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 small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her...

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small Cali...

The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of ...

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekel...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

Miss Brill creates a false reality in which she is connected to the other patrons at a local park in...

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver...

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

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of...

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mi...

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when ...

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive...

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her s...

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a...

An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, whi...

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y...

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prom...