When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

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

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton...

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a rec...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a w...