Cultural Difference Movies

A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...

Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant...

A cursed blue-eyed boy seeks love in a remote mountain ruled by superstition.

In a Portuguese apartment building, two couples share the same structure, yet live in entirely different universes. Iara and Lusa, a Brazilian...

A modern day 'Good Samaritan' story. A man late to pick up his daughter gets a flat in the middle of nowhere. He doesn't have the tools to fix his...

A woman introduces her Chinese dad to her American Jewish boyfriend and manipulates their language barrier to keep everyone happy.

This documentary looks at the conception, design and live shows of The Wall performed by Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981. It features in-depth 1980s era...

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a...

Documentary about births around the different cultures and regions of the world.

A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor...

Sining brings his American boyfriend, Patrick, back to China when he goes to visit his family. Everyone's attitude towards Patrick changes once...

Comedian Jean-Paul Bolzec has just performed in Azerbaijan. On the way back to the airport, the taxi breaks down. Bolzec is abandoned on a desert...

In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture...

Ushi Hirosaki has to marry according to Japanese tradition before her 30th birthday. Because time is running out, her family decides she has to marry...

Discipline and productivity are more regimented in Japan than in many other parts of the world. For the Japanese, survival means doing things...

In a family of true-blue Neapolitans—or rather, die-hard Neapolitan purists—something incredible happens: a baby girl is born who speaks...

American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert...