John Sayles Movies

A happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.

Matewan is a movie starring Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, and Mary McDonnell. A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.

Lone Star is a movie starring Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, and Stephen Mendillo. When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Sunshine State is a movie starring Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, and Alex Lewis. A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate...

Silver City is a movie starring Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, and Maria Bello. The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperat

A fictional account of events during the Philippine-American War.