Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.
Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who ...
Sick of the neglect he receives from his mom and dad, a young boy leaves home and travels the world in search of new parents.
A father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province.
With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so ...
Death and violence anger a 12-year-old drug courier, who puts his employer's against each other.
On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an old cupboard from his brother and a little Indian figure made of plastic from his best ...
A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
A father recounts a dark period of his childhood when he and his little brother lived in the suburbs.
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's ...
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, ...
Environmental protection agent Jack Taggart is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who are dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region. They also killed his fellow...
In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment ...
A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.
A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor.
Gordon Bombay is forced to withdraw from the minor hockey league with a knee injury. Much to his surprise, he is given the job of coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games in ...
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.