Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.
"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena...
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a...
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive a...
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened ...
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...