Margaret Avery

문화 평론가이자 역사가인 엘비스 미첼이 블랙시네마의 진화 그리고 혁명을 짚어본다. 태동기를 시작으로, 후대에 지대한 영향을 끼친 1970년대 영화까지.

The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his family members are forced to say their goodbyes via video conferencing.

Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers that her once super-sharp Grandma Janice is showing early signs of dementia, Keke puts her career at stake in order to save her Grandma's block party, and in the process, Keke falls back in love with her hometown and its people.

보스턴을 거점으로 삼는 범죄 조직의 킬러 메리는 어린 소년과의 우연한 만남을 통해 자신도 몰랐던 모성 본능을 깨닫게 되고, 그때부터 그녀의 삶도 다른 방향으로 흘러가기 시작한다.

인기 시나리오 작가 타일러 페리스의 코미디로 직장에서 갑작스럽게 해고된 싱글맘이 아버지의 장례식을 계기로 새로운 인연을 만들어 가게 되는 내용.

잘나가는 토크쇼 사회자인 RJ가 어느날 부모님의 결혼 50주년 기념식에 참석하라는 연락을 받고 9년만에 고향을 찾게 되면서 벌어지는 소동을 그린다.

Murdered because he refused to sell his land to a greedy opportunist, Bucko Cassidy (Lee Majors) returns as a ghost to help his grown son, Junior (Derek Hamilton), keep the homestead in the family. While contending with conflicts in his marriage to Ellie (Rachel Wilson), Junior also has to convince everyone around him that he's not crazy -- because he's the only one who can see Bucko. Barry Corbin costars in this quirky comedy.

Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband ...

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.

Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool proof system during the refurbishing of a bank. But shortly after it's finished he is blackmailed into cracking the security.

A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.

Charlotte Furber suffers an accident in which a man loses his life. She suffers amnesia and everybody thinks the man was drunk and therefore responsible, even his own wife, Jean.

This is a sequel to Super Fly (1972). In it, Nathan Purdee is now playing the role of Priest, who was played by Ron O'Neal in the previous movie. In it, Eddie, Priest's old partner, was killed. Now Priest, who has been living in France, and who is no longer a drug dealer, visits, and he sets out to find the ones who killed Eddie, and to get them.

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. Together with one strong-willed woman they formulate a bold plan to fight for freedom and human rights.

In a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns away from her. She finds solace in wise jazz singer Hattie Cale and learns that she's inherited her dad's skill at the piano. But she also begins to uncover dark truths about her family's past and the reason for her mother's emotional distance. A rich jazz score accompanies this moving drama.

착한 천성의 셀리(우피 골드버그)는 열네 살 때 의붓 아버지의 아이를 둘이나 낳는다. 셀리의 유일한 낙은 두 살 아래 여동생 네티(아코슈 부시아)와 서로 의지하며 다정하게 살아가는 것이다. 그러던 중 미스터(대니 글로버)라는 남자가 네티에게 청혼을 한다. 그러나 의붓 아버지는 네티가 너무 어리다며 대신 셀리를 데려가라고 한다. 셀리는 미스터의 아내가 되나, 미스터의 전처가 낳은 아이들과 미스터의 난폭한 성격 때문에 비참한 삶을 살게 되는데...

This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.

George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.

Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the 1940's. James, the boy in question, has a raging toothache that necessitates a trip to the dentist. His mother (played by Emmy-winner Olivia Cole), accompanies James to town on an eye-opening odyssey where the boy gains valuable insights into poverty, racism - and his own sense of pride. With an exciting musical score by Webster Lewis, this multi-award winning film explores a child's discovery that the world is a complicated place... where things are never truly black or white... only shades of gray. - Olivia Cole, James Bond III, Margaret Avery

The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.

The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.

부정부패로 사람들 비난을 받았지만 유유히 인맥과 막강한 자본을 빌미로 무죄로 풀려난 정치인이라든지 법으로 잡아들이지 못하던 이들이 하나둘 누군가에게 총에 맞아 죽는다. 해리는 이걸 매우 이상하게 여기는데 경호원들까지 타고 있는 차량에서 다들 저항도 못하고 앉은 채로 총에 맞아 죽은 것. 누구 하나 저항하지 못한 채로 운전석에서 총에 맞아 죽었다는 것은 보통 차를 세우는 것을 이상하게 여기지 않은 인물, 즉 경찰이라는 걸 알게 된다! 그렇다. 누군가 경찰 내에서 법으로 못 죽이는 악당은 알아서 죽인다고 나서는 사조직이 생긴 것이었다. 그러나 그들은 자신들을 추적하는 경찰까지 죽이면서 이제는 정의와는 벽쌓고 미쳐 돌게 된다. 해리에게도 유혹이 들어오지만 단호히 거절하고 조직은 해리를 위험인물로 여겨 제거하려 드는데...

Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a modern-day tribute to the classic 30s gangster film. Fred Williamson is Tommy Gibbs, a fearless, bulletproof tough guy who blasts his way from the gutter to become the ultimate soul brother boss. Tommy steals a ledger with the name of every crooked cop and man in the city. Enlisting the aid of his father and an army of Harlem hoods, Gibbs goes from defense to offense, launching a deadly attack on his enemies that sets off a violent chain reaction from Harlem all the way to the Caribbean, climaxing in one of the hottest turf-war shoot-outs in Hollywood history.

The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.

College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know where she'll be, the lodge owners arrange her transport and she soon finds herself with two other young women as guests of a kindly old couple. The place is beautiful and the food is fantastic, but something just doesn't seem right. One of the guests has suddenly vanished, and the hosts are certainly reluctant to have anyone poking around the meat locker. Still, the barbecued ribs are delicious, so what's there to complain about?

A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.

A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.