A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband...

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with pas...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...