Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

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

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he pr...

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend tr...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by H...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a ...

A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her...

Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50t...

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is lo...

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager ...

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend thei...

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her th...

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

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes ge...