It's Good to Be Alive

About to finish high school, budding inventor Z.T. dreams of escaping both his sleepy town and his gloomy, widowed Dad, Cole. But his ambitions get a stunning reality check with the arrival of Zack, a raving, 68 year-old drunk claiming to be the boy's older self. Suspiciously unable to recall the exact details, Zack is desperate to avert a single, tiny mistake he claims sent the rest of his years into a tragic spiral. As the two forge a shaky alliance to piece together the old man's fragile memory, Z.T. deals with the pressure from his well-meaning Coach and courts a new love, Delena. After a devastating confession from Z.T.'s father, Zack's visit takes on new gravity. Now one man, split in two by fifty lost years, risks everything to save his future and his past in a perilous race Against Time.

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball. Highlights include a rare interview with legendary pitcher Sandy Koufax.

An impoverished Russian aristocrat spends his days in a fashionable German town waiting for news from Russia about the death of his rich grandmother, so that he can repay his debts to a troubled French adventurer and marry his troubled cousin. His stepdaughter Polina also expects the inheritance.

Every person has his or her own little world. Among the 34 bustling students of classroom 2-1, there are many such worlds. Akio Honjou's world—my world—is filled with passionate talk about last night's anime with Yoshida, Watanabe, and other friends. It's an fun, comfortable place... But, I always wonder. Wonder about the world of Juri Makina, smiling and surrounded by gorgeous friends on the other side of the classroom. One day, I enter her world. But it's not as simple as it sounds.

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it?

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

Marja tries to make ends meet by taking night shifts in a newspaper delivery service, apparently mostly carried out by foreigners. During the day, she sleeps and strives to raise her little daughter as best as she can. As a single parent and lacking a solid income, life is a constant struggle. Things are about to go from bad to worse when she meets her ex-boyfriend whose obsessive demeanour about whether he is the father of Marja´s child will drive her to the edge of sanity.

A newly married meat-eating couple encounter problems after moving into a purely vegetarian society.

A young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.