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Sounder
1972 • Drama
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
1974 • Drama • TV Movie
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her s…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Bustin' Loose
1981 • Drama • Comedy
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 • Drama • Comedy • Family
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
2013 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Rosa Parks Story
2002 • Drama • History • TV Movie
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 • Drama • Comedy
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experience…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Hoodlum
1997 • Drama • Crime
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'B…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
A Fall from Grace
2020 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Blue Bird
1976 • Drama • Adventure • Family
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropo…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Always Outnumbered
1998 • Drama • TV Movie
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
2005 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Idlewild
2006 • Music • Drama • Crime
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Madea's Family Reunion
2006 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa i…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1968 • Drama
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile,…
Why matched: genres Drama
Alex Cross
2012 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over accepti…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999 • Drama • Action & Adventure
Without warning, an earthquake rips through the "City That Never Sleeps," turning it into a vulnerable state of chaos: skyscrapers topple, subways are buried in the rubble, coun…
Why matched: genres Drama, Action & Adventure
Why Did I Get Married Too?
2010 • Romance • Comedy
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
The Help
2011 • Drama
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Comedians
1967 • Drama
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Why matched: genres Drama