Life Itself

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg

Cast

Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their ...

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Roland Joffé

Cast

Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new...

Runtime

2h

Director

Matt Williams

Cast

Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tri...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Cast

Moritz Bleibtreu, Chulpan Khamatova, Ato Mukhamedzhanov

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincing...

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Stephen Hopkins

Cast

Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, John Lithgow