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A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Petrie
featuring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon

While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking when first released in 1961, and a wealth of future plays, films, and TV productions have taken their lead from this socially conscious drama about a struggling African-American family. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) is a ...

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The Stand

The Stand (1994) more movies like this

directed by Mick Garris
featuring Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe

Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus ...

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Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses (1999) more movies like this

directed by Bob Clark
featuring Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, Ruby Dee

Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is the highly visible chief executive of BABYCO, the world's largest manufacturer of baby products. The company funds orphanages across the world and just opened an indoor theme park for children adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to the public, Kinder, with the help of Dr. Heep ...

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Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) more movies like this

directed by Darnell Martin
featuring Lorraine Toussaint, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ruby Dee, Terrence Howard, Halle Berry, Michael Ealy

Originally telecast March 6, 2005, by ABC, this "Oprah Book Club" TV movie is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, a certified classic of African-American literature. Covering the first 30 years of the 20th century, the film is set in Eatonville, FL, a largely black community and the home of free-spirited Janie ...

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Cat People

Cat People (1982) more movies like this

directed by Paul Schrader
featuring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee

In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans. Flash forward to 1980's New Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), a minister, for the ...

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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years (1999) more movies like this

directed by Lynne Littman
featuring Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Amy Madigan, Lisa Anderson, Audra McDonald

Based on the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, which was later adapted into a Broadway play, Having Our Say tells the true story of the Delany Sisters, two African-American women who were fathered by a former slave, went on to attend college, and witnessed the slow but steady advance of civil rights ...

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The Jackie Robinson Story

The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers, Richard Lane

Despite its lack of production values and box-office "names," The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed. Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson plays himself, and quite well indeed. The film traces Robinson's career from his college days, when he excelled as a track star at Pasadena ...

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Cop and a Half

Cop and a Half (1993) more movies like this

directed by Henry Winkler
featuring Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee, Holland Taylor, Ray Sharkey

When an eight-year-old black youth (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a mob hit, he orders the police to make him a cop for a day before he will help identify the killer. Detective Nick McKenna (Burt Reynolds) is the unfortunate assigned to the case. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Passing Glory

Passing Glory (1999) more movies like this

directed by Steve James
featuring Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Sean Squire, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn

Set in the institutionally segregated New Orleans of 1965, the made-for-cable Passing Glory is the story of black priest Father Joseph Verrett (Andre Braugher) and his efforts to arrange the first integrated high-school basketball game in the city's history. Against the wishes of trepid white parish leader Father Robert Grant (Rip Torn), Fr. ...

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Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever (1991) more movies like this

directed by Spike Lee
featuring Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Anthony Quinn, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions of an interracial affair upon two very distinct communities. Wesley Snipes is Flipper, a happily married and successful architect, and Annabella Sciorra is Angie, an office temp. When she starts working in ...

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Finding Buck McHenry (2000) more movies like this

directed by Charles Burnett
featuring Michael Schiffman, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Ernie Banks

A boy discovers that his coach may be more than just a nice old man who likes baseball in this family-oriented drama. Jason, a kid who loves baseball, is not doing very well with his Little League team, and he is bumped from the regular line-up to an "expansion team" of kids who aren't making the grade. Determined to make good, Jason recruits a ...

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The Wall (1998) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring Edward James Olmos, Ruby Dee, Savion Glover

At the shiny black length of the Vietnam wall, visitors come to pay respects and often leave behind mementos. This drama looks at the moving stories behinds three such tiny tributes. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Zora is My Name! (1990) more movies like this

directed by Neema Barnette
featuring Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr., Roger E. Mosley, Flip Wilson

A PBS "American Playhouse" production, this is an amusing TV outing revealing the life of Zora Neale Hurston, a black writer known for her folklore and stories from the rural South of the 1930s and 1940s. Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

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Buck and the Preacher (1972) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Poitier
featuring Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte

Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War. Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Army soldier who is scouting sites for the former slaves that want to settle out West. The villainous Deshay (Cameron Mitchell) rounds up his gang to try to stop Buck because he wants to keep the ...

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Purlie Victorious (1963) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Webster
featuring Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Sorrell Booke, Godfrey Cambridge, Hilda Haynes

This film version of the successful stage play was written by and stars Ossie Davis as Purlie Victorious, a flamboyant, self ordained minister. Along with wife Lutibelle (Ruby Dee), he returns to Georgia to buy an old barn and convert it into a church. He seeks out Captain Cotchipec (Sorrel Booke), the aging plantation owner entrusted with a $500 ...

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A Storm in Summer (2000) more movies like this

directed by Robert Wise
featuring Peter Falk, Aaron Meeks, Nastassja Kinski, Andrew McCarthy, Ruby Dee

Robert Wise brings his distinguished name and considerable directorial skill to this remake of a 1970 Rod Serling TV drama. Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick (Peter Falk), a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley (Andrew McCarthy) who lives ...

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Jazztime Tale (1992) more movies like this

directed by Michael Sporn
featuring Ruby Dee

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All About Us (2007) more movies like this

directed by Christine Swanson
featuring Boris Kodjoe, Ryan Michelle Bathe, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Raven Goodwin, Ruby Dee

Award-winning filmmaker Christine Swanson follows up her feature debut All About You) with this romantic drama concerning two desperate Hollywood filmmakers who make the journey from Los Angeles to Mississippi in hopes of convincing Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman to take the lead in their latest production. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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