Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by...

After a meet-cute in a bar, Dawn and Micah's road trip to Portland turns into a nightmare when they're hunted by an infamous serial killer known as...

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman as...

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the...

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and...

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new...

Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.

After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.

Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus...

At a remote location in the mountains of Mexico lives Artemio, a farmer who is watching the desolate plot of land on which he works and his life...

Maxim is an ordinary guy with a big dream to write the novel. But in a hectic of daily routine it is hard for him to find time to work on the book....

More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family...

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not...

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge...