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.

About sixteen-year-old Susanne and her relationship with her parents and friends. To make her friend...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular a...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...

In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouse...

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

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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

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

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...