Search results for "Ruby Dee"
Video Girl

Video Girl

Video Girl
IMDb: 5.1
95

Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a star in the Hip-Hop video world. But she soon learns…

Genre: Drama
Betty and Coretta

Betty and Coretta

Betty and Coretta
IMDb: 6.3
90

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

Genre: Drama
All About Us

All About Us

All About Us
IMDb: 4.6
90

Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they soon discover what matters…

Genre: Drama, Romance
No. 2

No. 2

No. 2
IMDb: 6.5
94

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria’s family. There are no parties — they…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Love at Large

Love at Large

Love at Large
IMDb: 5.7
97

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
IMDb: 7
96

Based on writer Maya Angelou’s eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Edge of the City

Edge of the City

Edge of the City
IMDb: 7.2
85

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Genre: Drama
And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead

And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead

And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead
IMDb: 6.5
90

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity’s moral survival.

Genre: Documentary
Uptight

Uptight

Uptight
IMDb: 7.3
104

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Color Adjustment

Color Adjustment

Color Adjustment
IMDb: 7.3
80

From Amos ‘n’ Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows…

Genre: Documentary
America

America

America
IMDb: 6.2
N/A

In “America,” Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to…

Genre: Drama
The Balcony

The Balcony

The Balcony
IMDb: 6
84

Shelley Winters is the madam of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The Tall Target

The Tall Target

The Tall Target
IMDb: 7.2
78

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride in 1861.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
IMDb: 5.8
N/A

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black…

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words
IMDb: 5.9
91

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.6
132

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 8
120

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only…

Genre: Drama
Cat People

Cat People

Cat People
IMDb: 6.2
118

After years of separation, Irina and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn…

Genre: Horror
The Incident

The Incident

The Incident
IMDb: 7.7
107

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
IMDb: 8
128

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses
IMDb: 2.7
97

Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

Buck and the Preacher

Buck and the Preacher

Buck and the Preacher
IMDb: 6.5
102

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues
IMDb: 7.1
105

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can’t…

Genre: Drama, History
Black Girl

Black Girl

Black Girl
IMDb: 7
97

An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister’s resent their mother’s love for a foster daughter.

Genre: Drama
A Simple Wish

A Simple Wish

A Simple Wish
IMDb: 5.4
86

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her “simple wish” – that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would…

Just Cause

Just Cause

Just Cause
IMDb: 6.4
102

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a…

Cop and ½

Cop and ½

Cop and ½
IMDb: 4.1
97

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Discovering William Greaves

Discovering William Greaves

Discovering William Greaves
IMDb: 5.7
61

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, and film scholar Scott MacDonald. Released within…

Genre: Documentary
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
IMDb: 8.4
88

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at…

Genre: Documentary
Decoration Day

Decoration Day

Decoration Day
IMDb: 7.3
100

A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie