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
История 3 афроамериканских женщин, помогающих друг другу в нелегких условиях жизни на юге США в начале XX века. Женщины сталкиваются в своей жизни со многими трудностями, но в конечном счете обретают необычайную силу и надежду в нерушимые узы сестринства. Американский музыкально-драматический фильм Блитца Базавуле по одноименному роману Элис Уокер.
Self
Этот откровенный документальный фильм от продюсера Опры Уинфри посвящается легендарному Сидни Пуатье — культовому актеру, режиссеру и борцу за гражданские права. В фильме представлены интервью с Дензелом Вашингтоном, Спайком Ли, Барброй Стрейзанд и многими другими.
Benny
Перед окончанием средней школы Калеб узнает, что, вероятно, заразился ВИЧ. Пока в течение трех месяцев он ждет результатов теста, чтобы узнать, есть у него ВИЧ или нет, он находит любовь в самых неожиданных местах.
Pastor John
После жизни, полной мелких афер, эгоцентричный миллениал приговорен заботиться о своей бабушке, страдающей болезнью Альцгеймера. По мере осознания масштабов ее богатства, он приближается к сокровищу, которое так долго искал.
God (voice)
Shot five times by a Los Angeles gang, leaving ten bullet holes through his body, Tony died for thirty minutes and had an out-of-body experience, where he talks with God and makes a choice to forgive.
Pastor Jim
Когда в маленьком городке появляется загадочный человек, начинают происходить необъяснимые чудеса, меняющие жизни всех, кого он встречает. Есть мать, у которой пятилетний сын болен лейкемией, два врача — один атеист, преследуемый своим прошлым, другой — блестящий молодой онколог, возлагающий все свои надежды на силу современной медицины, — и слепой пастор, чей сын заболел. не произнес ни слова за 38 лет. Все они будут объединены присутствием этого незнакомца, который учит их истинному смыслу веры и надежды.
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
Майкл Трэйнер – юрист, а Джамал – озлобленный юноша, которого заключили в тюрьму после многих лет жестокого обращения в разных приёмных семьях. Вместе они должны разоблачить влиятельную в системе опеки детей компанию Белькор.
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
Когда девушка Джейка пропадает без вести, ему на помощь приходит его дедушка со своими армейскими приятелями.
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
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.
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
Action / Comedy - Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last explosive mission. The team quickly discovers that they are up against an enemy from their past. This time, The Dependables mission is personal. With guns blazing, the group puts their lives on the line to defeat their arch nemesis and save their grandchildren.
Cubby
Терзаемый трагическим прошлым, непобеждённый бывший боксёр Сэйлор О`Коннор — человек, сломленный жизнью. Сэйлор решает ухватиться за неожиданную возможность вновь вернуться на ринг. Его противник — моложе и быстрее, но при поддержке своей старой команды Сэйлор вступает в последний бой. Боксёр не умеет сдаваться, и ему придётся либо побороть собственных демонов, либо погибнуть, пытаясь остаться на ногах во время кровавого, жестокого избиения на ринге.
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 is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a lovable mutt. With help from the unlikely canine companion, Ben learns the importance of friendship, family and responsibility.
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
Потеряв сына в результате несчастного случая, Мак МакДональд последующие 17 лет живет разъедаемый горечью и болью. Любовь навсегда покидает его сердце и наполняется злобой ко всему, включая Бога. Слепая ярость разрушает его карьеру полицейского, а семейные отношения превращаются в склоки, которыми полны улицы Мемфиса. Ему становится туго с деньгами, он отмахивается от жены и бросает на произвол судьбы воспитание оставшегося в живых второго сына — Блейка, который заводит неправильные связи и находится под угрозой отчисления из школы.
Porter
Во время ежегодного отпуска на Багамах собираются четыре семейные пары отдохнуть, а заодно и обсудить свои семейные взаимоотношения. Недельный отдых прерывается прибытием бывшего супруга одной из дам. Бывший муж Майк надеется разрушить новый брак своей благоверной и вернуть ее себе. Другие семьи начинают понимать, что их брак тоже не застрахован от измен и предательств. Постепенно нарастает напряжение и недоверие по отношению друг к другу, которое приводит к необычному повороту событий. Семейная жизнь каждой пары теперь висит на волоске, и по приезду домой, они должны выбрать: обвинить ли друг друга или поверить и простить.
