The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

"Dignity" is a love story between a woman and her family. However, the family's strength is tested when a moral decision must be made.

Unsuccessful Luxembourg bank robber Johnny Chicago is released from prison and immediately and incompetently attempts to resume his life of crime. In a few days he manages to get his old partner fired and thrown out of the house, his girlfriend arrested and jailed, all the while scheming to rob a bunch of German pensioners, stop a train and make some quick money to make a name for himself.

When the sole survivor of an attempted North Atlantic crossing washes ashore, she must piece her memories together and face the terror of what happened far out at sea.

Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.

An East Indian native immigrates to New York City and stumbles his way onto the corporate fast-track.

Justin Tolchuk is a sensitive, lanky 16-year-old just trying to make it through the social nightmare of high school in Medora, Wisconsin. When his well-meaning mom Franny signs up for the school's international exchange student program, she pictures an athletic, brilliant Nordic teen who will bestow instant coolness on her outsider son. However, when the Tolchuk's exchange student arrives, he turns out to be Raja Musharaff, a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslim. It's going to be a very interesting year for Raja, Justin, his family and the entire population of Medora.

Police bungling in the war on drugs, televangelism's popularity, and the power of mass media are three strands satirizing society.

Ullas is a scamster living in a small town, who'd do anything for good money. A confusion leads him to get married to a rich NRI girl, who has an alcohol problem. What will become of this marriage?

For the first time in 30 years, a Democratic candidate is challenging the local power structure. Marlena Cooper is the first black woman to run for the Democrats in the Republican stronghold of Gregg County, in eastern Texas. Democracy in America chronicles her campaign and that of her Republican opponent Jay Dean, showing two communities that seem to live in different worlds. Through its protagonists, the film touches on powerful themes such as racism, abortion, guns, and, echoing Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, the fundamental role of religion. A journey into the heart of Texas, in search of the roots of the present and future of the United States.