A mother of a boy with muscular dystrophy is diagnosed with uterine cancer. A daughter of a prima donna decides to chase her dreams, to the ire of her mother. A woman with breast cancer asks her son to find her first love.

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A mysterious exterminator falls in love with two women who live in a distinctive wine-producing regi...

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...

Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care ...

After disappearing from a small Polish town, a mother discovers her 4-year old daughter, Ola, has be...

An undercover cop lets his job get personal while on an underground assignment.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of C...

Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman ...

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c...

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil...

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.