
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Read More »
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The Exile (1931) Leonard Harper, Oscar Micheaux, Eunice Brooks, Stanley Morrell, Celeste Cole

A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. Read More »
Nazi Agent (1942) Jules Dassin, Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher

A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official. Read More »
The Feminine Touch (1941) W.S. Van Dyke, Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis

John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. Read More »
Joy of Living (1938) Tay Garnett, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alice Brady

Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. Read More »
Bright Road (1953) Gerald Mayer, Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte

A young teacher helps a troubled student who’s fascinated by a caterpillar’s metamorphosis. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
A Warm December (1973) Sidney Poitier, Ester Anderson, Yvette Curtis

Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter arrive for a month-long visit to London Read More »
Dancing Mothers (1926) Herbert Brenon

Ethel Westcourt discovers that her husband is having an affair with another woman and that her daughter Read More »
Armed Response (1986) Fred Olen Ray, David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Mako

One of Tanaka’s underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering Read More »