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.

Naturalistic and almost documentary account of the heroin addicts in Belgrade, in the form of a sad ...

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...

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

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

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

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a ve...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the ne...

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the stat...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome ...

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her frien...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who is...