A man can see and talk to people's imaginary friends, befriending those that have been forgotten or discarded. However, some imaginary friends, lacking love and friendship, turn to the dark side and must be stopped.
Ol' Mister
A Cor Púrpura é o filme musical baseado no romance homônimo de Alice Walker. A história é contada a partir das cartas escirtas por uma jovem à Deus. Celie (Fantasia Barrino) é uma mulher afro-americana que vive no sul dos Estados Unidos no começo do século XX. Ela tenta superar os traumas deixados pelo abusos do pai e do marido ao longo dos anos e, para isso, contará com o apoio e a força de um grupo de mulheres que constrói uma irmandade.
Self
O longa-metragem honra o legado do lendário Sidney Poitier (1927- 2022), ator e diretor nascido nas Bahamas, e ativista em meio ao Movimento pelos Direitos Civis em Hollywood.
Benny
Filme de amadurecimento sobre Caleb (Troye Sivan), um adolescente gay do sul da Flórida. Na véspera de sua formatura do ensino médio, tudo muda quando ele é exposto ao HIV. Enquanto espera três meses por seus resultados, ele encontra o amor nos lugares mais improváveis.
Pastor John
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's. As he realizes the extent of the elderly woman's wealth and becomes her caregiver, the young protagonist gets ever-closer to Grandma and the treasure he's been looking for.
God (voice)
Depois de ser baleado cinco vezes por uma gangue de Los Angeles, Tony morre por 30 minutos e tem uma experiência fora do corpo. Ele fala com Deus e decide perdoar.
Pastor Jim
The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick child as a mysterious man is sent to give them hope. Sirls adapted his book for the screen, writing the screenplay with Aviv Rubinstein and Richard Clark Jr.
Luis Garcia
When a young Afghan immigrant named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, a resident with dementia, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
Judge George Taylor
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, which leads to catastrophic results.
Pendle
Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.
Himself
Well known activists the Sherrills brothers address the gang violence in the birth place of the Crips and Bloods.
Self
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
Miles Bryant
A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old showman who takes them to live with his estranged former dancing partner/brother.
Self
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.
Mother
encontro de Jake com a garota dos sonhos toma outro rumo quando ela desaparece. Mas o avô dele, um ex-oficial da inteligencia, está dispostoa encontrá-la.
Coco
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many years abroad. Ostrik reminisces about 1973 and the events surrounding a game his father played which had major consequences for Ostrik’s youth. The dramatic poverty and colourful landscapes provide the background for the leads who represent Curaçao’s melting pot: a story of pride and humiliation, money and love, ambition and hope.
The Bishop
Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who gets caught up in the vibrant Kingston music scene during a visit to Jamaica.
Himself
O legado da icônica escritora, poeta, atriz e ativista Maya Angelou é relembrado através de arquivos raros e íntimos que retratam momentos ocultos de sua vida exuberante ao longo de alguns dos momentos mais marcantes da história dos Estados Unidos, Desde a sua criação no sul da era da Depressão, passando pelo trabalho com Malcolm X em Gana e chegando ao discurso feito na posse de Bill Clinton como presidente, conheça a incrível jornada de vida da Dra. Angelou.
Himself
He played in a record 1,192 consecutive NBA games. As a power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, he won two NBA championships. But what made A.C. Green even more distinctive was the courage of his convictions. As this ESPN 30 for 30 Short points out, Green was a devout Christian who says he maintained his virginity throughout his 16 years in the NBA, nine of them spent in the tempting, hedonistic atmosphere of LA. That didn’t stop him from being a fierce, passionate competitor on the court. It just meant that he was someone who, as teammate James Worthy says, “could stay strong and not be broken.” It was only after he retired after the 2000-01 season that Green got married.
Detective Haven
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.
Lou Jones
Cinco soldados norte-americanos em missão no Afeganistão são capturados e mantidos em cárcere por um dos líderes do Taleban. Quando as autoridades militares dos EUA demoram a agir, os avós dos soldados (uma senhora e quatro idosos), todos também com passado militar, resolvem tomar uma atitude e partem para o Oriente Médio em uma missão de resgate. Unidos pelo amor à família, este improvável grupo de soldados prova que não há barreiras quando se busca justiça.
