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.

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of h...

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loo...

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her frien...

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemie...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...

Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted l...

Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in th...

Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his o...

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...

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. Howeve...

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