Ruby Dee

Betty and Coretta Betty and Coretta
Betty and Coretta
IMDb: 6.3
90

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

A Thousand Words A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words
IMDb: 5.8
91

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Politics of Love Politics of Love
Politics of Love
IMDb: 3.1
93

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Democratic counterpart: a beautiful Indian-American Obama campaign volunteer. Sparks fly, tempers…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
IMDb: 5.8
56

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black…

American Gangster American Gangster
American Gangster
IMDb: 7.8
157

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.

Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
IMDb: 6.4
1h 53min

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford’s search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel…

Baby Geniuses Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses
IMDb: 2.6
97

Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
IMDb: 9.3
75

This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society. The…

Just Cause Just Cause
Just Cause
IMDb: 6.4
102

Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help…

Cop and a Half Cop and a Half
Cop and a Half
IMDb: 4.2
1h 37min

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is…

Jungle Fever Jungle Fever
Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.6
132

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Do the Right Thing Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 8
120

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Cat People Cat People
Cat People
IMDb: 6.2
1h 58min

After years of separation, Irina and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn…