Sam's Town

Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

A 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.

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival of Agatha, the scarred and estranged pyromaniac daughter.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

A doctor dealing with the aftermath of his son's death tries to help a troubled young man.

A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

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

A 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.

After 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.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.

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, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.