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.

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...

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she ad...

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 16 year old girl has come to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. The people in charge...

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...

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

A single father has a fractious relationship with his rebellious teenage daughter. When a lost lette...

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

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of ...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair ...

Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny....

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchroni...

Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a...

A father gives his daughter an unorthodox upbringing on the fringes of the Alaskan underworld in the...