Cubby
Sailor O'Connor é um boxeador aposentado, que nunca foi nocauteado em toda a sua carreira. Depois de enfrentar alguns traumas, ele decide aceitar uma última luta, contra um boxeador muito mais jovem do que ele. Todos ao redor insistem que este combate é desnecessário, mas Sailor quer retornar aos ringues. Logo, ele conta com a ajuda do antigo treinador para enfrentar o novo desafio.
Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Roy Peddington
It's Christmas Eve and an unexpected delay at the airport has left everyone stranded. Young Joy (Savannah Page Ray from NBC's Parenthood) is traveling on her own to visit family for the holidays, so a retired flight attendant at the airport (Shirley Jones) becomes her travel companion. As they wait with their fellow travelers, they soon learn that everyone can use a Christmas Miracle, especially a young man trying to escape his past, and they join together to help. Allow your spirit to be lifted and your heart to be warned as you watch each person receive their Miracle at Gate 213
Mr. Smith
Smitty é um cachorro abandonado e Ben é um jovem problemático que precisa passar as férias na fazenda de seu avô. Não será fácil para Ben se adaptar, mas ele terá a ajuda do avô, do vizinho dele e do cão.
Bishop Redford
Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Dr. Ezekial Canon.
Grown up Jed
"Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the beloved mascot of the Pennsylvania 102nd, who was so prized by his regiment for his skills in battle that he was twice exchanged for a Confederate prisoner of war.
George Wright
Após perder o filho em um acidente, o policial Mac MacDonald fica revoltado com Deus e com a vida. A raiva atrapalha sua carreira, e a chegada de seu novo parceiro, um pastor, vai obrigá-lo a superar as diferenças e reconstruir seus relacionamentos.
Porter
Os quatro casais escolhem um novo destino para sua reunião anual: Bahamas. O objetivo, como sempre, renovar os votos do matrimônio, trocar experiências de vida enquanto aproveitam para discutir com humor seus respectivos relacionamentos. Mas as coisas complicam quando o ex marido Mike aparece na área disposto a reconquistar Sheila, atualmente casada com Troy. Está aceso o estopim de uma série de questionamentos que surgem também com os outros integrantes do grupo.
Cool Papa Bell
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Samuel Benton
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, he's close to cracking until he meets an elderly custodian who helps him navigate the trials of racism.
Self
Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of African American comedy in America, from the earliest minstrel shows to the latest HBO special. Featuring interviews with cultural critics and loads of comedic clips, this program features appearances by a who's-who of black comedians including Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg and many more.
King Zahn (voice)
Quando um inimigo há muito esquecido retorna, o destino do mundo depende de uma princesa decidida e de um herói por acidente. Embarque numa incrível viagem a um mundo espetacular de magia, fantasia, romance e aventura. Delgo é uma lenda épica de amor, guerra e heroísmo que irá entreter todas as idades do início ao fim.
Self
A follow-up of A LOVE STORY OF TODAY, where actors and crew discuss GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.
Self
A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interview from people like Katharine Houghton, Martin Baum, Louis Gossett, Jr., Norman Jewison, Garry Marshall, Karen Sharpe and Salome Thomas-El.
Himself
As a new chapter begins in this country, THE BLACK LIST offers a dynamic and never-before-heard perspective from achievers of color. This series of inspired - and inspiring - observations on African-American life in the 21st century forms a roll call of some of the most compelling politicians, writers, thinkers and performers ever to tackle their fields of endeavor. Watch the interview-portraits and get a sharper snapshot of where this country has been and where it's headed.
Doc (segment "Club Soda")
Uma compilação de filmes estrelada por grandes astros de Hollywood.
Reunião de vários curtas sobre o mesmo tema: a vida nos Estados Unidos, com seus prazeres e suas dificuldades. Um homem que busca vingança por incidente que aconteceu num jogo quando era criança; Uma mulher que tentou - mas fracassou - o suicídio, vai trabalhar e conhece um homem interessante; Um acidente de carro envolvendo um astro do cinema... E muitos mais!
Detective Hicks
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.
Willie
O mecânico Monty conseguiu a guarda de suas três filhas com muita dificuldade, depois que sua esposa o deixou. De forma inesperada, ela retorna a fim de recuperar as crianças. O mecânico consegue a ajuda da advogada Julia, com quem tem um relacionamento cheio de dúvidas e conflitos.
Self
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
President Ryan Gordon
O Sol começa a emitir metano na atmosfera terrestre, instaurando uma tensão internacional. Cientistas tentam encontrar uma solução para evitar um desastre natural.
Caps
Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker.
