The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

A father of a family becomes involved in the crime of money laundering. Stressed by illegal businesses and the constant questioning of his wife, he...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends....

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

There are two brothers who couldn't be more different. One, Anno Wilhelm, loves life and seeks to savor it in every way; the other, Julian, would...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange,...

Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and...

It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a...

A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned...

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at...

Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances...

After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the...

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the...

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to...

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness...

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see...

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama...

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings...