In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated ...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Set in the year 2060, it follows a love story as Tokyo's third Olympics draws near. Takeru Oosawa, w...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...