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)
В экзотическом мире живут две расы: люди-черепахи локки и люди-бабочки норны. Локки правят землей, норны — небом, поэтому живут они раздельно, в состоянии хрупкого мира. И все шло тихо-мирно, пока у Дельго, наивного, мечтательного подростка, не возникли проблемы личного характера. Его обвинили в преступлении, которого он, как водится, не совершал. Благополучно сбежав из тюрьмы, Дельго узнаёт, что миру грозит серьёзный конфликт между локки и норнами, и теперь юному мечтателю необходимо при помощи отряда своих друзей объединить две столь различные расы против общего врага.
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")
Ten individuals set out to find themselves in an alienating world, filled with heartbreak, deception and tragedy. With so much at stake, these strangers struggle to overcome their fates and find their place in a frequently harsh and unforgiving world.
Detective Hicks
Психологическая драма об обвиняемой в убийстве, которого она не совершала женщине, которая, пытаясь доказать свою невиновность, рассказывает детективам удивительную историю о нескольких последних месяцах своей жизни…
Willie
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy League-educated attorney. Monty and Julia couldn't be less alike, but a flame is ignited...touching off a firestorm of love and conflict.
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
When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.
Caps
Еще молодой девочкой, Алисию Андерсон отец обучил математике игры в техасский покер. Но этот мир пришел к концу, когда отец погиб в автокатастрофе. Годы спустя, поступив в мединститут, ей придется вспомнить все, чему ее научил отец. Ее друзья-студенты объединяют свои силы, чтобы создать идеальную машину для игры в покер. Но, когда ставки увеличиваются, Алисия понимает то, чему ее учил отец — чтобы выжить, нужно идти до конца.
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
A year and a half ago the world was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warning and without explanation, hundreds of millions of people simply vanished off the face of the earth. The world was in chaos like it had never been before. Yet somehow one man seemed to rise to the challenge. One man had the strength and conviction to unite a shattered world. One man gave the world hope. That man was NICOLAE CARPATHIA. He now rules the entire world.
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
In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder confirming an extraterrestrial signal. Emmett Shaw, the powerful, charismatic billionaire who owns the observatory, rushes to the station, hungry to expose the discovery. This is the biggest moment in human history and he is the man responsible for it all. With the goal of immediately sharing the signal with the entire world, he brings along two leading journalists--Kara Walsh, an extremely attractive, top-notch investigative reporter who begrudgingly owes her career to Shaw, and Reverend Fletcher, a new age visionary with the hottest radio show in the country. Also accompanying Shaw is Jack Jones, a scruffy but brilliant computer technician whose pessimistic and often sarcastic attitude ruffles many feathers in the group--especially Smitty's, the program director, who happens to be Jack's ex-girlfriend and the only Christian in the group.
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
Set in a small town in the South, movie centers on Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow (Rowlands), whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-law she never met die in a car crash. When she visits her granddaughter Jacey in the hospital, she’s shocked to discover that she’s half black, but conceals her misgivings and decides to raise her by herself.
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
Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry store thief whose grip on reality is frighteningly precarious. With his accomplice Panda, the duo make off with a carload of cash, a result of a tip-off from beautiful cashier Ziggy. Her reward: to hitch a ride with the out-of-control duo so that she can meet her long-lost father Francis. But Breakfast is on a suicidal quest to even a score with his former boss and has the cops hot on his trail. Rage, murder and revenge are about to collide!
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
В 12,01 первого дня нового тысячелетия миллионы компьютеров по всему миру дали сбой. Одни прервали вещание телевизионных программ, другие стали причиной головной боли менеджеров на Уолт-стрит… Компьютер, управляющий хранилищем американских ядерных ракет, решил, что США подверглось ядерному нападению и запустил программу ответного удара. Несмотря на введенные коды отмены запуска, компьютер начал обратный отчет времени. Всего 24 часа есть у отчаянной команды, состоящей из инженера-разработчика ракет, бесстрашного офицера ЦРУ и юного компьютерного гения, чтобы сквозь наводненные бандами наркодельцов джунгли прорваться к засекреченной базе и предотвратить мировую ядерную катастрофу.
