The Reader (2008)
Post WWII Germany Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war crime trial
Billy Elliot (2000)
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family
The Hours (2002)
The story of how the novel Mrs Dalloway affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives
Trash (2014)
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
A nine year old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001