Frances Foster

Frances Foster

Nacimiento : 1924-06-11,

Muerte : 1997-06-17

Perfil

Frances Foster

Películas

Clockers (Camellos)
Gloria
Strike es un camello que trabaja las 24 horas del día. Cuando un importante narcotraficante de Brooklyn le informa sobre la posibilidad de mejorar su situación, un camello rival acaba siendo asesinado. El inspector Mazilli quiere una detención rápida, pero su compañero Rocco, se inclina por algo mucho más complicado: descubrir la verdad.
Crooklyn
Aunt Song
Comedia dramática que muestra la vida de una familia negra de clase media de Brooklyn a través de un niña de 10 años.
Malcolm X
Woman Outside Audubon Ballroom
Malcolm Little (1925–1965) nació en Omaha (Nebraska). Su padre, ministro baptista, murió siendo él niño, y su madre acabó en un psiquiátrico cuando el Ku Klux Klan incendió su casa. Después de ser rechazado por el ejército, cayó en la delincuencia y fue a parar a la cárcel. Allí se convirtió al Islam y cambió radicalmente su vida, convirtiéndose pronto en un carismático líder del movimiento de liberación de la comunidad negra norteamericana.
Ciudadano Cohn
First Annie Lee Moss
Una dura mirada a la vida y obra de Roy Marcus Cohn a través de escenas retrospectivas mientras perece a causa del sida en un hospital de Nueva York.
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Self
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy.
Desperate
Loretta
In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
Cinco esquinas
Waitress
Cinco esquinas es un barrio habitado por una clase media-baja en un momento en que los tiempos están cambiando, no sólo para los habitantes de la ciudad, sino para toda la población de los Estados Unidos. En dicho barrio, una mujer luchará por su vida cuando el hombre que la violó sale de la cárcel.
Enemy Territory
Elva Briggs
An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Trapped In Silence
Ovelia
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
Tales of the Unknown South
"Neighbors"
Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.
The House of Dies Drear
Great-Grandmother Jeffers
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
The Last Tenant
Nurse in Home
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
De profesión estafadores
Bea Quitman
Narra la historia de un par de estafadores que intentan ayudar a unos jóvenes con problemas.
The First Breeze of Summer
Gremmar
A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a young woman and a hard-working father's current conflict with his two unhappy sons.
Take a Giant Step
Poppy
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.