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.

An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

A young figure-skater becomes jealous when her brother, also a young figure-skater, falls for anothe...

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...

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

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

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

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...

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 ...

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

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense mur...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...