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.

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

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...

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...

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

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world...

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfi...

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive ...

Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage,...

New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheava...

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of ...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold betw...