A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened ...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of cra...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

Bianca is a young woman in Renaissance Italy who is promised in an arranged marriage. She inherits a...

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses....

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it da...

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for hel...

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.