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.

A student whose parents died in the Gujarat pogrom receives an assignment on the same topic at his u...

After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight a...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins...

The inspirational true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 eac...

About sixteen-year-old Susanne and her relationship with her parents and friends. To make her friend...

In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ic...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas ...