A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
A young recruit in Viet Nam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt lead by a seasoned US Marshall.
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.