Elena Karam

Up the Down Staircase — Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a d

America America — A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to Ameri

Love with the Proper Stranger — Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived

Ladybug Ladybug — The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, wa

F.I.S.T. — Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. A