When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, thro...

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunti...

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and...

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's ...

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...

In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the...

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...

In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North Americ...

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d...

After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her ow...

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome ...

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Holly...

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest c...

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scho...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...

A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.