In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.
Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.
The story of medical student Sonja Smirnow and her family.
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
Fresh off a winning case that brought her unwanted internet fame, a rising ADA learns of the district's most respected judge allegedly assaulting her best friend. She starts a case but is surprised to be met with resistance by the district attorney who mentored her, her best friend who questions the system and her motives, and the judge himself who knows her own dark secret.
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Maira, the all known smartest girl in Senior High got her life turned upside down miserably when her nude video got leaked in her school's Instagram account.
A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl he has just met. He threatens her life if she talks, so when she refuses to tell what she knows, she is sent to reform school.
A relationship is put to the test after Renesha is sexually assaulted and her boyfriend Evan drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.
Yoon-young, a 19-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a civil servant, is framed as a murderer and imprisoned in a women's prison.
An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."
A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.
In 19th-century Quebec, Claire, a kitchen hand for a group of fishermen, dreams of learning the men's trade. When she’s invited on a midnight fishing lesson, a nightmare unfolds, and Saule, a nurse, devotes herself to saving her. Together, the two women face their own wounds and join forces to survive.
In hopes of getting her family out of poverty, 17-year-old Mai follows a neighbour's offer and leaves her small fishing village in Central Vietnam to work as a seamstress in Saigon, not knowing her neighbour had sold her into prostitution, and a grisly fate awaits her upon arrival.
An ordinary woman's day is becoming more and more stressful: neither on the street, nor in the office, nor in the bar, she can feel at peace and safe until she reaches the point of no return.
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
The body's survival mechanisms take over. One such response is tonic immobility, a state where voluntary movement is reduced or completely frozen. This involuntary reaction is often misinterpreted as passivity or compliance, reinforcing damaging narratives around consent and agency.
After many years, Julia returns to her childhood home, where as a child she was sexually abused by her recently deceased father. But inhabiting that place again will force her to face her ghosts and darkest memories.
After being sexually assaulted, 16 year old Mae finds her body transforming in overwhelming ways. Struggling to control her new mermaid tail and losing her grip on reality, she attempts to manage her emotions. When faced with an opportunity to take revenge, she must choose how to heal.