Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.

A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his...

Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is as...

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other e...

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinc...

Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization ...

Zorro and his family live in a messy, run down apartment. Zorro's father is dead and his mother is a...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...

Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powel...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is g...

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, ...

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tic...

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: I...

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and priv...

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...