Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield scored Oscar nominations for their portrayals of a sharecropping family with a son who are divided by a prison stint.

At 110 years old, a Louisiana woman born into slavery recounts her experience from the Civil War through her involvement in the civil rights movement.

A heartwarming tale of a girl whose life is changed by a scruffy, fun-loving pooch named Winn-Dixie.

A brand new restoration of Leo Penn's A Man Called Adam starring Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong and Cicley Tyson. Set in the 1960s, talented jazz musician Adam (Sammy Davis Jr.) appears to have it all, but an inner anger and a tormented past threaten to destroy his career. When he meets jazz legend Willie Ferguson (Louis Armstrong), and falls in love with his granddaughter (Cicley Tyson), a straight-talking civil rights activist, Adam begins to question his lifestyle, and resolves to tame his drinking and wild behaviour. But despite his new-found love, Adam is haunted by the shadows of his past. Can he escape his demons, before they destroy him entirely?

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

After being released on parole, a gangster returns home to 1930s Harlem to show the New York mafia that if he can’t join them, it’s time to kill them.

When gentle, law-abiding Grace confesses to killing her new husband, her skeptical young lawyer sets out to uncover the truth. A film by Tyler Perry.

Hip-hop stars and music legends render a dazzling tale of two friends, and how greed, fame, and murder threaten to break them and the ties that bind.

A couple's seemingly solid marriage crumbles when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her. Heartbroken, she moves in with her sassy grandmother who helps her overcome the trauma.