Cast: Diahann Carroll

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Diahann Carroll. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Greatest Showman

2017 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gracey

Cast Hugh Jackman · Michelle Williams · Zac Efron · Zendaya

Synopsis The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

6.8

18K votes

6.8

18K votes

Paris Blues

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Sidney Poitier · Diahann Carroll

Synopsis Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate American jazzmen working in a Left Bank nightclub in Paris. Ram is there hoping to attain stature as a musician, and Eddie has...

6.6

861 votes

6.6

861 votes

Porgy and Bess

1959 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey

Synopsis In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted...

6.6

141 votes

6.6

141 votes

Goodbye Again

1961 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yves Montand · Anthony Perkins · Jessie Royce Landis

Synopsis In this adaptation of Francoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful, 40-year old, highly successful businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five years. Roger is a very charming "gallant" who loves Paula...

6.6

358 votes

6.6

358 votes

Hurry Sundown

1967 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Michael Caine · Jane Fonda · Faye Dunaway · John Phillip Law

Synopsis Set in the south in the days just after World War II, a black and a white farmer team up to irrigate their fields and escape the crushing poverty that their families live under. This will cause problems for the...

6.5

418 votes

6.5

418 votes

Carmen Jones

1954 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Pearl Bailey · Joe Adams

Synopsis On leave to see his fiancée, Cindy Lou, trooper Joe falls for Carmen, a worker in a Jacksonville parachute factory who is stringing along prizefighter, Husky Miller.

6.5

663 votes

6.5

663 votes

White Collar (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Eastin · Paul Holahan · John T. Kretchmer · Michael Smith

Cast Matt Bomer · Tim DeKay · Willie Garson · Tiffani Thiessen

Synopsis TV Series (2009-2014). 6 Seasons. 81 Episodes. White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a charming criminal mastermind, is...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Claudine

1974 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Diahann Carroll · James Earl Jones · Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs · Tamu Blackwell

Synopsis Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop, a cheerful garbageman she meets while working on the side as a maid.

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Eve's Bayou

1997 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Kasi Lemmons

Cast Samuel L. Jackson · Lynn Whitfield · Debbi Morgan · Vondie Curtis-Hall

Synopsis The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and...

5.9

282 votes

5.9

282 votes

The Split

1968 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Flemyng

Cast Jim Brown · Diahann Carroll · Ernest Borgnine · Julie Harris

Synopsis Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money.

5.7

58 votes

5.7

58 votes

Direction Charles Haid

Cast Sam Neill · Carmen Ejogo · Diahann Carroll · Mare Winningham

Synopsis A passionately dramatic interpretation of a 39-year forbidden relationship between the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (Sam Neill, JURASSIC PARK) and a beautiful mulatto slave named Sally Hemings (Carmen Ejogo). This fictionalized historical scandal is portrayed here...

5.5

180 votes

5.5

180 votes

Back to You (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Steven Levitan · Christopher Lloyd · James Burrows

Cast Kelsey Grammer · Patricia Heaton · Josh Gad · Fred Willard

Synopsis In the '90s, the local TV news scene in Pittsburgh was dominated by one team: CHUCK DARLING (Kelsey Grammer, "Frasier," "Cheers") and KELLY CARR (Patricia Heaton, "Everybody Loves Raymond"). They had that elusive quality all news teams need: chemistry. At...

5.4

138 votes

5.4

138 votes

Dynasty (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Richard Shapiro · Esther Shapiro · Irving J. Moore · Don Medford

Cast John Forsythe · Linda Evans · Joan Collins · Gordon Thomson

Synopsis TV Series (1981-1989). 9 Seasons. 220 Episodes. Drama. The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered...

4.9

4K votes

4.9

4K votes

Peeples

2013 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Tina Gordon Chism

Cast Craig Robinson · Kerry Washington · David Alan Grier · Tyler James Williams

Synopsis A psychologist realizes his professional help is needed after he arrives unannounced at his girlfriend's family's annual end-of-summer party.

4.2

65 votes

4.2

65 votes

The Masked Saint

2016 · Movie · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Warren P. Sonoda

Cast Brett Granstaff · Lara Jean Chorostecki · T.J. McGibbon · Diahann Carroll

Synopsis The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent...

3.8

41 votes

3.8

41 votes

At Risk (TV)

2010 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Tom McLoughlin

Cast Andie MacDowell · Daniel Sunjata · Ashley Williams · Annabeth Gish

Synopsis A detective in a Boston suburb is assigned by his female district attorney to reopen an old murder case, which throws his life into grave peril.

3.6

86 votes

3.6

86 votes

The Little Mermaid

2018 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Chris Bouchard · Blake Harris

Cast Poppy Drayton · Gina Gershon · William Moseley · Shirley MacLaine

Synopsis A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real mermaid.

2.9

513 votes

2.9

513 votes

Direction Simon Frederick

Cast Simon Frederick · Nelson George · Lil Rel Howery · Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Sidney Lumet · Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Martin Luther King · Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ruby Dee

Synopsis King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity narrators, including Paul...

Not rated

Not rated

The Five Heartbeats

1991 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Robert Townsend

Cast Robert Townsend · Michael Wright · Leon · Harry Lennix

Synopsis The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.

Not rated

Not rated