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.

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...

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

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empi...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his st...

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up ...

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

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

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...