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Monster from Green Hell
1957 • Science Fiction • Horror
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. T…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
The Great White Hope
1970 • Drama
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
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
Man Friday
1975 • Adventure • Comedy
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shack…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Sitting Bull
1954 • Western
Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a frie…
Why matched: genres Western
The Learning Tree
1969 • Drama
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden man…
Why matched: genres Drama
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 • Drama • Romance
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, th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979 • Comedy • Western
Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be k…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Western
Friendly Persuasion
1956 • Drama • War
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Run Silent, Run Deep
1958 • Drama • War
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination f…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Skin Game
1971 • Comedy • Western • Action
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Western
Roustabout
1964 • Music • Romance
After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.
Why matched: genres Music, Romance
Imitation of Life
1959 • Drama • Romance
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954 • Drama • Crime
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
1976 • Comedy
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who d…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Chase
1966 • Drama • Crime
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Affair in Trinidad
1952 • Thriller • Mystery • Romance
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950 • Drama • Romance • Crime
Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blos…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Good Neighbor Sam
1964 • Comedy
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion r…
Why matched: genres Comedy
His Kind of Woman
1951 • Thriller • Crime • Comedy
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the m…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime