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

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Bless Their Little Hearts

1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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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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