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.

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...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The fil...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of ...

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who ...

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's q...

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energet...

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for somet...