Guitarist El Mariachi simply wants to wander through life with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips. He wanders into a small mob-run town, guitar case in hand. It so happens that the local criminal element is awaiting the arrival of hit man Azul (Reinol Martinez), who is well known for carrying his weapons in a guitar case.

Djay isn't happy with his life, and the realization that he's reached the same age when his father unexpectedly died has made him start thinking about changing his ways. After picking up a cheap keyboard, he begins picking out beats. After bumping into an old high-school buddy who works in gospel music-they get together.

John is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a beautiful wife named Ann. Ann feels secure and well provided-for in their relationship, but she has almost no interest in sex. John, however, is still quite interested in sex and is having an affair with Ann's sister Cynthia.

Alison Elliott stars as Percy Talbott, an ex-convict who's come to the small Maine town of Gilead in the hope of finding work and a place to start her life over again.

59-year-old Delbert Ward lives with his brothers Bill, Roscoe, and Lyman on a dairy farm. Barely able to function on an adult level, the brothers keep to themselves, ignored and shunned by their neighbors. When brother Bill dies on June 5, 1990, the authorities determine that his death was not from natural causes.

Susan Tom of Fairfield, CA, is not a typical single mother -- Tom is the head of a family of 11 adopted children, all of whom are physically challenged or living with long-term illnesses.

In the mid-'70s, skateboarding was widely seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in California. But that began to change with the emerge of the Z-Boys, a team of teenaged skateboarders who emerged from a decaying urban community in Santa Monica, CA.

Adapted from the hit off-Broadway musical of the same name is this tale of an "internationally ignored" rock & roll singer who hails from Communist Berlin and who dreams of becoming an American sensation.

On the eastern coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, now it will be to a woman.

In New Jersey, Finbar McBride is a four-foot-tall lonely man who chooses to live the life of a hermit in an abandoned train yard following the death of his friend. While he is there, he unexpectedly meets and befriends a couple of fellow loners.

Director Jean-François Pouliot's comedy chronicles the chaos wreaked when a small, down-on-its-luck town is seduced by the promise of having a big-time manufacturing plant -- on one unique condition.

What do you do after love at first sight? That's the question posed in this romantic comedy-drama set in Chicago.

Parenthood stirs up a wealth of mixed emotions in this drama from Italy. Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) and Giulia (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) are a couple in their late twenties who realize they've crossed the final threshold into adulthood when Giulia discovers she's going to have a baby.

Born Into Brothels is a documentary about the inspiring non-profit foundation Kids With Cameras, which teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities.

This 64-minute documentary, winner of the "Audience Award" at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, details the hurdles that determined teenager Kelli Peterson had to confront when she decided to organize a Gay-Straight Alliance at her Utah high school in 1996.