God's Ears (2008)

A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

This is a contemporary story set in Perth Western Australia . Anthony Argo is a young Italian/Australian boxer, being pushed to the limit by his Sicilian father-trainer, Joe,. Joe wants Anthony to achieve the success in the ring that he was denied as a young man. When Anthony meets Kate, he begins to see his life - and the role violence - in a different light.

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.

A mute female dancer who wows audiences in club competitions but can't get Broadway jobs because of her handicap, develops a "voice" when a young scientist invents a device that allows her to make music via her dance movements.

いつもつるんで、学校に行っては問題を起こしていた18歳のマサルとシンジ。ある日、カツアゲした高校生の助っ人にノックアウトされてしまったマサルは、ボクシングに目覚め、ジム通いをはじめる。付き合いでシンジもジムに入門し、ふたりはボクシングの練習に没頭する。ある夜、ヤクザに絡まれたふたりは、若頭に助けられるが、その迫力にマサルは感動する。高校生活も終わり、いつの間にかシンジはボクシング界の逸材に成長していた。だが、ジムにはマサルの姿はなかった……。

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.

Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

自由奔放な青年が重度の自閉症の兄と出会って心を開き、忘れていた愛情を取り戻して行く過程を描いた心暖まる感動のロード・ムービー。高級外車のディーラーをしているチャーリーの元に自分を勘当した父の訃報が届く。遺産目当てに故郷に戻った彼だったが遺産の300万ドルは見た事もない自閉症の兄、レイモンドの手に渡る事を聞かされる。なんとか金を物にしようとチャーリーは施設にいるレイモンドを誘拐まがいに連れ出し、ロスに戻ろうとするのだったが……。

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

大恐慌時代に活躍した実在のボクサー、ジム・ブラドックの伝説を映画化した感動の物語。貧困のなか、家族を養うためだけに戦い、ヘヴィ級チャンピオンとなった小市民を、巨匠ロン・ハワード監督が情感たっぷりに描く。迫力満点のファイト・シーンの撮影も見事。

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

ケヴィン・ベーコン主演の青春ドラマ。ロックもダンスパーティも禁じられているアメリカ中西部のある小さな町に、都会から一人の青年が転校してくる。彼は自分たちの自由を取り戻すべく、仲間を集めて大人たちへの逆襲を開始する。

In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.

1940年代、アラバマ州で生まれたフォレスト・ガンプは、知能指数こそ人に劣るが、母親にたっぷりの愛情を注がれて育ち、優しいハートと走る能力は誰にも負けない男性に成長していく。そんなフォレストは、ただひとり彼に理解を示してくれた幼なじみの女性ジェニーの愛を信じる一方、ベトナムの戦場に出征するなど、1950年代に始まるアメリカの歴史の大きな動きの中で、図らずも波瀾万丈の半生を送ることになる。

フィラデルフィアの下町。無名ボクサーのロッキーは本業だけでは食えず、借金の取りたてを請け負って日銭を稼いでいた。そんなある日、世界チャンピオンのアポロが気まぐれで無名選手にチャンスを与えようと言い出し、無作為に選んだロッキーを挑戦者に指名する。降って湧いたチャンスを得て、ロッキーは想いを寄せる女性エイドリアンに、15ラウンド最後まで戦いぬくことで自分の愛を証明すると約束する。

大恐慌時代に活躍した実在のボクサー、ジム・ブラドックの伝説を映画化した感動の物語。貧困のなか、家族を養うためだけに戦い、ヘヴィ級チャンピオンとなった小市民を、巨匠ロン・ハワード監督が情感たっぷりに描く。迫力満点のファイト・シーンの撮影も見事。