For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by ...
Fleeing New York City, a failed marriage and a fragile mental history, artist Robert Forrester moves...
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 yea...
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
Raama, who is a devotee of Lord Venkateswara, denounces worldly pleasures including his soon-to-be-b...
A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz...
From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous...
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a p...
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...
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 thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and ho...
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...
The early life of Walt Disney is explored in this family film with an art house twist. Though his re...
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...