Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impair...
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must wor...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of ...
John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he...
Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with ...
A determined 16-year-old with albinism makes it her mission to become a professional model in her ho...
In a bid to recapture the carefree days of their youth, four friends decide to escape their daily ro...
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about th...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postc...
Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous busi...
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to ...
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of h...
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from...
Listless teen, Tyler, spends his days clocking into work and waiting for purpose to find him in his ...
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best wa...