A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage ru...

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his ...

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...

A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the po...

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, t...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight s...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb...

The wicked Badiyanu has come to capture all Earth's children to gain enough power to absorb the plan...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Desperate to be free from her drunken, unloving mother Diane, the beautiful, scheming young Mini sed...

Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and ...

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...

Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotectiv...

This is the story of teenage girl Steph, who is brought up by her fiery aunt Jude after her pregnant...