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.

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the p...

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...

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran sales...

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 ...

Jake, full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his ne...

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene:...

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...

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 ...

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a...

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kenned...

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule —...