After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.

A rich teenager runs away from home and joins a group of street hustlers who go on a road trip to fu...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

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

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...

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

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...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

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

In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...

Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix...

Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Ha...

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after th...

A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son – two acts ...

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

A night in the woods, and its aftermath, helps Otter with a major life decision. He's a high school ...