An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.

Anna, 12, lives with her deaf mother in a loving bond, yet under humble conditions, that are a source of social shame when she begins high school....

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist."...

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the...

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

"Bullenkloster" is the name given to the Ruhr miners' single home. Heinz Lenz has lived there since his divorce from Gisela. When he returned to the...

Two footballers from a soccer club in the Ruhr area upset various marriages and friendships with their lust for sex.

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an...

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison,...

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her...

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's...

In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids,...

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random...

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and...

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes,...

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!