Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

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A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...

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...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lo...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns b...

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekv...

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

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the ...

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

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a sho...