Ol'lem Taylor
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
President Geral Fitzhugh
No mundo profetizado do Livro da Revolução, o ícone global e líder mundial Nicolae Carpathia finalmente realizou o inimaginável – ele conseguiu unir o mundo em paz – e dar fim ao derramamento de sangue que dominava mundo desde o começo dos tempo. O presidente norte-americano, Gerald Fitzhugh sempre teve esse sonho e dedicou sua presidência para garantir que a nação mais poderosa do submundo e um relance aterrorizante de uma conspiração sinistra, Fitzugh deve admitir a agonizante verdade – a 3ª Guerra Mundial é iminente – e sua dedicação ao sonho da paz deixou os Estados Unidos da América sem poder de defesa. Com a ajuda do repórter investigativo Buck Williams e seu submundo Comando Tribulação, Fitzhugh luta contra o relógio, as barreiras insuperáveis e sua própria mente fechada para tentar achar uma maneira de impedir a morte de milhões de pessoas e talvez o próprio fim da história.
R.C. Horn
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Raymond Addison
A trio of men with telekinetic powers led by Adrian Geiger rob an armored car. However the skeptical FBI agents Jordan Ripps and her partner Frank McIntyre do not believe in the testimony of the witnesses about there powerful skills. Meanwhile, the former FBI agent Raymond Addison is chasing Geiger....
Dr. Barnes
A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school girls: aspiring singer Temple (Keshia Knight-Pulliam) and her lifelong friends Alex (Angell Conwell) and Breena (Monica McSwain). Attending a weekend college-scholarship retreat, the three heroines endeavor to gain financial support for their chosen academic fields. Along the way, Temple squares off against longtime rival Doreen (Alexis Fields), Alex is distracted by a handsome frat boy, and Breena tries to prove that she's a lot more mature than her hip-hop image.
Col. David Garrett
Quando encontram sinais inteligentes vindos do espaço, um grupo de cientistas logo percebe que toda a atenção da mídia e do exército não veio por eles, mas pelo que a novidade trouxe consigo - eventos inesperados que mudarão a humanidade.
Daniel Stewart
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congress and encountering personal threats to his family.
Executive Producer
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congress and encountering personal threats to his family.
Lou Hastings
Em uma pequena cidade no sul, o filme é centrado em Georgia Potter, uma viúva antiquada (Rowlands), cuja vida muda drasticamente quando sua filha e o genro que ela nunca conheceu morrem em um acidente de carro. Quando ela visita sua neta Jacey no hospital, ela fica chocada ao descobrir que ela é metade negra, mas esconde suas dúvidas e decide criá-la sozinha.
Frank
Postal inspectors investigate a con man who uses the identities of others to falsify credit card purchases. Stealing credit card offers from mail boxes, he obtains cards in others' names, makes many purchases until the card is maxed out, but is always careful to pay minimum balances. According to the story, it is possible for individuals such as this to run many credit cards at a time without being caught.
Phil Bishop
Ziggy é uma garota que tem um sonho simples: reconciliar-se com o pai. Mas tudo fica mais complicado quando ela foge com dois ladrões que roubam a joalheria na qual ela trabalha. É o início de uma fuga alucinada, com muitas perseguições e revelações.
Vernon Jordan
"Fact-based story about the sexual harassment suit filed by Anita Hill during the appointment trials of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court during the George Bush Presidential administration. The film gives both parties a fairly even presentation and does not try to assess blame. It does, however, show a lot of background political maneuvering that took place, particularly on the part of Kenneth Duberstein, an administrative spin doctor."
Morgan
On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal with an unforeseen problem, as they are being alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden somewhere deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millennium bug! It's up to them to race against time to stop it before it is too late and they are doomed!
Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of love and family. Set in the same predominantly black neighbourhood in North Philadelphia, these threecompelling tales tell the stories of an up-and-coming heavyweight boxer, a vegetable vendor, and a man who must protect a family member from the abuse of another.
Director
Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes of love and family. Set in the same predominantly black neighbourhood in North Philadelphia, these threecompelling tales tell the stories of an up-and-coming heavyweight boxer, a vegetable vendor, and a man who must protect a family member from the abuse of another.
Inspector Frank Hughes
U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion immediately falls on the couple's estranged and heavily in debt son, who also just happens to be a Navy munitions expert. But investigations reveal that he is on the run from a past event in his life that is associated with the bombings.
Corbeck
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source of the ghoul's power and find a way to stop it.
