Posts Tagged ‘race-relations’

Color Purple, The (1985)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, Danny | Goldberg, Whoopi | Avery, Margaret | Winfrey, Oprah | Pugh, Willard E. | Busia, Akosua | Jackson, Desreta | Caesar, Adolph | Chong, Rae Dawn | Ivey, Dana | Jackson, Leonard | Guillory, Bennet | Patton Jr., John | Anderson, Carl | Beaubian, Susan
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900’s. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life…

Cry Freedom (1987)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Simon, Josette | Siyolwe, Wabei | Matshikiza, John | Waterman, Juanita | Sithole, Evelyn | Sithole, Xoliswa | Coine, James | Kline, Kevin | McNally, Kevin | Ndinda, Albert | Whaley, Andrew | Borkum, Shelley | Washington, Denzel | Wilton, Penelope | Hardie, Kate
Directors: Attenborough, Richard
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Poitier, Sidney | Hepburn, Katharine | Houghton, Katharine | Kellaway, Cecil | Richards, Beah | Glenn, Roy | Sanford, Isabel | Christine, Virginia | Hay, Alexandra | Randolph, Barbara | Martin, D'Urville | Heaton, Tom | Gaynor, Grace | Martin, Skip
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Defiant Ones, The (1958)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Curtis, Tony | Poitier, Sidney | Bikel, Theodore | McGraw, Charles | Chaney Jr., Lon | Donovan, King | Akins, Claude | Dobkin, Lawrence | Bissell, Whit | Switzer, Carl 'Alfalfa' | Coughlin, Kevin | Williams, Cara | Smith, Harold Jacob | Young, Nedrick
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.

Whiteboyz (1999)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Hoch, Danny | Mihok, Dash | Webber, Mark | Perabo, Piper | Mueller, Terence | Barnett, Lyndsey | Dr. Dre | Joe, Fat | Quiroga, Eric Rivas | Byrd, Eugene | Komenich, Rich | Mayberry, William N. | Todd, Lisa Jane | Armour, Annabel | Penrod, Shannon
Directors: Levin, Marc
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In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He’s also a wannabe pusher, selling flour as cocaine. And while he talks about “keeping it real,” he hardly notices real life around him: his father’s been laid off, his mother uses Food Stamps, his girlfriend is pregnant, James may be psychotic, one of his friends (one of the town’s few Black kids) is preparing for college, and, on a trip to Chicago to try to buy drugs, the cops shoot real bullets. What will it take for Flip to get real?

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Luke, Derek | Ealy, Michael | Alonso, Laz | Miller, Omar Benson | Favino, Pierfrancesco | Cervi, Valentina | Sciabordi, Matteo | Turturro, John | Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Leguizamo, John | Washington, Kerry | Sweeney, D.B. | Burke, Robert John | Hardwick, Omari | Antonutti, Omero
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Megna, John | Overton, Frank | Murphy, Rosemary | White, Ruth | Peters, Brock | Evans, Estelle | Fix, Paul | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Anderson, James | Ghostley, Alice | Duvall, Robert | Windom, William | Denton, Crahan | Hale, Richard
Directors: Mulligan, Robert
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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.

Ladykillers, The (2004)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Hall, Irma P. | Wayans, Marlon | Simmons, J.K. | Ma, Tzi | Hurst, Ryan | Delano, Diane | Wallace, George | McConnell, John | Weaver, Jason | Root, Stephen | Odums, Lyne | Jordan, Walter K. | Bell, George Anthony | Grunberg, Greg
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman’s house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.

Undercover Brother (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Griffin, Eddie | Kattan, Chris | Richards, Denise | Ellis, Aunjanue | Chappelle, Dave | McBride, Chi | Harris, Neil Patrick | Williams, Gary Anthony | Williams, Billy Dee | Noseworthy, Jack | Trumbull, Robert | Hall, J.D. | Taylor, William B. | MacDonald, Shauna | Pardo, Ron
Directors: Lee, Malcolm D.
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Anton Jackson is an African-American man who seems harmless enough on the surface, but is a secret agent in the all-black Brotherhood, an entity that levels the playing field against the all-white establishment. Partnered with the sassy, stunning Sistah Girl, our hero must first undergo the ultimate attitude adjustment and trade in his ‘fro and platforms for tennis sweaters and penny loafers. Once the transformation is complete, he’s ready to take on the evil perpetrators of Operation Whitewash—Mr Feather, Penelope Snow aka White She Devil, and, ultimately, The Man.

Amistad (1997)

Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Hawthorne, Nigel | Hopkins, Anthony | Hounsou, Djimon | McConaughey, Matthew | Paymer, David | Postlethwaite, Pete | Skarsgård, Stellan | Adoti, Razaaq | Fofanah, Abu Bakaar | Paquin, Anna | Milian, Tomas | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Ashong, Derrick N. | Silva, Geno
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.