Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade’s family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and…

Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against…

J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff’s Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.’s fellow officers resent…

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.

In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she…

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an…