Cicely Tyson Movies

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathy Bates

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oprah Winfrey

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Laurence Fishburne

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sondra Locke

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Sheen

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Ryan

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Fishburne

A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: André 3000

Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyler Perry

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Wagner

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyler Perry

A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jeff Daniels

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Stone

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Cheadle

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Earl Jones

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tyler Perry

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Patsy Kensit

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chad Michael Murray

Tells the story of an African American youth named Jimmy who encounters racial discrimination in his search for employment. Although the boy's father...

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Cast: James Pemberton

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Farrah Fawcett

Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Genre: Music

Cast: Sammy Davis Jr.

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Lane

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Genre: History

Cast: Cicely Tyson

Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Marlo Thomas

In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cicely Tyson

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Jo Finney

Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Grace

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Dennehy

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eriq La Salle

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Field

Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kimberly Elise

A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Harrison

Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Gary Coleman

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donna Mills

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steve Carell

The Irish-willed eighty-year-old Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick and her only friend in life, seventy-year-old Celine Snow disagree on just about everything....

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Cast: Louise Fletcher

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oprah Winfrey

Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grant Show

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angela Bassett

Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Duggan

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Hooks

The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Waters

When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Crystal R. Fox

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Melissa Gilbert

Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted...

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Cast: Rita Gardner

Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.

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Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abbey Lincoln

The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...

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Cast: Cicely Tyson

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Alexander