Shells

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

A 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.

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.

The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?

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

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.