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.

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...

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunti...

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

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...

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...
A career woman's struggle and fight against a male dominated society.

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two o...

At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide t...

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport ...

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised ga...

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the liv...