Ivan Ilyich is a social climbing magistrate in 19th century Russia. After suffering a seemingly innocuous injury, his life enters a tailspin. He starts questioning his relationships, his work, the very meaning of life. As he deteriorates, he begins to grasp how the good life ought to have been, and how he had never truly lived it.
Nash Nørgaard
Ivan Ilyich
Phee Simpson
Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina
Gordon Stackhouse
Gerasim
Finn Tyson
Pyotr Ivanovich
Alex Levin
Doctor Rabushkin
Ivan Ilyich is a social climbing magistrate in 19th century Russia. After suffering a seemingly innocuous injury, his life enters a tailspin. He starts questioning his relationships, his work, the very meaning of life. As he deteriorates, he begins to grasp how the good life ought to have been, and how he had never truly lived it.
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his reputation.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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.
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
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 couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.