Ruby Dee

A Simple Wish
5.4

A Simple Wish

Jul. 11, 1997

A Simple Wish

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her “simple wish” – that her father ...
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
7.2

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An ...
Just Cause
6.4

Just Cause

Feb. 17, 1995

Just Cause

Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of ...
Cop and ½
4.1

Cop and ½

Apr. 02, 1993

Cop and ½

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 ...
Jungle Fever
6.6

Jungle Fever

Jun. 07, 1991

Jungle Fever

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial ...
Decoration Day
7.2

Decoration Day

Dec. 02, 1990

Decoration Day

A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets ...
Love at Large
5.7

Love at Large

Mar. 09, 1990

Love at Large

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 ...
Do the Right Thing
8.0

Do the Right Thing

Jun. 14, 1989

Do the Right Thing

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds ...
Cat People
6.2

Cat People

Apr. 02, 1982

Cat People

After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale ...