An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious pr...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up ...

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, an...

A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernizati...

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric ro...

The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the wor...

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known ...