Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.