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.

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 ...

Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the...

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean...

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:...

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A...

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 ...

An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as ...

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barri...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly disc...
In order not to end up as a lock keeper in the country like his father, 18-year-old Abel wants to go...

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...

AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline B...

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is...