Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make...

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they...

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays him a surprise visit. Later, Eva moves in with...

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the...

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own...

Oliver doesn’t have a family so he steals one.

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his...

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of...

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring...

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last...

Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the...

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her...

James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is...

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the...