Laura Bowman

뉴욕 발레단에 소속된 니나(나탈리 포트만)는 전직 발레리나 출신인 엄마 에리카(바바라 허쉬)의 총애를 받으며 모든 것을 발레에 바치고 있다. 예술 감독 토마스 리로이(뱅상 카셀)는 백조와 흑조라는 베스(위노나 라이더)를 새로운 시즌의 오프닝 작품 백조의 호수에서 강판시키고 니나를 발탁한다. 하지만 순수하고 나약한 백조 연기에 비해 관능적이고 도발적인 흑조를 연기하는 데에는 어딘지 불안한 니나. 게다가 새로 입단한 릴리(밀라 쿠니스)는 니나처럼 정교한 테크닉은 없지만, 무대를 압도하는 카리스마와 관능미로 은근히 비교 대상이 되는데...

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.

A black Harvard graduate faces racism and discrimination after returning to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges.

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

In Louisiana, a voodoo priestess and a minister preach their religion to the same community. One day, an evil man named Tom comes into town and tries to force the minister's daughter to go with him to his sinful place across the river where all manners of "evil" things occur like drinking and gambling! It's up to the voodoo priestess to stop Tom before he can corrupt the innocent girl.

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.

A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.