Cast: Margaret Avery

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Danny Glover · Whoopi Goldberg · Adolph Caesar · Akosua Busia

Synopsis An acclaimed drama, spanning a period of forty years, in which Celie, a black girl, is mistreated by two men until suddenly a blues singer enters her life and her real self begins to emerge. The story is based on...

Direction Chuck Adamson · Gustave Reininger · Leon Ichaso · Aaron Lipstadt

Cast Dennis Farina · Tony Denison · John Santucci · Stephen Lang

Synopsis The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime. Chicago, 1963. As head of the police department's Major Crime Unit, Lieutenant Michael Torello must deal with the city's...

Direction Elvis Mitchell

Cast Margaret Avery · Harry Belafonte · Charles Burnett · Suzanne De Passe

Synopsis Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.

Direction Michael Schur · Rebecca Asher · Morgan Sackett

Cast Ted Danson · Mary Elizabeth Ellis · Lilah Richcreek · Stephanie Beatriz

Direction Karen Arthur

Cast Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs · Angela Bassett · Holly Robinson Peete · Margaret Avery

Synopsis The Jacksons are your average working-class family in Gary, Indiana; but when their father discovers the kids have an extraordinary musical talent they form a band. Winning talent show after talent show they soon hit it big when Motown calls....

Direction Gilbert Moses

Cast Julius Erving · Jonathan Winters · Meadowlark Lemon · Jack Kehoe

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Fred Williamson · Julius Harris · Gloria Hendry · Margaret Avery

Synopsis Tommy comes from a forced rest period due to injuries suffered in Harlem's gang warfare. With the help of his girl, he will reorganize his gang, and overcome his rival gang leaders, through extreme acts of violence and death.

Direction Desmond Nakano

Cast John Travolta · Harry Belafonte · Kelly Lynch · Margaret Avery

Synopsis The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children....

Direction Babak Najafi

Cast Taraji P. Henson · Neal McDonough · Danny Glover · Xander Berkeley

Synopsis Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.

Direction Malcolm D. Lee

Cast Martin Lawrence · James Earl Jones · Louis C.K. · Margaret Avery

Synopsis A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.

Direction Tyler Perry

Cast Tyler Perry · David Mann · Tamela J. Mann · Angela Bassett

Synopsis A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.

Direction Larry G. Brown

Cast Tom Basham · Gene Carlson · Gretchen Kanne · Margaret Avery

Synopsis The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.

Direction Kevin Hooks

Cast Cicely Tyson · Blair Underwood · James Earl Jones · Margaret Avery

Synopsis The events that led to the 1965's racial riots in Watts, Los Angeles, are covered by a black messenger-turned-reporter at the L.A. Times, as he was one of the first correspondents to arrive at the scene. The movie also follows...

Direction Bruce Seth Green · Michael Switzer · Michael Lange · Daniel T. Cahn

Cast Joseph Bologna · Tisha Campbell · Blanca De Garr · Kimiko Gelman

Synopsis A wealthy widowed businessman adopts five daughters to live with him at his mansion.

Direction Michael Schultz

Cast Richard Pryor · Lonette McKee · Margaret Avery · Morgan Woodward

Synopsis Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to...

Direction Bud Townsend

Cast Linda Gillen · John Neilson · Arthur Space · Mary Jackson

Synopsis College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know where she'll be, the...

Direction Mara Brock Akil · Oz Scott · Salim Akil · Rob Hardy

Cast Gabrielle Union · Lisa Vidal · Margaret Avery · Raven Goodwin

Synopsis The story and life of a black woman, her work, her family as well as her popular talk show which she hosts.

Direction Mario Van Peebles

Cast Mario Van Peebles · Lesley Ann Warren · Daniel Baldwin · Donovan Leitch

Synopsis A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

Direction Sam Firstenberg

Cast Steve James · Margaret Avery · Tony Frank · Julius Tennon

Synopsis A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. Together with one strong-willed woman...

Direction Dawn Wilkinson

Cast Antoinette Robertson · Margaret Avery · Golden Brooks · Birgundi Baker

Synopsis Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers that her once super-sharp Grandma Janice is showing early signs of dementia, Keke puts...