Two young, inexperienced students, dissatisfied with the demands of their teachers and the mentoring of their parents, try to cross illegally into the country - but because they are headed for friendly Poland, nothing happens to them. The story is set in the early 1960s and depicts the heyday of café bands. The two protagonists admire one such band, which plays jazz, misses school and wants to radically change their current life, which they find grey...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...
The (mostly) true story of the greatest jazz drummer you've never heard of who stumbled upon a 16-ye...
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, travels to Belgrade to make some quick cash by marrying some...
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for...
In the wake of his father’s suicide, young record collector Ollie Sway returns to the family lake ho...
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopard...
When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trump...
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous consp...
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...