The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Pér...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is face...
Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from t...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Cha...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...
Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. ...
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...