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.

The disturbed young loner Paul is looking for his place in life in the urban 80s metropolis Night Ci...

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of h...

A small girl goes blind when her mother is murdered.

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who con...

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searchi...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of sca...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her per...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them...