A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensiti...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.

During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the s...

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowner...

Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the ...

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ic...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

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

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her th...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit...