suburb; he owns a dog grooming shop, and divides his days between his work, his daughter, Alida, who lives with her mother from whom he is separated, and socialising with other locals.

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut.

The movie is about an 18-year-old boy who has been orphaned after his father died from a truck crash while he was in his usual work.

In the mid-1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, greasers are a gang of tough, low-income working-class teens.

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