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A Woman Called Moses
7.7

A Woman Called Moses

Dec. 11, 1978

A Woman Called Moses

A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, ...
A Fall from Grace
5.9

A Fall from Grace

Jan. 17, 2020

A Fall from Grace

When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Alex Cross
5.2

Alex Cross

Oct. 18, 2012

Alex Cross

Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line ...
Why Did I Get Married Too?
4.7

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the ...
Relative Stranger
6.5

Relative Stranger

Mar. 14, 2009

Relative Stranger

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Madea’s Family Reunion
5.3

Madea’s Family Reunion

Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles – Vanessa moves into ...
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
5.7

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen ...
Idlewild
6.2

Idlewild

Aug. 25, 2006

Idlewild

A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the ...
Because of Winn-Dixie
6.4

Because of Winn-Dixie

Feb. 18, 2005

Because of Winn-Dixie

A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names ...
The Rosa Parks Story
7.2

The Rosa Parks Story

Feb. 24, 2002

The Rosa Parks Story

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Jewel
6.4

Jewel

Feb. 07, 2001

Jewel

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down’s syndrome.
A Lesson Before Dying
6.7

A Lesson Before Dying

May. 22, 1999

A Lesson Before Dying

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates ...
Always Outnumbered
7.2

Always Outnumbered

Mar. 21, 1998

Always Outnumbered

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his ...
Hoodlum
6.3

Hoodlum

Aug. 27, 1997

Hoodlum

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs ...
Fried Green Tomatoes
7.7

Fried Green Tomatoes

Dec. 27, 1991

Fried Green Tomatoes

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie ...
Bustin’ Loose
6

Bustin’ Loose

May. 22, 1981

Bustin’ Loose

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
The River Niger
6

The River Niger

Apr. 14, 1976

The River Niger

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally ...
The Blue Bird
5.4

The Blue Bird

Apr. 05, 1976

The Blue Bird

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy ...
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
7.8

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just ...
Sounder
7.5

Sounder

Sep. 24, 1972

Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for ...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
7.6

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a ...
A Man Called Adam
6.6

A Man Called Adam

Mar. 16, 1966

A Man Called Adam

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.