Debido a una serie de fatales coincidencias, dos jóvenes neoyorkinos, que viajaban al sur del país, son tomados por asesinos. Como no pueden pagar los honorarios de un buen abogado, deciden llamar al primo de uno de ellos, que es un abogado sin experiencia. En estas circunstancias, se prevé que el resultado del juicio puede ser verdaderamente desastroso.
Deep South, 1960, un hombre lucha con la vergüenza de su pasado, mientras navega por su propio alcoholismo y complicadas dinámicas familiares como esposo y padre.
En una pequeña población de Mississippi, el policía Sam Wood (Warren Oates) descubre el cadáver de un industrial. Poco después, detiene en la estación a un hombre negro que, tras ser interrogado por el jefe de la policía local, Billl Gillespie (Rod Steiger), resulta ser un inspector de la policía de Filadelfia llamado Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier). Ambos policías deciden colaborar para investigar el asesinato.
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.
La historia de amor prohibido y drama familiar de Tyler Perry revela 40 años de secretos y mentiras con una banda sonora de blues de cantina del Sur profundo de EE. UU.
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.
Un joven granjero aficionado a las carreras de coches ve cómo su padre es encarcelado por transportar whisky ilegal. Entonces es cuando decide explotar su gran afición para recaudar dinero y así utilizarlo en la defensa de su padre.
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.