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.

After five years, the German occupation of Norway ends on 8 May 1945. The rebuilding of the nation c...

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by H...

Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip wai...

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, e...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of ...

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who...

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a ...

Twenty years after walking out on his family and bride on his wedding day, Jacob Hansen returns to t...

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look a...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...

Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly disc...

A man planning to commit a mass shooting at a rave is befriended by an eccentric group of partiers a...

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka wa...

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's mos...