Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a litt...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empi...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

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 ...

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

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Co...

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

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she ...

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