A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named 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. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

A college student learns that he is soon becoming a father—a single father at that. He wants to fall...

On his final delivery of the day, a carefree pizza delivery guy arrives at an unfamiliar, desolate a...

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his ...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage ru...

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

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...