The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon...

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he...

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.