Movies: Tim Blake Nelson

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her....

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia....

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree an...

A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father....

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her agent...

Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma, made it her life's mission....

A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend....

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City....

Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he’s been living in, everyone questions his motivations, includ...

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family....

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks....

A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools....

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation....

In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as "Heaven's Gate" committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story....

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe sus...

Tim Blake Nelson's latest directorial effort follows a teacher in an abusive marriage who takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punish...

Tim Blake Nelson is a man who's safe and comfortable and bored to death with his life. In his state of despair, he looks to classic stories for inspiration. Awakened by the tales of yore, he anoints himself as Don Quixote to find adventure, fame and ...

In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be....

The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen, combined with corporate giants to change the face of sports and ultimately became the most famous rivalry in racing history....

Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry....