Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Contagion forteller historien om et livsfarlig virus, spredd via luften og med dødelig utfall i løpet av bare få dager. Samtidig som den raskt voksende epidemien utvikler seg, arbeider legemiddelindustrien verden over med å finne en løsning. Håpet er å stoppe det livsfarlige viruset - men også den altomfattende panikken som angriper menneskene i en enda raskere fart enn sykdommen selv.

Den sanne historien om hvordan to viljesterke mennesker utfordret verdens mektigste mann. I 1971 viser en lekkasje av CIA-dokumenter hvordan regjeringen lyver for offentligheten om Vietnam-krigen, og det er opp til den uerfarne aviseieren Katherine Graham å gjøre det umulige valget: å lyde presidentens eller å avsløre sannheten ved å risikere hele bedriftens fremtid.

Shirley Chisholm gjorde et banebrytende forsøk på å bli demokratenes presidentkandidat i 1972, etter at hun ble den første svarte kvinnen som ble valgt til kongressen.

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Den sanne og utrolige historien om forsikringsadvokaten James Donovan. CIA setter han på den umulige oppgaven om å forhandle om frigivelsen av en amerikansk pilot fanget på russisk jord, og han havner utilsiktet i sentrum av viktige hendelser under den kalde krigen.

Filmen basert på den sanne historien om Boston Globes avsløringer av en massiv skandale i den katolske kirken, som hadde forsøkt å dekke over en rekke overgrep mot barn utført av prester. En av årets store Oscar-favoritter, blant annet med nominasjon for beste film. I 2001 begynte Boston Globe å etterforske en nyhetssak om at flere prester i den katolske kirken hadde foregrepet seg på barn. Etterhvert som avisens Spotlight-redaksjon gravde dypere, skulle sannheten vise seg å være langt mer omfattende og skremmende enn de hadde sett for seg. Filmen tar for seg det enestående arbeidet redaksjonen gjorde for å rette søkelyset mot fakta som mektige krefter iherdig forsøkte å dysse ned.

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.