Barbara, a young woman consumed by despair, contemplates suicide, while a man she meets in a church and a married couple struggle to persuade her that life is still worth…

A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen…

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she…

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny – and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young…

On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by…

A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in the backwoods of rural North Carolina. If the state finds…

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.