A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a...
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of h...
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Departmen...
Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the f...
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his...
In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family ...
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide t...
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i...
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
Best friends set out to conquer Hollywood but are ambushed when one of them is diagnosed with bipola...
Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexic...
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. ...
Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later...
The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after t...
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other...
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa...
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...