Set 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; 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 ...
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mys...
Izzy, a fourteen-year-old outcast, loses touch with the world around her and discovers the DC Hardco...
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to re...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
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...
In late 18th century Scotland, Annie Laurie and William Douglas love each other, but their clans are...
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...
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...
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...