Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city. After a short absence he writes his people that he has secured a good position, is saving money, and will be home before long. A year or two later he arrives in town and on his way to his home passes the old saloon he used to patronize. He cannot resist the temptation, and goes in. He falls in with a lot of bad fellows and is robbed. Ashamed to go home, he ships on board a sailing vessel.
Two teenagers search for escape and solitude in inner-city London. But even as they find their momen...
Artemio is a photojournalist who portrays the murder of a sex worker he knows and begins a search to...
A teenage girl roams the streets trying to buy alcohol. Then she gets desperate...
As Alex struggles with disturbing hallucinations, his wife Vera tries to help, until they both exper...
A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who...
Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.
A nervous job candidate is forced to show much more than a positive attitude to save the life of her...
A young man digs a well by hand in a dry area. His brother dies; there is a funeral. The man sleeps ...
Ben wants nothing more than to have his estranged 15-year-old daughter, Victoria, back in his life. ...
An adolescent dreamer struggles to find closure after the untimely death of his older brother.
Aspects of a London day, including prostitutes on street corners, a striptease show and the 2i's Cof...
James Brieson, a wealthy stockbroker, ruins Hutch Valiant, who soon after dies of the shock. Valiant...
"Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father, "Handsome Harry," was disowned by the proud Dawley family of...
The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. S...
Lois Fox, upon whose shoulder is branded a Chinese idiograph resembling the letters "A. Y.," is resc...
Rosarita, a young relative of the powerful Doña Perfecta in the small Spanish village of Orbajosa, h...
Kieran is making hard cash from a con he's recently developed: blackmailing married men out of a few...
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves wi...