Frank Crosby / Richard
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending an afternoon enjoying the atmosphere of Venice Beach. They enter Oddities, a store where the gypsy woman owner gives them a pair of special wingtip shoes. Later that night in the hospital where Frank lay dying, he shares with Clay his memory of a postcard image: a golf course where people are playing and are leisurely sipping tea. Frank dies and leaves behind a distraught family: Clay, his little sister Maggie, and their mother Janice. Clay wistfully goes to his father's closet and finds the wingtips from earlier in the day. Putting them on, he is transported back in time and becomes his father as a child. He discovers he can travel back and forth in time just by putting on or taking off the shoes. Clay learns a great deal about his father's early years and is eager to learn more.
Executive Producer
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending an afternoon enjoying the atmosphere of Venice Beach. They enter Oddities, a store where the gypsy woman owner gives them a pair of special wingtip shoes. Later that night in the hospital where Frank lay dying, he shares with Clay his memory of a postcard image: a golf course where people are playing and are leisurely sipping tea. Frank dies and leaves behind a distraught family: Clay, his little sister Maggie, and their mother Janice. Clay wistfully goes to his father's closet and finds the wingtips from earlier in the day. Putting them on, he is transported back in time and becomes his father as a child. He discovers he can travel back and forth in time just by putting on or taking off the shoes. Clay learns a great deal about his father's early years and is eager to learn more.
Executive Producer
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.
Daniel Stewart
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.
Executive Producer
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
Questioner
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
Bob Kersee
The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Graves disease while becoming the fastest female sprinter in the world. From a setback in Seoul that nearly costs her the use of her feet to her excruciating battle with the crippling illness to victories in Barcelona and Atlanta, Gail proves she's got the heart of a champion in this inspirational original biography. Louis Gossett Jr., Jeffrey Sams, Tina Lifford, Robert Guillaume and Paula Kelly costar.
James Mink
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
Paul
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua to sort out the mess.
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Após aposentar-se, o piloto Charles Sinclair abre escola de vôo com a ajuda do comandante Doug Masters. Mas volta à ação quando dois de seus pupilos esbarram em militares corruptos.
Self
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
Ray Alexander
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
Rueben Tate
Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The killer's name is Zooman (Khalil Kain), and though dozens of neighbors saw the unintentional shooting, no one is willing to come forward with information. Life goes on, a killer goes free, and one grieving, broken father (Louis Gossett Jr.) is forced to take his cry for justice to the media, hoping to spark a confrontation with his daughter's murderer. Charles Dutton and CCH Pounder costar in this powerful original drama.
Executive Producer
Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs. Having lost his entire family to them and not knowing where his young Son is or whether he is alive is what sets this movie apart from others
Narrator
This comprehensive HBO presentation documents the history of heavyweight boxing through the 20th century, beginning with Jess Willard's victory over Jack Johnson in the early 1900s and running through the reign of the controversial Mike Tyson.
Walter Osgood
Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs. Having lost his entire family to them and not knowing where his young Son is or whether he is alive is what sets this movie apart from others
Ben Durand
Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal with. Another officer has been murdered in a hotel room, where he was with a prostitute named Lisa, who managed to escape with her life. Flinder has to track down Lisa to find out what happened, but the answer proves the corruption in his department runs much deeper than he had initially believed.
Ellis
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life.
Prof. Sam Adekunle
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
Ray Alexander
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
Father Dawkins (uncredited)
Pete Bell, um treinador de basquete universitário está sob muita pressão. Sua equipe não está ganhando e ele não pode atrair novos jogadores. As estrelas do futuro estão sendo pagas secretamente por boosters. Esta prática é proibida no jogo da faculdade, mas Pete está desesperado e tem pressões de todos os lados.
Capt. MacCandless
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this
Clay
Drama, African-American Dramas, Made-for-TV Movies - As he approaches the end of a 15-year prison term, an embittered inmate crosses paths with a tough new prisoner and wonders whether he could be the son he left behind years ago. And if so, can the family chain of crime and violence be broken? Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr., Blair Underwood and Rae Dawn Chong co-star in this made-for-television drama also known as Dangerous Relations.
Lou Gosset Jr. is a boss-con. A new prisoner, Blair Underwood, is revealed as his long-lost son. When Underwood is released from jail, the parole board stipulates that Gosset live with him. Gosset gets a job as a car mechanic, and falls in with Rae Dawn Chong. Underwood falls in with his old criminal buddies, who decide to rob the dealership where Chong and Gosset work. Underwood gets cold feet, and the gang turns on him. Gosset stops a bullet meant for his son, who then builds a relationship with the daughter he never knew he had.
