Beah Richards
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1920-07-12
Locus Natus: Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Et ut: Beulah Elizabeth Richardson
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
release : 1967.12.11popularis : 12.516
In the Heat of the Night
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...
release : 1967.08.02popularis : 19.164
Mahogany
An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her...
release : 1975.10.08popularis : 2.023
Footsteps
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the...
release : 1972.10.03popularis : 1.688
One Special Victory
A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He...
release : 1991.12.08popularis : 1.968
Zora is My Name!
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 3.218
Homer and Eddie
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
release : 1989.08.17popularis : 8.808
Beloved
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of...
release : 1998.10.16popularis : 9.489
Inside Out
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
release : 1987.08.21popularis : 2.369
Banjo the Woodpile Cat
Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coup to see if he can...
release : 1979.11.16popularis : 5.568
Outrage
One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.
release : 1973.11.28popularis : 2.228
Big Shots
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a...
release : 1987.10.02popularis : 3.437
Hurry Sundown
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major...
release : 1967.02.09popularis : 3.837
Generation
Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium...
release : 1985.05.24popularis : 3.196
Take a Giant Step
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a...
release : 1959.12.01popularis : 4.552
Gone Are the Days!
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...
release : 1963.08.09popularis : 0.686
Out of Darkness
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.
release : 1994.01.16popularis : 1.778
As Summers Die
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being...
release : 1986.05.18popularis : 10.783
The Great White Hope
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
release : 1970.10.11popularis : 4.454
Acceptable Risks
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...
release : 1986.03.02popularis : 1.437
The Miracle Worker
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard...
release : 1962.05.23popularis : 14.093
A Christmas Without Snow
A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she...
release : 1980.12.09popularis : 2.759
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...
release : 2004.02.25popularis : 2.014
The Biscuit Eater
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all...
release : 1972.03.22popularis : 2.66
Drugstore Cowboy
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...
release : 1989.10.20popularis : 18.831
A Dream for Christmas
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for...
release : 1973.12.24popularis : 0.484
And the Children Shall Lead
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.828
Ring of Passion
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies...
release : 1978.02.04popularis : 1.733
Just an Old Sweet Song
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....
release : 1976.09.25popularis : 2.048
The Mugger
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
release : 1958.11.01popularis : 1.171