Cast: Ruby Dee

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Denzel Washington · Russell Crowe · Carla Gugino · Cuba Gooding Jr.

Synopsis Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver for one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create...

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Martin Sheen · Tony Musante · Beau Bridges · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together.

Direction Ernest Kinoy · Georg Stanford Brown · Charles S. Dubin · John Erman

Cast Georg Stanford Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Henry Fonda · Marlon Brando

Synopsis 14 Episodes -one hour each-. This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's genealogical search to discover his roots.

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Synopsis It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the...

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Sidney Poitier · Claudia McNeil · Ruby Dee · Diana Sands

Synopsis Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier) 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. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · Linda Darnell · Stephen McNally

Synopsis The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Dick Powell · Paula Raymond · Adolphe Menjou · Marshall Thompson

Synopsis A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast John Cassavetes · Sidney Poitier · Jack Warden · Kathleen Maguire

Synopsis Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes), with a mysterious past, and Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), an easy-going freight car loader who's growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik (Jack Warden), a notably repellent punk.

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Annabella Sciorra · Wesley Snipes · Spike Lee · Debi Mazar

Synopsis 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 even worse.

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Raymond St. Jacques · Ruby Dee · Frank Silvera · Roscoe Lee Browne

Direction Arne Glimcher

Cast Sean Connery · Laurence Fishburne · Ed Harris · Kate Capshaw

Synopsis A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Nastassja Kinski · Malcolm McDowell · John Heard · Annette O'Toole

Synopsis A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex....

Direction Mick Garris

Cast Gary Sinise · Molly Ringwald · Jamey Sheridan · Laura San Giacomo

Synopsis When a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, most of the population of the world is wiped-out. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman, or a foreboding, scary man. As the story tracks various...

Direction Darnell Martin

Cast Halle Berry · Ruben Santiago-Hudson · Michael Ealy · Nicki Micheaux

Synopsis Covering the first 30 years of the 20th century, the film is set in Eatonville, FL, a largely black community and the home of free-spirited Janie Crawford (Halle Berry), forced into marriage with a much older and much wealthier man...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Peter Falk · Aaron Meeks · Nastassja Kinski · Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis In 1969, Abel Shaddick is a crotchety deli owner who clashes with virtually everyone in his town of Fairview, particularly with his lazy nephew Stanley, who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley agrees to put up a...

Direction Joseph Strick

Cast Shelley Winters · Peter Falk · Lee Grant · Peter Brocco

Synopsis The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet play. Shelley Winters stars as the cathouse's madam, a stern woman who supervises the fantasy role-playing of her...

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Harry Belafonte · Ruby Dee · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story of a wagon-train guide...

Direction Alan Rudolph

Cast Tom Berenger · Elizabeth Perkins · Anne Archer · Kate Capshaw

Synopsis A down and out private detective (Tom Berenger) is asked by a beautiful woman (Anne Archer) to follow her lover (Neil Young) because she thinks he may be planning to kill her. Due to her poor description she's in danger....

Direction Brian Robbins

Cast Eddie Murphy · Ariel Winter · Cliff Curtis · Kerry Washington

Synopsis After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word we speak.

Direction Michael Ritchie

Cast Martin Short · Mara Wilson · Kathleen Turner · Robert Pastorelli