Charles Burnett

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

An omnibus of 42 short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.

When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.

A musician spends New Year’s Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she ...

Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade’s ...

A woman who believes a dead composer is in love with her falls in love with a man who constantly fights an imaginary man named Hank.

J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff’s Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as ...

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout ...

Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his ...