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.

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 ...

Grace and Michael were once inseparable high school sweethearts, but when Grace went away to college...

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had...

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, som...

Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet...

After her mother's death, a former drug addict Merima is forced to move in with her grandparents to ...

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heis...

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a lov...

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a rel...

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the au...

William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when h...