Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the le...

Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Ge...

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcohol...

The film tells the tragic fate of railroad guard Thiel at the end of the 19th century. Thiel, who sp...

The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or no...

The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman...

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a ...

Laurens works for the German Minister of Finance and is an extremely correct and conscientious perso...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...

After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at t...

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his ...

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might ju...