In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

After being locked down, Rex and Amy invite their friends over to a house in the middle of nowhere. ...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the...

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

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to i...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses....

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsi...

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

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by mea...

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

Former army commando Bose gets fired after he stops a rapist's attack on a student. The young woman ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...