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 defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in ...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

Jill is a young actress in decline who does not do things very well, neither professionally nor pers...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Desperation drives two nuns to perform an exorcism no nun should attempt. With a possessed child at ...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life...