East of Middle West

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the...

Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother...

It's the end of the summer of 1994 and life is about to change for two boys on a farm.

A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son, this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle...

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't...

A retired detective moves to a rural village in Ireland where he discovers numerous missing children. He takes the investigation into his own hands...

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.