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
В свое время летчик-ас Даг Мастерс теперь работает на забытом Богом и людьми аэродроме и потихоньку пьянствует. Генерал Синклер предлагает ему преподавать в летной школе для подростков. Но это не просто подростки! У каждого из них - богатейший «послужной список» различных преступлений! Одна из учениц, торговка наркотиками по кличке «Колеса», решила обмануть наркомафию и продала сахар вместо кокаина. Завязалась драка, но девчонка успела удрать на своем учебном «кукурузнике». Сверху она заметила грузовик с оружием, о чем и рассказала Дагу и Синклеру...
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
Комедия, действие которой развивается на фоне африканской экзотики в государстве Кинджаджага, где волею судьбы оказался главный герой — молодой английский дипломат. Скука африканской жизни, перемежаемая лишь эротическими приключениями, вдруг нарушается, когда герой после очередного любовного приключения обнаруживает у себя неизвестную «африканскую болезнь», которая оказывается ничем иным, как шуткой «хорошего человека в Африке» — доктора Мюррея. Он же и помогает герою выпутаться из сложнейшей политико-социальной интриги, в которую его втягивает соблазнительная жена кандидата в президенты.
Ray Alexander
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
Father Dawkins (uncredited)
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
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
Даже попав в тюремные застенки, отпетый мошенник не теряет времени даром, зарабатывая капитал на организации побегов. Оказавшись на свободе, он вместе со своим напарником организует тотализатор на боксерских поединках…
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Бывшие нацисты захватили перуанскую деревню и хотят превратить её в опорную базу для своих операций по торговле кокаином. Анне удалось сбежать, она отправилась в США и, встретив там бравого лётчика Чаппи Синклера, попросила о помощи. Конечно, Чаппи не мог отказать. Он обратился к своему начальству за поддержкой, и тут выяснилось, что генерал, с которым Чаппи беседовал, сотрудничает с нацистами, а через базу ВВС США проходит контрабанда наркотиков. Тогда герой привлёк к операции трёх пожилых, но ещё бодрых пилотов. На истребителях времён Второй мировой войны отважные лётчики летят на помощь южноамериканским крестьянам.
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
Когда учащиеся элитарного колледжа взяты в заложники южноамериканскими террористами, им ничего не остается, как вступить в смертельную схватку. Сержант армии встает во главе отряда студентов в их отчаянной попытке противостоять террору.
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
Американский журналист Майк Андерсен пытается докопаться до истины в истории нападения на пост ВМС США возле Тель-Авива. Очень скоро Андерсон понимает, что его жизнь в опасности, так как выясняет, что нападение террористов на американскую военную базу — это всего лишь «дымовая завеса», прикрытие, которое должно отвлечь внимание от гораздо более значительной угрозы. Убийцы открывают на Андерсона настоящую охоту, чтобы помешать отважному журналисту раскрыть все правду и остановить чудовищную диверсию, которую террористы — религиозные фанатики специально приурочили к Страстной Пятнице и которая может привести к третьей мировой войне.
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
Билли Рей - молодой учитель литературы из Техаса. Но сейчас он не на уроке. Есть проблема - он должен поймать закоренелого преступника по кличке Дьявол. Этот бандит не только ограбил местный банк, но и украл ученицу Билли, симпатичную Нэнси Тулин. Однако Билли не умеет ни держаться в седле, ни стрелять. Помощь приходит к нему в обличье весёлого ковбоя Томаса. Тут-то и начинаются настоящие приключения.
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
Полицейский Фрэнк Кастл с трудом пережил гибель семьи, его жена и дочь сгорели живьем во взорванном автомобиле. Теперь он стал судьей и палачом 125 гангстеров, которых он разыскал и приговорил к смерти. Его невозможно остановить. Но у него слишком много врагов…
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
The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the American Dream. Among their friends is Big John Creed, a wise and helpful handyman. But Niki's friendship with him and her belief in freedom unwittingly bring the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan to her very doorstep. Full of courage and passion, Niki challenges the powerful Klan and, at the same time, must overcome her own fears to help the townspeople survive a horrible flu epidemic.
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Некое неназванное ближневосточное государство угрожает Советскому Союзу и США межконтинентальными баллистическими ракетами с ядерными боеголовками. Для устранения опасности создана объединённая советско-американская боевая группа под командованием полковника ВВС США Чарльза «Чаппи» Синклера (по ходу фильма быстро дослужившегося до бригадного генерала). Чтобы решить поставленную задачу, отряду необходимо преодолеть помехи со стороны политиков, а также культурные и личностные противоречия в своих рядах.
