Beah Richards Movies

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sidney Poitier

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diana Ross

A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Crenna

A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Larroquette

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jim Belushi

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oprah Winfrey

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elliott Gould

Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coup to see if he can...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Scatman Crothers

One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robert Culp

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ricky Busker

Post-WWII, a corporation seeks Georgia farmland, but two owners—a white veteran and a black man—refuse to sell, forming an alliance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Caine

Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Beymer

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Nash

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ossie Davis

Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Diana Ross

Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Scott Glenn

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Earl Jones

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Dennehy

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Bancroft

A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Learned

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beah Richards

Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Earl Holliman

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Dillon

A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hari Rhodes

Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danny Glover

Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bernie Casey

Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Hooks

A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kent Smith