Filters Showing 8,761– 8,780 of 9,064 movies
A first generation Indian-American turns 30 without finding a wife. He is relentlessly pressure by his parents to let them handle it — 35 years earlier they spent 10 minutes together before they were betrothed in an arranged marriage. He never told his parents about the woman he just broke up with because she wasn't Indian but he finally surrenders to their wishes.
Autobiography of the Roman emperor written as a series of letters to his nephew, Marcus Aurelius.
Silas Hardoon, a Baghdad Jew, immigrates to Shanghai, becomes a kingpin in the opium trade, and helps transform Shanghai from an obscure backwater city to a major international city.
This is the story of how several strangers interact on a single night in New York City, including a stock broker whose "re-proposal" has just been rejected by his wife of 10 years.
The story of six friends variously struggling to make ends meet in the wake of a shipyard closure several years earlier in a depressed northern Spanish coastal city. The portrait of their friendship contrasted with their family lives is ultimately poignant and bittersweet.
- 1 / 5.0
A young doctor saves the life of a little boy only to find out a few years later that the life he saved was that of a brilliant killer. The doctor must then track down the young killer and solve a larger conspiracy.
Set in medieval times, a brotherhood of mice are sworn to protect the common folk. Or rodent, as it were.
Ten years in the classroom have turned a one-time teacher of the year into a defeated, bitter man. A bet from a new teacher to get three of his most problematic students into a top college might be just the thing to restore his love of the profession.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, ten-year-old Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor. Karen’s investigation reveals Anka’s life in Nazi Germany and how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
Ronda Rousey faces challenges in and outside the Octagon from the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old to the intensity of her judo training, battles with love, and her meteoric rise to fame to become the "toughest woman on Earth."
A roadtrip to Memphis is undertaken by a wheelchair-bound former singer and her friend. Both have faced tragedy in their lives, and each becomes the other's chief support.
A film about why life can feel like it's passing us by. Chronicling the unraveling of Steven Bassem (Saleh), a valet driver for a trendy Los Angeles restaurant caught between his dead-end job and the demands of his Arab-American immigrant family.
- 1 / 5.0
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive.
Depicts one woman’s quest to reimburse Holocaust survivors who were swindled out of their heir’s insurance policies by a European insurance company.
A man (Aaron Eckhart) takes a job at the mental institution where his novelist father (Nick Nolte) spent his last days. While working there, he meets a schizophrenic (Ian McKellen) who is somehow connected to his dad's writing.
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds—and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?
A young, abandoned boy, unaware of his past, finds the family he’s been looking for and fulfills his destiny.
Centers on Rembrandt van Rijn's creation of what is considered by many his most famoust painting, "The Nightwatch," and the impact it has on his private life.
Based on the true story of a Manhanttan family that attempts to use as few resources as possible. Not to be confused with the 2009 documentary on the same subject.
This is the story of Noi (Tomas Lemarquis), an intelligent 17-year-old boy who dreams of escaping from his hometown in the remote fjord regions of Northern Iceland with Iris, a girl from the city who works at the local gas station, because he is bored and frustrated with the limitations that small town life impose on him. Meanwhile, the locals perceive Noi's lack of ambition within their framework as a sign that he's just their next village idiot in training...