Frances Foster Movies
- 1992
Malcolm X
Malcolm X7.51992HD
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
- 1994
Crooklyn
Crooklyn6.8121994HD
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...
- 1995
Clockers
Clockers6.71995HD
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four...
- 1992
The Distinguished Gentleman
The Distinguished Gentleman6.0351992HD
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his...
- 1987
Five Corners
Five Corners5.81987HD
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who...
- 1977
A Piece of the Action
A Piece of the Action5.51977HD
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to...
- 1986
Trapped In Silence
Trapped In Silence6.81986HD
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
- 1991
Darrow
Darrow5.31991HD
The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
- 1987
Enemy Territory
Enemy Territory5.81987HD
An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
- 1992
Citizen Cohn
Citizen Cohn6.31992HD
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and...
- 1959
Take a Giant Step
Take a Giant Step5.21959HD
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...
- 1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1.51989HD
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...
- 1987
Desperate
Desperate01987HD
In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in...
- 1984
The House of Dies Drear
The House of Dies Drear01984HD
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle...
- 1992
Through an Open Window
Through an Open Window01992HD
A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost...
- 1984
Tales of the Unknown South
Tales of the Unknown South01984HD
Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories...
- 1978
The Last Tenant
The Last Tenant01978HD
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which...
- 1976
The First Breeze of Summer
The First Breeze of Summer01976HD
A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a...
- 1974
Legacy of Blood
Legacy of Blood01974HD
An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.