Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
Explore the tumultuous life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a Jamaican political activist and advocate ...
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep ...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky.
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister...
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "th...
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go b...
Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going...