Movies: Ruby Dee

  • 2007
    American Gangster

    American Gangster (2007)

    American Gangster

    7.52007HD

    Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...

    American Gangster
  • 1989
    Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Do the Right Thing

    7.81989HD

    Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborh...

    Do the Right Thing
  • 2012
    A Thousand Words

    A Thousand Words (2012)

    A Thousand Words

    6.02012HD

    Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tre...

    A Thousand Words
  • 1982
    Cat People

    Cat People (1982)

    Cat People

    6.01982HD

    After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that...

    Cat People
  • 1993
    Cop & ½

    Cop & ½ (1993)

    Cop & ½

    4.41993HD

    When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad...

    Cop & ½
  • 1995
    Just Cause

    Just Cause (1995)

    Just Cause

    6.21995HD

    A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child....

    Just Cause
  • 1999
    Baby Geniuses

    Baby Geniuses (1999)

    Baby Geniuses

    4.11999HD

    BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most brilliant scientists, are tirelessly working in complete secrecy to crack the indecipherable code to 'bab...

    Baby Geniuses
  • 1991
    Jungle Fever

    Jungle Fever (1991)

    Jungle Fever

    6.31991HD

    A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse....

    Jungle Fever
  • 2004
    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    42004HD

    Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The...

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
  • 1950
    The Jackie Robinson Story

    The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

    The Jackie Robinson Story

    6.41950HD

    Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues....

    The Jackie Robinson Story
  • 1990
    Love at Large

    Love at Large (1990)

    Love at Large

    4.91990HD

    Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up....

    Love at Large
  • 1997
    A Simple Wish

    A Simple Wish (1997)

    A Simple Wish

    5.41997HD

    Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and...

    A Simple Wish
  • 2007
    All About Us

    All About Us (2007)

    All About Us

    4.42007HD

    Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they soon discover what matters to them most....

    All About Us
  • 1950
    No Way Out

    No Way Out (1950)

    No Way Out

    6.91950HD

    Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder....

    No Way Out
  • 1985
    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    6.41985HD

    This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often...

    Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • 2005
    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    5.82005HD

    A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston....

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • 2011
    Video Girl

    Video Girl (2011)

    Video Girl

    6.32011HD

    Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a star in the Hip-Hop video world. But she soon learns the hard way that life in front of the camera is not as glamorous as it seems....

    Video Girl
  • 1957
    Edge of the City

    Edge of the City (1957)

    Edge of the City

    7.11957HD

    An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager....

    Edge of the City
  • 1961
    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

    A Raisin in the Sun

    7.71961HD

    Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall....

    A Raisin in the Sun
  • 2007
    Steam

    Steam (2007)

    Steam

    3.12007HD

    Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations....

    Steam