No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...
In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of th...
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...
A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to ...
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...