To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang,
Martin Scorsese,
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.
A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.
A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.