Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing ...

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern Un...

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the de...

Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn ...

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York a...

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each ...

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, e...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who...

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others ...

Two young sisters take on the dangerous task of feeding their mother's sacred ashes to the Fire Serp...

After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Iren...

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's ...

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitut...
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory sea...

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters o...