Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Young Oliver Twist runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.