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Antebellum is a 2020 American black horror thriller film [3] [4] written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a 21st-century African-American woman who wakes to find herself mysteriously in a Southern slave plantation from which ...
The "unknown woman" receives no name in the book; in the film she is called Lisa Berndle (a quirk of Ophüls is having his female characters names' starting with an L). Fernand, a relative of Lisa's mother and eventual husband, is turned into the completely unrelated "Mr. Kastner", with the family moving to Linz rather than Innsbruck .
The Servant is a 1963 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey. It was written by Harold Pinter , who adapted Robin Maugham 's 1948 novella of the same name. [ 5 ] The film stars Dirk Bogarde , Sarah Miles , Wendy Craig and James Fox .
The film starred Strode as Sergeant Rutledge, a Black first sergeant in a colored regiment of the United States Cavalry, known as "Buffalo Soldiers". At a U.S. Army fort in the early 1880s, he is being tried by a court-martial for the rape and murder of a white girl as well as for the murder of the girl's father, who was the commanding officer ...
Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It stars Deborah Kerr , Sabu , David Farrar , and Flora Robson , and features Esmond Knight , Jean Simmons , and Kathleen Byron .
The servant Thomas pushes the wheelchair of Charles towards Anthony, who falls into his death on the grand staircase while a vengeful ghostly wheelchair overlooks Anthony, now dead. Maria regains justice and is found to be innocent by the court, inheriting the estate and fortune of Charles and the film ends with credits.
Black Girl (French: La noire de... ) is a 1966 French-Senegalese drama film , written and directed by Ousmane Sembène in his directorial debut . [ 1 ] It is based on a short story from Sembène's 1962 collection Voltaique, which was in turn inspired by a real life incident.
Although initially reluctant to trust the new leader, Betty eventually warms to her. When ten girls are allowed to go home for Thanksgiving under the promise of returning by eleven P.M., Frankie and "The Duchess", having lost the power and privilege they enjoyed under the departed Matron Brackett, arrange to have Betty kidnapped so she can not ...