Margaret Avery
13 titles
Filmography
13 results

Is That Black Enough for You?!?
(2022)Culture critic and historian Elvis Mitchell traces the evolution — and revolution — of Black cinema from its origins to the impactful films of the 1970s.

Block Party
(2022)A Harvard grad returns to her hometown when her grandmother shows early signs of dementia to help put on an annual Juneteenth block party.

The Return of Superfly
(1990)In this action-packed sequel, a retired drug dealer living in Paris discovers his old partner has been killed and returns to NY to avenge his murder.

The Color Purple
(1985)Celie, a Southern Black woman, gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love--despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.

Scott Joplin
(1977)
Which Way Is Up?
(1977)A California fruit picker becomes a labour hero, then a womanising corporate flunky and gets transformed by greed.

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
(2008)Martin Lawrence discovers that going home is no vacation in this hysterical comedy also starring Mo’Nique, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer.

The Sky Is Gray
(1980)A nagging toothache sends the young son of a sharecropping family on an eye-opening odyssey through the privilege of white 1940’s Louisiana.

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
(1983)The story of the NAACP’s first field secretary, whose battle for equality tragically ended with his assassination at the hand of a white supremacist.

Hell Up In Harlem
(1973)A gangster becomes the most wanted man in New York City after taking on a corrupt district attorney and the Harlem mafia in this explosive thriller.
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
(1979)
Proud Mary
(2018)Mary, a steely hit woman working for a local Boston Mob family, finds a protective instinct for a little boy while out for a kill.

The Set Up
(1995)A formerly incarcerated engineer is blackmailed by an inmate to provide the blueprints to a bank security system he plans to rob.