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The Ten Commandments. Cecil B. DeMille. An American man loves a Chinese woman. 1923. Piccadilly. Ewald André Dupont. A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen of a London nightclub, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder. 1929.
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye.The first feature film directed by a black lesbian, [3] [4] it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical "mammy" roles relegated ...
Box office. $1.9 million or $7 million [2] Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American black comedy film [a] by John Waters. [3] It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). [3] The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of ...
Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success.
Budget. $800,000. Box office. $6,750,000 (rentals)[1] A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in ...
In the 1970s, there was a kids' show called "Big Blue Marble" that LUCIE, Fla. - After nearly four decades of airmailed, handwritten letters, two pen pals living half a world away from each other ...
Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her ...