Jean-Claude LaMarre Filmography

Johnson Family Dinner

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lynn Conner, Toni Sterrett, Jerard Jones, Ashlie Shyne

Synopsis: This comedy drama focuses on the trials and tribulations that a family goes through, always reconnecting over Sunday dinner. As a mother and father observe the sometimes difficult events of their grown children's lives, they have to pick when and where to become involved. From Alex, who opened a Read More

Miss B's Hair Salon

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The comedy Miss B's Hair Salon concerns the efforts by a community to keep a beloved local beauty shop from being closed by gangsters. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Pastor Jones 4: Sisters in Spirit

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude LaMarre, Christina Johnson, Dinora Walcott, Harace Carpenter

Synopsis: When a handsome young pastor arrives to lead a new congregation, the daughters of the former pastor both compete to win his affections in this religious drama from director Jean Claude Lamarre. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tatyana Ali, Stacey Dash, Bobby Brown, Mekhi Phifer

Synopsis: The stars of Nora's Hair Salon return, along with some fresh new faces, in this sequel that finds Nora's estranged nieces at odds over what to do with their aunt's bustling business. Nora has willed her salon to her beloved nieces Lilliana (Tatyana Ali) and Simone (Stacey Dash), and now the two Read More

Black Woman's Guide to Getting Married

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude LaMarre, Will Young

Synopsis: Director Kevin Du Toit pays tribute to the day that most men and women dream about with this romantic comedy tracing the relationships between four black women and the men they long to marry. Finding that special someone can take a lifetime, so it's always important to make good choices while Read More

Don't Touch If You Ain't Prayed 2

Synopsis: A young woman attempting to start a new life finds her faith challenged at every turn as she leaves home for college and befriends a fellow student with a dark secret. The time has come for Noelle (Eurika Pratts) to strike out on her own, and after packing her bags and saying goodbye to her Read More

R&B Chick

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Christina Johnson, Dylan Mooney, Yvette Saunders

Synopsis: An aspiring R&B singer finds her priorities suddenly shifting after becoming the target of an attempted rape. Sterling (Christina Johnson) was an ambitious Mississippi vocalist who packed her bags for Los Angeles with little more than a hope and a prayer. Upon arriving in the big city Sterling Read More

Color of the Cross

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude LaMarre, Debbi Morgan, David Gianopoulos, Elya Baskin, Jacinto Taras Riddick

Synopsis: Actor/director/screenwriter Jean-Claude La Marre offers a controversial new vision of religious history with this interpretation of the Bible that presents Jesus Christ as a black man and suggests that the crucifixion, may, in fact, have been racially motivated. By exploring the last 48 hours in Read More

Brothers in Arms

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Carradine, Gabriel Casseus, Antwon Tanner, Kurupt, Raymond Cruz

Synopsis: Principled gangsters take on a corrupt moneyman in this period Western. Robert Driscol (David Carradine) is a ruthless and power-hungry man who owns a small New Mexico town lock, stock, and barrel, and isn't shy about dealing with anyone who gets in his way. Linc Malone (Gabriel Casseus) and his Read More

Go for Broke 2

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When a vengeful correctional office takes their best friend hostage, two close friends go to great lengths to free their pal in this cross-dressing caper comedy from freshman director John Myrick. Ramses (Glenn Plummer) is in trouble, and if his buddies John and Darnell don't come up with the Read More

Pastor Jones

Synopsis: Jean Claude LaMarre's Pastor Jones concerns a woman who, after being inspired by a sermon from the title character, leaves her abusive husband. The pastor provides her with a place to stay and a job, causing some parishioners to gossip about their relationship. Her husband is at first incensed Read More

County General

Synopsis: Sphear Collins' comedy County General begins when a failing film student begins making a documentary about the hospital where his girlfriend works. Luckily for him, he captures a protest directed at the hospital. Unfortunately, he uncovers some truths about the hospital that some of the bigwigs Read More

Higher Ed

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pras

Synopsis: The debut feature from writer/director/actor Jean-Claude LaMarre, Higher Ed stars rapper/actor Pras as Ed Green, a young track star from New York who jumps at the opportunity to accept a scholarship to a quaint Southern college. Unfortunately for Ed, his big-city problems follow him to his new Read More

Nora's Hair Salon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jenifer Lewis, Tamala Jones, Tatyana Ali

Synopsis: Hot gossip and cool hairdos sit side-by-side in this independent comedy-drama. Nora (Jenifer Lewis) is the owner of her own hair salon in an African-American community in Los Angeles, and she watches over her "family" of employees, as well as an assortment of friends, relatives, and regular Read More

Gang of Roses

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Calhoun, Stacey Dash, LisaRaye, Marie Matiko, Lil' Kim

Synopsis: It's Young Guns meets Set It Off in this hip-hop take on the time-tested revenge Western. In the placid frontier town of Flatridge, sisters Sally (Licia Shearer) and Rachel (Monica Calhoun) live in relative peace -- until a roving gang of gold-diggers tear up the burgh, looking for buried riches. Read More

Go For Broke

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Pras, Michael A. Goorjian, LisaRaye, Bobby Brown, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: Jean Claude La Marre directs the urban comedy Go for Broke. Two guys win the New York lottery, then get held up by a robber at a cafe. The woman robbing the place gets caught, taking their winning lottery ticket with her to prison. In order to get the stolen ticket back, the two guys dress in drag Read More

NYPD Blue: Nariz a Nariz

Synopsis: Esai Morales becomes a regular in the role of Brooklyn homicide detective Lt. Tony Rodriguez. Setting up shop at the 15th precinct, Rodriguez imperiously takes over the investigation of the murder of an ex-cop's daughter. But after two of his own detectives screw up, Rodriguez relaxes a bit and Read More

Basquiat

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

Deadly Voyage

Actors: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France. When the ship's captain (Joss Ackland) discovers the stowaways, he is reminded by his aggressively ambitious executive officer (Sean Pertwee Read More

Law & Order: Encore

Synopsis: In this sequel to the fifth-season episode "Coma," Larry Miller reprises the role of sleazy former comedy-club owner Michael Dobson. Having been acquitted of murdering his first wife, Dobson ends up the prime suspect when his second wife is killed while jogging in Central Park. Determined to nail Read More

Denise Calls Up

Actors: Tim Daly, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Caroleen Feeney, Liev Schreiber, Dan Gunther

Synopsis: Thanks to the technological marvels of wireless phones, answering machines, the internet, and e-mail, it is no longer necessary actually to see anyone you know, and seven friends have taken this notion to its logical extreme in this comedy. Linda (Aida Turturro) throws a birthday party and to her Read More

Dead Presidents

Actors: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez

Synopsis: Albert Hughes and his brother Allen Hughes followed their striking debut Menace II Society with this ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Read More

Fresh

Actors: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, Ron Brice

Synopsis: A bright young African-American boy attempts to survive life in the city by acting as an errand boy for a drug dealer in this thoughtful, sharply plotted drama. Known as Fresh, the young man must use his delivery jobs to support himself and his troubled sister, receiving nothing from his distant Read More

Malcolm X

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative Read More

Pastor Jones: Samuel and Delia

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude LaMarre, Roderick L. McCarthy, Jameelah McMillan, Maahra Hill, Jean-Pierre Parent

Synopsis: The religious drama Pastor Jones: Samuel and Delia concerns a pastor who finds himself losing faith as he struggles with earthly temptations. Soon his life takes a turn for the worse, but redemption can be found in the most unexpected places. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More