After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life ar...

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. ...

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys d...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

Hassan and Mario are neighbors. They have raised their daughters, Dina and Isabella together, suppor...

Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bun...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...