Reader
An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front.
'Honey' Roy Palmer
Depois de ser libertado de uma prisão na Geórgia, o vigarista Gabriel Caine (James Woods) une-se ao seu parceiro no crime Fitz (Oliver Platt), e viaja para a remota Diggstown. Ao chegarem, Fitz e Caine apostam com o residente mais rico, ex-gerente de boxe John Gillon (Bruce Dern), que conheçem um cara que pode vencer os dez melhores lutadores da cidade em um dia.
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
O capitão Chappy Sinclair se envolve num caso internacional quando a irmã de um piloto morto recentemente lhe pede ajuda. Eles partem para o Peru atrás do assassino Gustav Kleiss, um ex-nazista e barão das drogas.
Det. James Dela
A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a police detective and a local journalist seems eager to catch him.
James Bragg
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...
Dean Parker
Um grupo de garotos rebeldes tem de enfrentar um grupo de terroristas que vem a toma-los como reféns em um colégio e exigem a libertação de um poderoso traficante de drogas. Mas os próprios garotos irão elaborar um plano para derrota-los.
Sidney Williams
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
Lou Jackson
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and fatal attack on an overseas US naval base, Anderson, a leading investigative journalist and ex-US marine, finds himself back on familiar ground. Instinct makes him question the official CIA explanation that cites an unknown terrorist group called Black October. Alone, and armed only with his combat training and determination to uncover the truth, he sets out to expose a complex and dangerous political web.
Simpson
A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.
Van Leek
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger (Joe Pantoliano) and a no-nonsense cowboy (Louis Gossett Jr.) to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo (Robert Beltran).
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.
Jake Berkowitz
A polícia está em polvorosa devido a uma série de 125 assassinatos realizados. Decidido a acabar com a onda de crimes, Frank Castle toma a dianteira e passa a investigar o caso. Castle é um ex-policial que está em busca de vingança desde que sua esposa e filho foram assassinados, tendo a partir de então se dedicado a combater o crime nas ruas por conta própria. Quando Castle acredita estar com a organização quase destruída, ele passa a enfrentar um novo grupo criminoso, que pretende ocupar o lugar vago.
Fiddler
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Big John Creed
Niki Janus e seus pais fogem da Grécia no final da primeira Guerra Mundial para uma nova vida em Montgomery, West Virginia. Eles estão ansiosos para um novo começo com a mãe Olympia esperando um bebê e a adolescente de 17 anos Niki ansiosa para fazer novos amigos. Mas nem tudo é o que eles esperavam em sua nova casa, especialmente o extremo preconceito contra os habitantes que a cidade considera "diferente", incluindo os novos imigrantes, além da tolerância da população com a Ku Klux Klan.
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Charles Sinclair é chamado para comandar um grupo de pilotos americanos e soviéticos, unidos em uma missão no Oriente Médio. Porém Sinclair logo descobre que conseguir a total colaboração entre os pilotos soviéticos e americanos é o seu menor problema, pois alguém do Pentágono planeja sabotar a missão.
Sam
Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a hooker and her pimp, a romance about a lonely dancer and a black prince, and a musical about a man and a woman having dog problems.
In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled teen and save him from life on the streets.
Jake Phillips
Rick Latimer (James Belushi) é um professor que consegue o emprego de diretor da Brandel High, uma escola com péssima reputação. Na verdade esta transferência foi um castigo, por Latimer ter agredido o namorado da sua esposa, apesar de Rick e sua mulher já estarem em processo de divórcio. Os alunos da Brandel são na maioria afro-americanos e latinos e vários já foram expulsos de outros colégios. Jake Phillips (LOuis Gossett Jr.), o chefe da segurança da escola, logo ensina para o novo diretor como as coisas funcionam em Brandel. Porém Rick não quer aceitar de forma nenhuma que o colégio continue sendo um antro de violência e vendas de drogas. Ele reúne os alunos para uma assembléia e diz que toda a bandalheira reinante em Brandel acabou. Isto faz com que alunos mais rebeldes de revoltem, especialmente o violento Victor Duncan (Michael Wright), que é chefe de uma gangue.
Mathu
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, provoking racial tension that makes a compelling drama.
