In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

A young girl and her brother come of age at their great-grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1940s.

A road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.

A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.

Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.

The Dempsey Sisters is a movie about the power of believing in a dream, the force of a family bond, and being willing to give up a sure thing for the one thing that makes life worth living overall.

John Sayles' murder-mystery explores interpersonal and interracial tensions in Rio County, Texas. Sam Deeds is the local sheriff who is called to investigate a 40-year-old skeleton found in the desert....As Sam delves deeper into the town's dark secrets, he begins to learn more about his father, the legendary former sheriff Buddy Deeds, who replaced the corrupt Charlie Wade. While Sam puzzles out the long-ago events surrounding the mystery corpse, he also longs to rekindle a romance with his old high-school flame. Sayles' complex characters are brought together as the tightly-woven plot finally draws to its dramatic close.

After her abusive husband leaves, Monica asks her neighbor to look after her son while she's at work. Mildred's angry daughter's just moved out, so she's happy to have JJ.

Sean Casey is the newest member of the District Attorney's office and he is close to uncovering a police scandal that might involve his father Liam, who works for the N.Y.P.D. Then his father is critically wounded in a stake-out, Sean is chosen to prosecute the case.family relationshipsmetaphoric titlemanhattanitalian americantrailer95 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

A small-town Southern boy named Marty Preston must rescue a young beagle from his abusive owner, Judd Travers.

Mary Beth is a marine biologist who gets annoyed when a dog named Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless, she is intrigued when he makes best friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with his owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.

The relationship of the teenager Fay Delussey with her family is deeply affected when her beloved father Don has multiple sclerosis and her mother Ann starts a love affair. Her teacher John invites Fay to perform the important role of Lady Macbeth in a school play and her schoolmate Monica Meldrum is jealous of her with the choice. Soon strange events happen to Fay and she believes that Monica is the responsible for the acts. But her father discloses a family secret about his ghost daughter.

A drifter enters a small town looking for employment. While working at the local cattle ranch, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Kitty and becomes involved in a deadly yet erotic love triangle.

1921. In search of a new start and the American dream, Ewa Cybulska and her sister Magda sail to New York from their native Poland. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, she quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution. And then one day, Ewa encounters Bruno's cousin, the debonair magician Orlando. He sweeps Ewa off her feet and quickly becomes her only chance to escape the nightmare in which she finds herself.

Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on a rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.

When 15-year-old Tina becomes pregnant, her parents must grapple not only with their own current marital crisis, but also their opposing views on adoption.

The film tells the story of Russian émigré, and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall, and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.bullyingimmigrantperiod dramatimeframe 1880sship136 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Four high school friends that grew up together in a tiny Texas town, plan to leave for the big city the day after graduation. Over a week's time, their backstory and present day realities collide to determine how their plans play ...

Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. When two homeless boys from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by Jo and her husband, the boys learn both academic and life lessons they won't ever for...

The story of Abraham Lincoln's childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to immortality.

The day starts out fine. It's Mr. Wilson's birthday and guess who shows up uninvited? Dennis Mitchell and a few of his bug friends. After getting a cake in the face and falling down the stairs in a wagon, Mr. Wilson wishes Dennis had another old man to bother. His prayers are answered when Dennis' grandfather, Mr. Johnson, comes over announcing he's going to move in with them. So once again all is fine until Mr. Wilson finds out he's getting old, and Mr. Johnson can do everything better than him. One day at a carnival, Mr. Wilson meets the Professor and his assistant, Sylvester, who claim to be specialists in making people younger--for a price. It's a scam but Mr. Wilson is too naive to know. The first few attempts at decreasing Mr. Wilson's age fail thanks to Dennis. Mr. Wilson tries to do things better than Mr. Johnson when he follows them to the swimming pool but fails. But it's Dennis who catches the swindlers at their own game when Mr. Wilson wants to sell his house and the Professor and Sylvester show up disguised as plumbers, electricians, realty men, and exterminators and make large holes in Mr. Wilson's house--not to mention his check book, but it's Dennis to the rescue and everyone is happy. Sometime later, Mr. Johnson takes Dennis to the Grand Canyon in his motor home. The mistake is that it is parked awful close to the canyon and its wheels are stopped with a rock, which Dennis collects while rock hunting. Back at home, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson watch Mr. Johnson getting rescued from the canyon and Mr. Wilson proclaims, "He's a menace!"

After lightening strikes Flight 109, the only chance for survival is a young girl.

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.

A young singer struggles with his sexuality and the treatment of others while coming of age in a small Southern Baptist community.

An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.

When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him, the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog.family relationshipsuncle niece relationshipuncle nephew relationshipservantroyalty7 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

A business executive's life is turned upside-down when his wife contracts a debilitating disease.