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.

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the...

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster dau...

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutena...

Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to se...

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive ...

The romance of an engineer who plans the construction of a highway that will cross a town in Patagon...

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious dru...

16-year old Jan is absent-mindedly strolling through the streets when he's run over by roller-skatin...

The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells...

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Pari...

In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care...

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assis...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

The story starts with the inauguration of the first-ever Mechanical batch in an engineering campus. ...

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a g...

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not u...

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popula...

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wo...

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the...