Cinematography: Charles Burnett
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Charles Burnett. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
My Brother's Wedding
1983 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Charles Burnett
Cast Everett Silas · Jessie Holmes · Gaye Shannon-Burnett · Sy Richardson
Plot A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.
7.2
81 votes
7.2
81 votes
Killer of Sheep
1978 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Charles Burnett
Cast Henry G. Sanders · Kaycee Moore · Charles Bracy · Angela Burnett
Plot The first feature film from acclaimed independent African American filmmaker Charles Burnett, this intensely emotional drama concerns a man who makes his living at a slaughterhouse as he struggles for...
6.9
597 votes
6.9
597 votes
Your Children Come Back to You
1979 · Movie · 27 min. · United States
Direction Alile Sharon Larkin
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Bless Their Little Hearts
1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Billy Woodberry
Cast Nate Hardman · Kaycee Moore · Angela Burnett · Ronald Burnett
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Crocodile Conspiracy (S)
1986 · Movie · 13 min. · United States
Direction Zeinabu irene Davis
Cast John Jelks · Sandra Sealy
Plot Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.
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Bush Mama
1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Haile Gerima
Cast Barbarao · Johnny Weathers · Susan Williams · Cora Lee Day
Plot It details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The...
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Quiet as Kept (S)
2007 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Charles Burnett
Cast Nathaniel Lee Sr. · Sharial C. Lee · Dan Curtis Lee
Plot A teenager boy leaves a moment of boredom while his father works on his old car, and the mother wishes to go out for a stroll around the block. One...
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Several Friends (S)
1969 · Movie · 21 min. · United States
Direction Charles Burnett
Cast Andy Burnett · Eugene Cherry · Charles Bracy · Casssandra Wright
Plot An improvised late '60's short-subject student film, and debut movie of Director, Charles Burnett; done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A day-in-the-life South Central L.A. tale about a rag-tag...
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A Different Image
1982 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Alile Sharon Larkin
Cast Adisa Anderson · Margot Saxton-Federella
Plot An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating the friendship of a male office...
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