Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange,...

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive,...

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness...

A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was...

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family...

Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise...

After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a...

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at...