Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose has the chance to use his skills and for once in his life, finds himself in the spotlight, as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals. As their coach, Mr. Alvarado, teaches his students the meaning of perseverance and team effort in the face of adversity, Jose discovers his own strengths and uses them to bring his broken family together.

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

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

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

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

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

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around t...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they de...

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wi...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but fi...