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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
IMDb: 7.6
123

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile,…

Genre: Drama
A Woman Called Moses

A Woman Called Moses

A Woman Called Moses
TMDb: 7.4
120 min

A Woman Called Moses is a television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Cherish the Day

Cherish the Day

Cherish the Day
TMDb: 10
45 min

A chronicle of the stirring relationship of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The narrative will unfold to reveal significant moments in a relationship that compel us…

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Drama
A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying
IMDb: 6.7
101

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog,…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Jewel

Jewel

Jewel
IMDb: 6.5
120

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down’s syndrome.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird
IMDb: 5.5
95

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey,…

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered
IMDb: 7.2
104

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Alex Cross

Alex Cross

Alex Cross
IMDb: 5.2
101

After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his…

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
IMDb: 7.9
112

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie
IMDb: 6.3
106

A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

Hoodlum
IMDb: 6.3
130

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth ‘Bumpy’ Johnson…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes
IMDb: 7.7
130

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Bustin’ Loose

Bustin’ Loose

Bustin’ Loose
IMDb: 6.1
94

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Why Did I Get Married Too?
IMDb: 4.7
121

Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
A Fall from Grace

A Fall from Grace

A Fall from Grace
IMDb: 5.9
120

When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.

Last Flag Flying

Last Flag Flying

Last Flag Flying
IMDb: 6.9
125

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry “Doc” Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Sounder

Sounder

Sounder
IMDb: 7.6
105

The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of…

Genre: Drama
The River Niger

The River Niger

The River Niger
IMDb: 6
105

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But…

Genre: Drama
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
IMDb: 5.3
101

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house’s only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret…

Idlewild

Idlewild

Idlewild
IMDb: 6.2
121

A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
The Rosa Parks Story

The Rosa Parks Story

The Rosa Parks Story
IMDb: 7.3
97

The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.

Genre: Drama, History
Relative Stranger

Relative Stranger

Relative Stranger
IMDb: 6.5
89

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
IMDb: 5.8
116

Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam
IMDb: 6.6
99

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Genre: Drama, Music