A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.
After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.
Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.
A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.