Horton Foote

Uma cinebiografia da "Imperatriz dos Blues", Bessie Smith. O caminho que a levou de uma infância simples no Tennessee ao estrelato como uma das principais divas da música norte-americana.

Carrie Watts vive com o filho, Ludie, e com a pretensiosa nora, Jessie Mae. Sem poder conduzir mais e proibida de viajar sozinha, ela anseia por liberdade e implora ao filho para levá-la a visitar a sua cidade natal, Bountiful.

A vida de diversos moradores de uma pequena cidade é transformada com a chegada de um estranho, que tem um plano controverso para salvar a comunidade. Cada um dos alegres cidadãos tentará encontrar formas de se reinventar.

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.

One of the most frequently dramatized of all William Faulkner stories, Old Man is based on a section of Faulkner's 1939 novel The Wild Palms. Set during the cataclysmic 1927 Mississippi river flood, the story revolves around the curious relationship between prison convict J.J. Taylor (Arliss Howard) and a young, pregnant woman named Addie (Jeanne Tripplehorn). Pressed into service to rescue victims of the flood, Taylor finds Addie stuck in a tree, her husband nowhere in sight. Managing to get Addie down, Taylor finds himself cut off from the other rescuers, and thus is solely responsible for the future wellbeing of the stranded woman and her unborn child.

Still bitter toward his stepfather, a man reunites with his mother and sister following a long estrangement.

Still bitter toward his stepfather, a man reunites with his mother and sister following a long estrangement.

Still bitter toward his stepfather, a man reunites with his mother and sister following a long estrangement.

Dois vagabundos, um deles grandalhão lento e gentil, tentam ganhar dinheiro trabalhando nos campos durante a Depressão para que possam realizar seus sonhos. Dois companheiros de viagem, George e Lennie, vagam pelo país durante a Depressão, sonhando com uma vida melhor. Então, quando parece que podem conseguir algo, a chance é arrancada de suas mãos. O filme é fiel ao romance de Steinbeck, explorando questões de força, fraqueza, utilidade, realidade e utopia, mostrando a Califórnia de Steinbeck vividamente.

Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of major and minor problems.

Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn a living. Horace eventually learns, through his associations with Sol, Ben (James Earl Jones) and others, that life, though it isn't always fair or just, is worth rising for every day.

18-year-old John Dakota is running from his past: his hateful father blames him for the tragic death of his brother. On his own now, Dakota winds up in trouble in a small Texas town and finds work at the Diamond Thoroughbred Horse Ranch. Although out of his element, he begins to build a life for himself. He comes to know the Lechners: Walt, a horseman of unexpected wisdom; Molly, a spirited and independent girl who captures Dakota's heart; and Casey, a persistent 12-year-old boy who stirs memories he would rather ignore. When his past inexorably catches up with him, Dakota must choose to keep on running, or face his enemies with the beautiful woman he has come to love.

Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects, and her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is pregnant. The story of unselfish love between a man and a woman and the abiding love within a family, this American classic explores the enduring themes of human existence.

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas town, Horace Robedaux feels the pressure - he doesn't want to leave his young wife Elizabeth and their young child Jenny - but Elizabeth's can't-do-anything-right little brother is constantly talking about the war, and Elizabeth's stern father, who opposed the marriage initially, now has plans to take care of his daughter and the child so Horace can fight for his country. But the influenza epidemic sweeping the town (and the nation) may change everyone's plans.

Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) é um cantor de músicas country que guarda amargas recordações de sua vida. Com sua carreira em declínio, ele se entrega de vez à bebida. Até que, num hotel do Texas, conhece Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), uma viúva com um filho de 10 anos. Logo Rosa e Mac iniciam um relacionamento, que o faz recuperar a alegria de viver.

A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.

Abe Snopes é um rendeiro cuja natureza violenta prova ser sua ruína nesta adaptação do filme (com roteiro de Horton Foote) de um dos contos góticos do autor William Faulkner.

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.

O xerife Calder (Marlon Brando) tem problemas a resolver numa cidadezinha quando Bubber (Robert Redford) foge da prisão e é acusado de assassinato. O problema é que o filho do magnata de petróleo Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) está tendo um caso com a esposa de Bubber, que acabou de escapar da prisão, e Rogers quer Bubber fora do caminho para poder encobrir o caso do filho. Só que Calder quer achar o prisioneiro vivo e não quer ceder ao magnata do petróleo.

Henry Thomas está em liberdade condicional em uma pequena cidade do Texas e, à noite, ele é o vocalista de uma banda. Ele está sendo pressionado por sua mãe adotiva a desistir de sua vida de cantor e voltar para a escola. Sua esposa Georgette e sua filha inesperadamente chegam à cidade para morar com ele. No entanto o temperamento quente de Henry o leva a uma briga com facas, e põe em risco sua liberdade condicional.

Henry Thomas está em liberdade condicional em uma pequena cidade do Texas e, à noite, ele é o vocalista de uma banda. Ele está sendo pressionado por sua mãe adotiva a desistir de sua vida de cantor e voltar para a escola. Sua esposa Georgette e sua filha inesperadamente chegam à cidade para morar com ele. No entanto o temperamento quente de Henry o leva a uma briga com facas, e põe em risco sua liberdade condicional.

Em 1932, na pacata Maycomb (Alabama), vivem os irmãos Jem e Scout Finch, órfãos de mãe criados pela babá negra Calpurnia e o pai Atticus Finch, advogado íntegro e respeitado na cidade, que atende gratuitamente aos mais pobres. A infância dividida entre a escola e as fantasias acerca do vizinho, o “malvado” Sr. Radley, cede espaço ao contato com a discriminação quando seu pai resolve defender o negro Tom Robinson, acusado de ter estuprado uma moça branca. Gregory Peck ganhou um Oscar por sua brilhante atuação nesta versão para o cinema do romance vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer.

A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.