
A mother tries to ease her terminally ill son through his final days of treatment, using a classic bedtime tale.


6.1A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
5.8Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
6.8A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
6.4Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
7.2A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
6.9On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.
6.3It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
5.9After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
6.1A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
6.2After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
7.5A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
7.3Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
6.1Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
5.8A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
6.6Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
6.3Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
7.2After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
6.4The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.