In June 1934, Kit Kittredge is determined to become a reporter, and she writes articles on the typewriter in her attic bedroom while drama unfolds on the floors beneath her.

The story revolves around a German Wirehaired Pointer named Moreover, who has a strong relationship with a red-headed boy named Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) despite his mishaps.

The story follows a young teacher, Pat Conroy, in 1969 assigned to isolated "Yamacraw Island" (Daufuskie Island) off the coast of South Carolina and populated mostly by poor black families.

When Ronnie gives a presentation at school about a personal hero, he tells the story of his grandfather and his dog, Hachiko.

Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison.

Twelve-year-old Billy Colman is obsessed with coon dogs and coon hunting, but good dogs cost money that his family cannot afford.

Before the Civil War, the Dabney family of Virginia sold their slave, Shadrach (John Franklin Sawyer), to plantation owners in Alabama, separating him from his family.

Impoverished and alone, fine artist Mary Daas (Deborah Pollitt) braves a blizzard with her toddler son, Nello, to reach the remote forest home of her father Jehaan Daas (Jack Warden).

Saul Naumann (Richard Gere) is a somewhat controlling Jewish husband and father.

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St.

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop.

Spin is a 2003 American drama film starring Ryan Merriman, Stanley Tucci, Dana Delany, Paula Garcés and Rubén Blades.

Stephen, a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, returns from a mental hospital, which he entered voluntarily because he was suffering from nightmares about the war and had in consequence lost three jobs in a row.

It is a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philadelphia, where 12-year-old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandfather.

Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco.

An older Billy Coleman rescues a beagle from attack by another neighborhood dog. He takes it home with him so that its wounds can heal.

An abused Beagle puppy runs away from his cruel owner, Judd Travers, and meets a boy named Marty Preston.

Set in 1959, the story focuses on the Youngers, an African American family living on Chicago's South Side.

The film takes place in Glen Allan, Mississippi, during the mid-20th century.

The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.