Margaret Avery

Культурный критик и историк Элвис Митчелл рассказывает об эволюции (и революции) кино о чернокожих людях от его истоков до эпохи знаменитых фильмов 1970-х годов.

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.

Жизнь преподносит самые неожиданные сюрпризы, в местах, где их точно не ждешь. Особенно остро эта проблема встает перед женщиной по имени Мэри. На первый взгляд, она простая, строгая и холодная особа, вот только это лишь вершина большого айсберга. Ведь на самом деле, девушка занимается очень нехарактерной работой - она киллер и убивает людей за деньги. На ее долю, выпало очередное задание, по устранению крупного наркоторговца. С делом она, конечно же справляется без особых проблем и устраняет свою цель. Вот только последствия окажутся самыми невероятными из всех возможных. Она и сама не думала, что все может сложиться в таком виде. Жертвой ее стал действительно человек нехороший, но у него остался малолетний сын, который теперь лишен всех своих родственников. Именно в этот момент, в женщине проявляется жалость и материнские чувства, которые заставляют ее взять мальчика к себе. Она в одно мгновение теряет собственную убежденность в правильности своего дела...

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.

Отец-одиночка становится ведущим рейтингового ток-шоу и в мгновение ока его жизнь превращается в сказку — платиновая кредитная карточка, звезда-невеста. Однако, когда он возвращается в семейное гнездо на 50-летнюю годовщину свадьбы своих родителей, его новые ценности не выдерживают испытания.

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 ...

Луис - простой служащий. Таддеуш - преуспевающий бизнесмен. Один тяжелым трудом зарабатывает себе на хлеб. Другой волен распоряжаться судьбами многих подчиненных. Обычная жизненная ситуация - увольнение Луиса - взрывает безмятежную жизнь Таддеуша. За потерю работы Луис назначает свою цену - похищение. Он готов перешагнуть грань закона, избрать путь погонь и обмана, чтобы отомстить за крушение своих надежд.

Чарли Торп, эксперт по системам безопасности, пойман в ходе разбойного нападения. Когда он был освобожден из тюрьмы, владелец банка нанял его для разработки системы безопасности своего банка во время его ремонта. После того как Чарли завершил работу, он подвергся шантажу с целью взлома его собственной системы безопасности.

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.

Действие фильма происходит в начале XX века в небольшом городке в штате Джорджия, где еще сильны вековые традиции прежнего уклада южных штатов. В центре картины — жизнь героини Силии, чье стремление найти себя в мире, закрытом для нее, превращается в триумф жестокости, которую преодолела любовь, и боли, которую затмила радость. В первый раз мы встречаемся с Силией, когда ей 14 лет, и она беременна… от своего отца. Дальнейшее действие картины повествует о сложной судьбе героини, которая на своем жизненном пути познала много бед и лишений, прежде чем смогла обрести независимость.

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.

Таинственная волна убийств потрясла весь преступный мир. Один за другим погибают криминальные авторитеты, избежавшие судебного наказания. Им воздается по справедливости, которую одобрил бы своей очаровательной улыбкой полицейский детектив Гарри Кэллэхэн (Клинт Иствуд).

Не смотря на финал первой ленты Томми Гиббс оказывается живее всех живых и усилиям папаши Гиббса отправляют в Гарлемскую больницу, а компромат на нью-йоркских чиновников прячут. Пока Гиббс младший лежит в больничке, отец поднимает криминальный бизнес.

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.