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
Рик разъезжает на лихом мотоцикле и разгуливает с бейсбольной битой. Но он — не бандит и не трудный подросток. Рик — новый директор школы, самой худшей в районе, да и в мире, пожалуй. Вместо литературы и математики ученики увлечены драками и наркотиками. Только сумасшедший рискнет изменить существующий порядок. Однако Рик — талантливый учитель. Вместо указки он берет свою любимую биту. Кто сказал, что бить учеников не педагогично?
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
У Патриции Гудвин есть карта, которая может привести к золотому кладу ацтеков. Но в одиночку хрупкой женщине с такой миссией не справиться! Поэтому она нанимает двух дюжих авантюристов, готовых за золотые посулы пройти вместе с ней сквозь огонь и воду. Это Макс и его приятель Лео. Троица охотников за древностями отправляется в путь, который будет полон и опасностей, и препятствий, и смешных моментов! Если их дерзкий план будет осуществлен, трое друзей вернутся домой богачами!
Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair
Восемнадцатилетний Даг Мастерс научился летать на реактивном истребителе раньше, чем получил права на вождение автомобиля. Он хочет во всем походить на своего отца, полковника Теда Мастерса. Даг подает свои документы в летную школу, но его не принимают из-за плохой успеваемости.
Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan
В глубинах нашей галактики, на огромном расстоянии от Земли люди ведут кровопролитную войну с расой рептилий. Войну, которой Земля отдает последние силы, войну на полное уничтожение. В одной из жестоких схваток в окрестностях гористой планеты в системе двойной звезды пилот Виллис Дэвидж сбивает машину чужого, но тут же получает несколько попаданий и выходит из боя. Единственное место, где можно выжить после падения — та самая планета. Но упав, он обнаруживает, что сбитый им чужой не погиб. Смертельные враги оказываются заперты в одной клетке, и выбор прост — уничтожить друг друга или заключить перемирие и попытаться спастись. Что окажется сильнее: желание жить или ненависть и боль за погибших?
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
Руководство крупнейшего во Флориде океанического парка развлечений после появления в прибрежных водах большой белой акулы решает поймать её для дополнительного привлечения туристов.Спустя некоторое время работники парка Майк Броди и Кетлин Морган понимают, что пойманная ими акула — детёныш, а в акваторию проникла её огромная мамаша…
narrator
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
Зак Мэйо поступает в военное училище, готовящее пилотов морской авиации. Но даже в страшных снах не могло привидеться ему, через какой ад придется пройти, когда за него возьмется жестокий инструктор Фоули.
После трех месяцев невыносимой муштры Зак вполне прочувствовал, что такое армейская дисциплина, и, несмотря на все предупреждения о коварстве местных девушек, якобы только и мечтающих, как бы заполучить себе в мужья летчика, Зак влюбляется в одну из них. Но, несмотря на все препятствия, герой фильма все же станет превосходным офицером и обретет настоящую любовь.
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
Супруги Гейл и Дэвид проводят отпуск на экзотическом бермудском острове. Во время подводной охоты им достается роскошная и опасная добыча: они находят затонувший испанский корабль, который набит несметными сокровищами.
Искатели приключений и не подозревают, с чем им предстоит столкнуться в погоне за кладом. В конце концов, они оказываются на краю бездны, где любое неверное движение может стоить жизни.
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
1896 год, Арктика, Канадское Заполярье. Эскимосы спасают трех китобоев, затерявшихся в конце 90-х годов прошлого века возле Северного Полюса. А началось все с того, что шестеро американских китобоев преследуют на гребной шлюпке загарпуненного кита. Неожиданно, опасная погоня превратилась в игру с судьбой, — перевернувшаяся лодка ушла под воду, трое моряков погибают. Выжившая троица обречена — вокруг только бескрайний лед и безжизненный белый горизонт. И все же это — не конец рискованной охоты, а только начало.
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
Одной из жертв массового убийства в Сан-Франциско оказывается полицейский Эванс. Отдел убийств пытается раскрыть преступление, проверяя личности погибших.
Wordsworth
На похоронах своей матери банковский клерк Генри Пуллинг знакомится со своей тетей Аугустой, немолодой эксцентричной женщиной, которая втягивает его в водоворот приключений…
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
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
George Murchison
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
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.
Ирландец Арти Кроуфорд только что похоронил жену. Пенсионер сбегает из дома престарелых, чтобы почтить память боевых товарищей и провести годовщину Дня Д на берегу Франции.
