Lazarus' Whims

"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after...

Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants...

A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child,...

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...

A few minutes in the life of two people: a young woman who has her whole life in front of her and an old man ill with asthma who has only one more...

Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son.

Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a...

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is...

A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.

This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life.