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.

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...

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

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

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wi...
Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in t...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...

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

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