Velvet Goldmine (1998)

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity.

Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what ... See full summary »

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

The sudden reappearance of his best friend Toni, after ten years absence, causes Chris to remember his past, to question some of his lifestyle decisions and to re-evaluate his life and marriage to Marion.

Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who ... See full summary »

When an uptight young man and his fiancee move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.

A transsexual punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

A believable telling of the life of Mary, the chosen by God, mother of Christ. The story follows Mary before conception, at the revealing of the impending birth by the angel Gabrie, and ... See full summary »

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Karen Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 70s.