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.

Outside, the first sun rays break the dawn. Sixteen years old Catarina can't fall asleep. Inconseq...

What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the break...

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 ...

Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches f...

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge find...

Ismael and Julie, in the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, enter a playful yet emotionall...

The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of p...

A tutor recounts a frantic night that culminated in a 16-year old girl's disappearance. Unfolding in...

Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persis...

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on t...
A career woman's struggle and fight against a male dominated society.

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...