When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her true talent. But what starts out so promising leads to self-destructive behavior and paralyzing depression that reflects an entire generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, drugs, sex, and high expectations.
Based on the infamous "Baby Jessica" case, A heated custody battle between her biological and adopti...

Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with pas...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f...

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empi...

Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and...

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

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

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirem...