Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.