Leo Porter
Max Donigan (Chuck Norris) parte em busca de um tesouro com o seu amigo Leo e a sua sócia Patricia. Quando encontram o templo com o tesouro de ouro, deparam um "caminho de fogo" que pretende reter o poder dos seus antepassados e pôr um ponto final à caça ao tesouro...
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Um piloto da Força Aérea Americana é abatido em uma missão perto da fronteira de um país do Oriente Médio. Ele acaba se tornando prisioneiro e, após um rápido julgamento, é condenado por espionagem, sendo enforcado em três dias. Assim, seu filho adolescente Doug Masters, é ajudado por seus amigos e elabora um arriscado plano, que consiste em pegar dois jatos da Força Aérea fortemente armados para resgatar seu pai. Para esta missão ele convence o coronel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair, um piloto de caças reformado, para ajudá-lo na missão.
Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan
Dois guerreiros envolvidos em uma selvagem guerra futurística entre a Terra e o planeta Dracon, são abatidos e fazem aterrissagens forçadas em um planeta desolado e inóspito. A princípio, o humano e seu inimigo, um réptil alienígena, estão determinados a destruírem-se mutuamente. Mas após terem que enfrentar as forças da natureza e um ao outro, os dois pilotos perdidos gradualmente percebem que a única maneira de manterem-se vivos é superando o ódio mortal.
John Mack
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
Century
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a coffin and boards a train, pretending to be a soldier bringing home a dead war buddy. He gets more than he bargained for from the train and the coffin.
Calvin Bouchard
O tubarão mais famoso de todos os tempos está de volta... Maior e mais assustador do que nunca nesta nova aventura.
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Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.
Sergeant Emil Foley
Zack Mayo, um homem solitário que cresceu sozinho num bairro pobre, no meio da prostituição e da violência, decide ingressar na Academia Naval. Mayo quer ser piloto de aviões de caça da Marinha. Para isso tem de passar 13 semanas de treino árduo na academia. Reconhecendo os impulsos egoístas de Mayo, o sargento instrutor Emil Foley decide inculcar-lhe as regras básicas da disciplina e do trabalho de equipa. Entretanto, Mayo conhece Paula, uma jovem que trabalha numa fábrica perto da academia, e os dois envolvem-se.
Benny Moore
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
Leo Garcia
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husband. She hires two charming gunrunners as help, but they suspect her shady competitor.
Tom Hayward
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Everett Walker
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Dr. MacArthur St. Clair
An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.
Rex
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who is not understood by those closest to him and who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes.
Calvin Motts
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Henri Cloche
Um casal de jovens turistas se envolve em um perigoso conflito com caçadores de tesouros quando eles descobrem a localização de um naufrágio nas águas das Bermudas. Com longas sequências subaquáticas e um olhar sobre os assuntos da caça ao tesouro. Baseado em um romance de Peter 'Jaws' Benchley. (Estimado 14 Anos - e 14)
Russ Garfield
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficulty escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
Rev. Elija Bliss
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.
Dr. Dudley Stanton
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Otis James
The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies, ex-convicts, and others.
Black Bart
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
Portagee
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Jason O'Rourke
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw.
Sam Brockington
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated.
Insp. James Larrimore SFPD
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.
Wordsworth
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Jason O'Rourke
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
Copee Johnson
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Tembo
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head
Lt. Adam McKay
Um dos pacientes em um grupo de terapia revela-se um assassino.
George Murchison
A família Younger, frustada com a vida em seu espremido apartamento em Chicago, vê a chegada de um cheque de dez mil dólares de um seguro como a resposta para suas preces. A matriarca Lena Younger imediatamente usa-o como parte do pagamento de uma casa num subúrbio cujos vizinhos são, em sua maioria, brancos. Mas a família se divide quando Lena confia a aplicação do dinheiro ao irrequieto filho Walter Lee, contra os desejos de sua filha e da nora.
Mary's Brother
In pursuance of a lucrative government contract, a private company hires its first Black female employee to comply with government regulations concerning equal economic opportunity.
Lou Adams
Two U.S. Korean War Veterans hilariously recreate their wartime experiences - and ultimately vanquish a painful shared battlefield memory -- by challenging one another to a spirited game of paintball 'capture the flag' for the right to raise the American flag each morning in their retirement community.
An emotionally vulnerable young man gets tricked into fulfilling a mysterious young woman’s dying wish by taking her on a cross-country road trip.
Self - Host
Portrait of six criminals responsible of diverse agressions.
