A talented college running back fights to regain his health after being stricken with cancer, and grapples with the...
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2012
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This independently produced drama from director Andrew P. Jones travels back to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It tells...
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2010
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R&B icon Patti LaBelle stars in writer/director Charles Randolph-Wright's big screen adaptation of the off-Broadway hit about...
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Lillian Winter
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2010
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2008
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Narrator
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2008
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2007
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Actor and playwright Tyler Perry returns as Madea, a brash but loving African-American grandmother with her own way of doing...
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Victoria
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2006
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In this sequel to the 2003 Disney Channel hit The Cheetah Girls, the girls travel to Spain to compete in a prominent music...
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2006
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Can a high-attitude African-American politician who says what he thinks stand a chance in a presidential campaign? Mays...
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Debra Lassiter
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2003
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Jamie Foxx once again brilliantly demonstrates his acting chops as Stan "Tookie" Williams, the South Central Los Angeles...
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Prof. Barbara Becnel
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2003
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2003
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Based on the popular series of children's books by Deborah Gregory, the made-for-cable The Cheetah Girls is all about four...
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Dorothea Garibaldi
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2003
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A girl with powerful dreams for her future may not have the chance to live them out in this drama based on the novel by...
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2001
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2001
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Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life...
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2001
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A little girl with a newborn baby brother longs to have a child of her own, but wonders if she's ready for motherhood in...
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Narrator
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2000
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A Civil Rights activist comes to the defense of an African-American marine who was convicted of rape, but is widely believed...
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Lori Jackson
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1999
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1998
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Given up for adoption in infancy, 34-year-old Barbara Ann Williams (Gloria Reuben) launches a desperate search for her...
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1998
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Inspired by a true story (the events of which led to the Sipes vs. McGhee trial, in which the United States Supreme Court...
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Minnie McGhee
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1998
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This two-part TV miniseries, adapted from Dorothy West's novel The Wedding, takes a look at mid-century issues of race and...
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1998
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In this Canadian film, overweight piano prodigy Junior Brown (Martin Villafana) searches for a piano because his goofy mother...
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1997
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A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic...
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Roz Batiste
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1997
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In this first episode of a two-part story, Tess (Della Reese) pays a visit to the Greene family, the protagonists of the...
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1997
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Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green...
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Angie
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1997
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Originally an episode of the Touched by an Angel spinoff Promised Land, this is the conclusion of a two-part story begun on...
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1997
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Originally made for and aired on the Lifetime cable network this 1955-set drama centers on a loving, white Southern housewife...
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Sophie
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1996
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Writer-director Martin Lawrence billed this comic drama as his own version of the film Fatal Attraction (1987). Lawrence...
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Brandi Web
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1996
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In this made-for-TV whodunit, funnyman Bill Cosby shifts gears as Guy Hanks, a retired New York Police forensics...
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1994
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Set in a busy inner-city emergency room, this made-for-cable television drama follows the struggles of a world-weary surgeon...
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Dehlia Johnson
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1994
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Comedian Pauly Shore goes to boot camp in this comedy adventure set in Chad. It was filmed on location in the California and...
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1994
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Following up the goofy big-screen comedies Dragnet and Delirious, director Tom Mankiewicz delivered this made-for-cable...
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Carolyn
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1993
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Originally aired on CBS in 1992, Stompin' at the Savoy was produced and directed by Broadway choreographer and actress...
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Esther
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1992
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Mario Van Peebles stars as football play Ricky Bell in this made-for-TV biopic. The film touches upon Bell's gridiron...
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1991
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Josephine Baker
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1990
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1989
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This drama features a progressive medical group whose founding female members encourage the use of unique practices for the...
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1988
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A New York cop takes on drug-smuggling Soviet agents in this action-espionage thriller. The trouble starts when the...
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1988
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1987
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Malcolm "Mace" Douglas (Ed Marinaro) is a vice squad detective who investigates the drug-related murders of strippers in this...
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1987
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This made-for-TV drama was based on the true story of George McKenna (played by Denzel Washington in one of his first leading...
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1986
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Bill Duke directed this fact-based tale of a poor Southern black woman who rose from poverty to become an FBI agent. Retitled...
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1986
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Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various...
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1985
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This routine film should have been called the "rock singer's husband" because it is about the life of a baseball player...
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1985
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A college professor named Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd goes undercover as a Chicago pimp disguised by a bushy wig in this...
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Thelma Cleland
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1983
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Oz Scott directed this made-for-television performance of Ntozake Shange's musical For Colored Girls Who Have Considered...
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1982
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John Henry was the hero of a popular ballad sung back during the times of the Industrial Revolution. Danny Glover stars as...
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