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.
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party ...
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions...
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a ...
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotli...
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines...
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial pro...
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...
A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family...
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...
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "th...
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister...
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...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...