Leslie Uggams

Poor Pretty Eddie is a surreal psycho-thriller that broke all the rules of B-movie film-making when it unleashed its sordid tale of a black celebrity from the big city stranded in a backwoods redneck nightmare. Liz Wetherly (Leslie Uggams) is a popular singer just looking for a little break from her hectic schedule. But when her car breaks down, she ends up stuck in a remote southern town that‘s been left for dead “ever since they put in the interstate.” Forced to spend the night, she finds herself having to endure “Bertha’s Oasis”, a rundown lodge that serves as the bizzaro fiefdom of faded, overweight burlesque star Bertha (Shelly Winters), her much younger boy-toy and aspiring Elvis wannabe, Eddie (Michael Christian), and a cast of suitably strange townsfolk.

A scandal-hit entrepreneur hires an elderly vendor as his company's figurehead, but she soon takes charge, disrupting all his plans.

Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

An unthinkable tragedy rocks a close community. Those who remain embark on a journey through the darkness, searching for understanding and solace.

Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of mercenary Wade Wilson, who hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in West Africa, a violent presence invades her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.

Wisecracking anti-hero Deadpool joins a motley collection of mutants to save a rebellious teenage mutant from the grip of a powerful enemy

Oprah Winfrey stars in the true story of a woman's search for enlightenment about her mother--whose cancer cells would save millions.