Margaret Avery

O historiador e crítico cultural Elvis Mitchell traça a evolução e a revolução do cinema negro, de suas origens ao impacto dos filmes da década de 70.

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.

Mary é uma assassina profissional que trabalha para Benny, um gângster que lidera uma família do crime organizado em Boston. Ela tem seu estilo de vida transformado quando conhece um jovem garoto de 12 anos, Danny, que desperta nela um instinto materno nunca sentido antes. Ela não tem escolha se não derrubar quem estiver em seu caminho para salvar o menino das ruas.

A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed...and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.

Para comemorar as Bodas de Ouro de seus pais, o famoso apresentador de talk show, Roscoe Jenkins, volta à sua cidade natal. Depois de anos de ausência e um final de semana repleto de de divertidas confusões, ele começa a repensar as decisões que tomou em sua vida.

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 ...

A história se passa na América alternativa, onde os negros são membros da elite social, e os brancos são habitantes dos guetos das cidades do interior. Louis Pinnock é um trabalhador branco em uma fábrica de chocolate, marido amoroso e pai de dois filhos. Ao entregar um pacote para o CEO negro Thaddeus Thomas, ele é confundido com um voyeur e, como resultado, perde o emprego, é espancado por policiais negros e sua família é despejada de sua casa. Pinnock desesperado pega uma arma e sequestra Thomas, exigindo justiça.

Charlie Thorpe, especialista em sistemas de segurança, é pego durante um assalto. Quando ele é libertado da prisão, ele é contratado por um banco para projetar um sistema à prova de falhas durante a reforma de um banco. Mas logo depois de terminado, ele é chantageado para quebrar a segurança.

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.

Em 1906, em uma pequena cidade da Georgia, sul dos Estados Unidos, a quase adolescente Celie, violentada pelo próprio pai, torna-se mãe de duas crianças. Separada dos filhos, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg, que foi indicada ao Oscar de melhor atriz por este filme em 1985), é doada à Mister (Danny Glover, de Máquina Mortífera), que a trata como companheira e escrava ao mesmo tempo. Cada vez mais calada e solitária, Celie passa a compartilhar sua tristeza em carta.

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, um homem cujos sonhos podem mudar a realidade, tenta suprimir esse presente imprevisível com drogas. O Dr. Haber, um psiquiatra designado, descobre que o presente é real e hipnoticamente induz o Sr. Orr a mudar a realidade para o benefício da humanidade, com resultados bizarros e assustadores.

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 interpreta três papéis diferentes. O primeiro é um catador de laranja pobre chamado Leroy Jones, que é demitido quando, por engano, ele se junta ao sindicato dos trabalhadores rurais durante uma de suas manifestações. Depois disso, ele é forçado a deixar sua esposa e família para trás, que inclui o pai de Leroy (também interpretado por Pryor), para ir para Los Angeles. Acidentalmente, Leroy acaba trabalhando para a mesma empresa que lhe demitiu. Ele agora é um gerente da empresa, mas está distante de seus antigos amigos. Ele conhece e se apaixona por Vanetta (Lonette McKee), uma sindicalista, que absorve o seu tempo, obrigando-o a se desdobrar para atender a esposa Annie Mae (Margaret Avery) e a amante Vanetta. Quando Leroy descobre que o reverendo Thomas Lenox (também interpretado por Pryor) engravida sua esposa enquanto ele estava ausente, tenta se vingar buscando conquistar a esposa do reverendo.

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.

O detetive Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) reaparece para descobrir quem está por trás de uma onda de assassinatos, pois alguém está fazendo justiça com as próprias mãos ao matar os principais chefões do crime de São Francisco.

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.

Casal de Nova Iorque decide se mudar para uma fazenda na área rural da Pensilvânia para viver longe da metrópole com os dois filhos pequenos. Mas a mulher não demora a descobrir que um diabólico ser invisível vive naquela casa e foi o responsável pela morte do habitante anterior. Agora, ela precisa enfrentar o sobrenatural para garantir a sobrevivência dos filhos.