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.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a m...

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

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...

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his uns...

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 ...

Dilemma is an omnibus film, five stories that depict dark side of Jakarta's underbelly. Jakarta's un...

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...