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.

A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school frien...

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the mi...

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumb...

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics u...

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl...

1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on it...

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a ...

A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Kent, who has ...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of ...

Inal, Nia, Aska, Yanti, Attar, and Ondeng struggled to get education in a free school built by the t...

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illu...

Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka k...

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...

In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assig...