Desert Flowers

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on hi...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

David Lynch

Cast

Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina ...

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Federico Fellini

Cast

Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs,...

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Gus Van Sant

Cast

River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo

Just released from prison, Jake Blues puts his old band back together with his brother Elwood to save the Catholic home where they were raised.

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

John Landis

Cast

John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Duncan Tucker

Cast

Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan