Esther Rolle Movies

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morgan Freeman

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winona Ryder

After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tamara Dobson

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common?...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robert De Niro

Barney owns the last working farm in Manhattan. For various reasons, city officials have decided to close it down. A special event is planned to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jack Klugman

When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Dixon

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfre Woodard

A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Esther Rolle

When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hume Cronyn

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Esther Rolle

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Benjamin

Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kristy McNichol

John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hume Cronyn

Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jenny Robertson

Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denzel Washington

Real stories of five women of the Old West....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cloris Leachman

P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Molly Ringwald

They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ving Rhames

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sandy Dennis

As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two mischief-making devil-bats take human form in order to break...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Esther Rolle

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Starletta DuPois

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruby Dee

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a 1982 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by William Woodman and starring Alex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alex Hyde-White

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

Three college seniors who are thinking about nothing but graduation and going out with a bang from college, harshly discover that a culmination of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wood Harris