An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

After librarian Isolde attempts suicide, she leaves her politician husband for a younger student with a dark past. Isolde's former husband, however,...

Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from...

Father and son 'minutemen' patrol the American/Mexican border near their home in Nogales, Arizona.

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as...

Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he...

At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Her parents do not see things...

Two friends from Odesa try to compose a video message to their pals, emigrants to the United States. One of them rents his apartment to a tricky girl...

In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and...

In early 20th century Vietnam, a nobleman scorns everything Western after his beautiful fiance dies in an auto wreck and forces the poor villagers to...

On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small...

Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new...

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

After their mother dies of an overdose, two sisters hide her body to avoid being separated by the foster system, but as their secret threatens to...

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look...

A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and...

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also...

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and...