Drama
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Threads
Oliver!
A Stranger Is Watching
Sin Nombre
The Web of Silence - A.I.D.S.
Naked
Sparkle
(Un)alarmed
Hot Road
Baby Shark
Cop
The Pleasure of Sin
365 Days
White Man's Burden
Raymond & Ray
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Guigo Offline
Duel in the Sun
Nazi Love Camp 27
Under a Piaya Moon
SIMILAR MOVIES
Threads
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 1984
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.Oliver!
IMDB 7 | Sep , 1968
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.A Stranger Is Watching
IMDB 4.5 | Oct , 1982
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.Sin Nombre
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 2009
Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.The Web of Silence - A.I.D.S.
IMDB 2 | Apr , 1994
Walter is HIV positive and is leading a promiscuis life in Rome. He does this so that he won’t infect his wife. Walter’s wife is also cheating on him. In a decidedly dull subplot, Walter’s father is a senator who wants to use his son’s illness to promote his own political career by calling for more AIDS research.Naked
IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 1993
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.Sparkle
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1976
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.(Un)alarmed
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2022
Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.Hot Road
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 2014
Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.Baby Shark
IMDB 4.2 | May , 2005
This treatise on teens behaving badly takes three separate approaches to its theme. In the first story, a hottie skater boy asks a bored, young heterosexual couple to sexually indulge him. In the second story, a boy/girl couple contends with a nerd who clings to the boy after class each day. In the third and final story, an attractive young guy puts the moves on his identical twin brother's girlfriend.Cop
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 1988
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.The Pleasure of Sin
IMDB 3 | Dec , 1964
A deaf and dumb girl in a village is raped by a man, becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby. Jabbar later marries the village headman's daughter but his wife can't get pregnant. Therefore, he wants to get the baby for himself and his wife.365 Days
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2020
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.White Man's Burden
IMDB 5.2 | Dec , 1995
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.Raymond & Ray
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2022
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they've become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 2010
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.Guigo Offline
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2017
Guigo is in love with Sabrina, with whom he exchanges messages through his cell phone. He is the son of separated parents. One day he and his friend Túlio travel to a fishery with their father, Roberto, and his friend, Paulo.Duel in the Sun
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 1946
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.Nazi Love Camp 27
IMDB 4.4 | Jan , 1977
When World War II breaks out, two German lovers are cruelly separated. While he is sent to fight at the front, she, a Jewish girl, is sent to a concentration camp where humiliation and death have been elevated to a sinister art.Under a Piaya Moon
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2024
In 1980s Bacolod City, a young man aspires to continue the family legacy by winning an inter-city pastry competition with the help of his feuding grandfather and grandmother.