2024-09-16
A divinity student who questions his calling gets a lesson in faith but risks his future when he decides to help a fallen woman, a decision that ultimately leads to tragedy.
A boy tries to return a book to a friend who could get expelled from school without it. Babek Ahmed Poor; Ahmed Ahmed Poor; Kheda Barech Defai.
Lyrical drama about a troubled middle-aged man who decides to commit suicide and drives through rural Iran trying to find someone who will bury him. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, s
A dedicated schoolmaster marries a dance-hall girl who dies on her way to entertain Allied troops. Subsequently dedicating his life to her memory, he educates two generations of students who were lucky enough to have him for a teacher and a friend.
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting fri
Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic tale stars Best Actor nominee Spencer Tracy as a Cuban fisherman who must overcome numerous obstacles in his attempt to haul in a giant fish. Hemingway's wife, Mary, played the shocked tourist at the end of the film.
Neil Simon adapted his Broadway hit about two elderly ex-vaudevillians who have been feuding for years but agree to put aside their differences for a TV reunion. In his first starring screen role in 35 years, George Burns took home a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Simon's screenplay was Oscar nomimated.
Sam Peckinpah's elegy for the Old West is set in the early 1900s, where two former lawmen are hired to transport gold from a mining camp to a town bank, and one of them develops a notion to steal the gold for himself.
An elderly couple leave their small coastal village in southern Japan to visit their self-engrossed, married children in Tokyo, where they find disappointment and tragedy.