Frances Foster

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."

Genre: Action

Cast: Ray Parker, Jr.

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Nash

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Harvey Keitel

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Howard Rollins

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Baldwin

Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dickey

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfre Woodard

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Woods

A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a...

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Cast: Ethel Ayler

A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marsha Mason

A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jodie Foster

An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jonelle Allen

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington

In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Savage

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Lo Bianco

A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost...

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Cast: Anne Meara

A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Murphy