During a fragile Belfast cease-fire, a poetic repo man and a dreamer hilariously navigate sectarian divides and the chaotic pursuit of love and lust in a city still simmering with its past.
In mid-20th century Detroit, a single mother's youthful dreams turn to regret as her children, Maureen and Jules, navigate poverty, racial tension, and violence in a fight for survival.
Thom Jones's characters, from ex-fighters to lost wanderers, show how the human heart, even when battered and sick, holds onto life with brutal strength.
In the decaying post-war South, a family's legacy of destructive love unravels into betrayal, infidelity, and the tragic suicide of its most luminous daughter.
After God dies as a Dinka woman in Darfur, humanity faces chaos, worshipping children, fighting over free will, and grappling with its unchanged flaws.
Four homeless friends, united by the magic of cinema and a winning lottery ticket, embark on a poignant journey to reclaim their pasts and redefine 'home' with the help of an unlikely journalist.
A lonely archivist's field assignment to a remote island library takes a bizarre turn when she discovers an unexpected, primal connection with its only other inhabitant: a bear.
In the working-class streets of Lowell, a young French-Canadian boy's imagination creates the mysterious Dr. Sax, a guide through adolescent fears and apocalyptic dreams.
An unmasked Cambridge spy, an art expert to the Queen, faces his past, revealing a life of deception and desire. He betrayed his country, family, and himself, searching for the truth of his downfall.
Three mixed-race siblings, raised with music and a dream of transcending identity, find their lives separating as one becomes an activist, another faces racial stereotypes in opera, and the third tries to hold their fractured family together.
A fiercely independent mother and her observant daughter chase the elusive American dream from rural Wisconsin to the glitz of Los Angeles, leaving a trail of unpaid bills and unspoken resentments in their wake.
Imprisoned for protest songs, a Burmese dissident spends seven years in solitary confinement. He uses Buddhist patience to connect with his jailers and forms a freeing friendship with a young orphan within the brutal prison walls.
In the stifling prairie town of Manawaka, a repressed Sunday school teacher embarks on a secret summer affair, forcing her to confront her own desires and her mother's judgment.
In the shadow of post-war corporate ambition, a suburban husband's gray flannel suit becomes a straitjacket, forcing him to confront his wartime past and the emptiness of his present to reclaim his family and his soul.
William Carlos Williams's "Paterson" explores the city's history, the poet's life, and imagination's power, following the Passaic River from source to sea.
On New Year's Eve, a porter is taken by the spirits of the chimes to see a grim future, making him confront social injustice and rediscover his faith in humanity.
In a quiet Croatian village scarred by war, an old hunter's peaceful life changes when a British family arrives, making him confront his past and the town's hidden guilt as a mosaic reveals forgotten horrors.
A sixth-grader’s mail-order ambitions explode into a nationwide corporate empire of dubious deals and disaffected adults, revealing the farcical side of American business through colliding voices.
