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An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When…

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when…

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes…

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to…

Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey’s Shadow, may just be a champion.

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the…

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren’t strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining…

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his…

John Russell, disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

At a disused railway station, three men — a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector — discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the…

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the…

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country…

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster’s widow.

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne’er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola…

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.