Vondie Curtis-Hall
1) Harriet
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
4) Eve's bayou
Language
English
Description
Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. Her younger daughter, Eve, witnesses one of her father's infidelities. Struggling to make sense of what she has seen, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely, who dismisses her in fear of the truth, and then to her Aunt Mozelle, a known psychic and rumored black widow. Unable to find the understanding...
5) 18 1/2
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...
7) Passion fish
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A handicapped ex-soap opera star and her nurse explore the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family in the Louisiana bayou.
8) Glitter
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Billie is a talented young singer struggling to make it big in New York City. With plenty of will and determination, a voice like an angel, and the help of a handsome club DJ, Billie will quickly learn that the roller coaster ride to success is as treacherous as it can be glamorous.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In August of 1987, new parents Joy White and Carl Tyson took their 19-day-old daughter Carlina to Harlem Hospital in New York with a high fever. Ann Pettway, who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a child of her own, posed as a hospital nurse and walked out of the hospital with Carlina hidden from view. While Joy and Carl desperately searched for their daughter over the years, Pettway was raising Carlina in Bridgeport, Connecticut,...
10) Broken arrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads.
Language
English
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Forsooth, this is a pretty play! In fair, tropical Verona Beach in the present day, Romeo + Juliet blithely weds 400-year-old dialog to MTV style visuals. Swords have become guns, and the Montagues and Capulets have become Mafia-style family-based gangs, while their sons run their own rich-kid gangs whose rumbles bring out armies of cops. Whilst these two households are constantly fighting, Romeo and Juliet meet up and fall in love. Unfortunately,...
14) Eve's Bayou
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Language
English
Description
In 1960s Louisiana a charming physician seems to have it all, but risks everything by indulging in his weakness for attractive women. Exposed by his youngest daughter, can he mend his broken family before it's too late?
16) Freedom Song
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Language
English
Description
Danny Glover and writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) reveal the impact of the 1960s civil rights movement on a small Southern town in the compelling drama Freedom Song.In the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi, the arrival of a civil rights group leader inspires a young African-American teenager, Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon), to join the crusade to desegregate his hometown. Leading sit-ins and helping black people register...
17) Honeydripper
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When the train arrives, Guitar Sam is no where to be found....
19) Waist deep
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
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Series
Hollywood on Set volume 2
Language
English
Description
John Cena, Rebecca Hall, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and other brilliant actors and filmmakers, take us into their world behind the scenes, and on set, of the films Vacation Friends (2021), The Night House (2020), and Kate (2021).