America’s Dream (1996)
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Duke, Brian Whitley, Jono Oliver, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Leigh Webb, Paris Barclay, Paula Barrett-Barbier, Phil Hardage
Actors: Bennet Guillory, Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Jasmine Guy, Lorraine Toussaint, Norman D. Golden II, Susanna Thompson, Tate Donovan, Tina Lifford, Wesley Snipes
Not Yet a Time for Sorrow (1995)
Mefody, a wise master, comes to a weird village one day to teach local men wisdom and life. The strange thing about the village is all the men living there…
Suffragette (2015)
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Train of Shadows (1997)
A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.
Stolen Daughter (2015)
A female police detective returns to work after suffering PTSD from a previous case, only to have her teenage daughter kidnapped by an emotionally disturbed parolee.
Desperate Riders (2022)
After Kansas Red rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout, the boy asks Red for help protecting his family from the outlaw Thorn, who’s just kidnapped Billy’s mother, Carol. As…
According to Pereira (1995)
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the “Lisboa,” an unaffiliated evening paper. There is a civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power…
Indecent Behavior (1993)
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack…