After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses h...
For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When...
The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip i...
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many...
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce oce...
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and...
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war ...
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...
Two African-American teenage boys are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their parents. The two ...
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later ...
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. ...
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society,...
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...
For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time...