Ella Joyce
Biography: Ella Joyce (born Cherron Hoye; June 12, 1954) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Eleanor Emerson on the FOX sitcom Roc, Sarah in Tyler Perry's Temptation, Earlene in Our Family Wedding, Betty Webb in Selma, Lord, Selma, Detective Waller in Set It Off, and McCabe in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. She also had a recurring role as Jasmine on the sitcom My Wife & Kids. She has received numerous awards, nominations, and accolades for her performances in the theater, including the New York AUDELCO and the NAACP Image Nomination (for theater and television). She is also a recipient of the Spirit Of Detroit Award from the Mayor's Office in 1998. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Birthday: June 12, 1954
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Bubba Ho-tep
2002-06-09
Bubba Ho-tep
Overview: Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-09
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Lost Signal
2006-12-01
Lost Signal
Overview: New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting with Crystal Meth. Unbeknown to them, town bad boy Randy Martin slips LSD in their drinks, setting into motion a night of life altering events which will leave one dead and the other forever scarred. The young couple leave the party and quickly begin to realize that they are not alone, or so they think. After a car accident the two run into the woods to escape their stalker, with no protection from the elements. Attempts to call for help are futile when they realize that their cell phone signal is lost. Alone in the woods with the delusions of being chased the couple slowly begin to turn on each other.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Stranger Inside
2001-06-23
Stranger Inside
Overview: After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned. Before long, Treasure encounters Brownie, a lifer and gang leader. Brownie reveals that she is Treasure's mother, and takes the girl under her wing, protecting her from the dangers of hardcore prison life. But some women in Brownie's gang resent Treasure's presence, leading to violent conflict.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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A Simple Promise
2008-05-27
A Simple Promise
Overview: A struggling young artist meets a talented, and undiscovered songstress. Desperately seeking success, they both must face hard truths and contend with sacrifice on their individual paths to fame and along the way they find a love that teaches them what success is really all about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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California Solo
2012-11-30
California Solo
Overview: Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
2013-03-29
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Overview: Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-29
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Clockin' Green
2000-01-01
Clockin' Green
Overview: Two women embark on a bank heist. Then one double-crosses the other. Revenge-minded shenanigans ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Hopelessly in June
2011-06-06
Hopelessly in June
Overview: A financial analyst from a staunchly religious family falls in love with June, a Los Angeles businesswoman whose parents are extremely liberal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Selma, Lord, Selma
1999-01-17
Selma, Lord, Selma
Overview: In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-17
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The Old Settler
2001-04-25
The Old Settler
Overview: The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but unworldly young man named Husband travels up from the South to board with the sisters while he searches for his beloved Lou Bessie, who left their small town a few years back to find a new life. Husband would like to bring Lou Bessie back home, but she's enamored with the excitement of the city, and her plans are more complicated. In time, Elizabeth and Husband begin a courtship that may or may not overcome their considerable age difference, while Quilly reacts disapprovingly.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-25
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Holiday Hideaway
2022-11-24
Holiday Hideaway
Overview: Carly Stewart is the queen of holiday celebrations, but her mistletoe misstep sends her running to a Holiday Hideaway that teaches her the importance of family, forgiveness, and fighting for love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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Catfish Christmas
2022-12-01
Catfish Christmas
Overview: When a young woman returns home for the holidays, her meddling sister sets her up with a handsome football player online, but things might not be as they appear.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-01
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Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
2006-11-07
Who Made the Potatoe Salad?
Overview: An urban romantic comedy about a young San Diego policeman who travels to Los Angeles with his fiance to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-07
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Set It Off
1996-11-06
Set It Off
Overview: Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-06
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Nina
2016-04-22
Nina
Overview: The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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Frozen Hot
1999-11-02
Frozen Hot
Overview: A blacksploitation parody said to inspire "helpless, baffled laughter".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-02
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City Teacher
2012-01-16
City Teacher
Overview: A Jewish parole officer, Jeff Solomon White, struggles in his new role as a reading teacher for illiterate teens at a New York high school. Hard Lesson film Raised by African American parents, White sees the situation differently and is motivated to fight for his students, who face an almost certain life of crime and prison
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-16
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Her Married Lover
1999-10-07
Her Married Lover
Overview: Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage crisis, before embarking on a rapturous affair. When Richard’s wife is killed in a suspicious accident, the lovers are accused of murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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Our Family Wedding
2010-03-12
Our Family Wedding
Overview: The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Resolution Song
2018-02-06
Resolution Song
Overview: A young man's family torn apart by tragedy reaches out to begin rebuilding trust and seek healing by through the only thing that speaks through pain; the healing power of music.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-06
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What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away
2002-05-31
What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away
Overview: A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school girls: aspiring singer Temple (Keshia Knight-Pulliam) and her lifelong friends Alex (Angell Conwell) and Breena (Monica McSwain). Attending a weekend college-scholarship retreat, the three heroines endeavor to gain financial support for their chosen academic fields. Along the way, Temple squares off against longtime rival Doreen (Alexis Fields), Alex is distracted by a handsome frat boy, and Breena tries to prove that she's a lot more mature than her hip-hop image.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Hollywont
2016-07-01
Hollywont
Overview: Hollywont is an urban Entourage gone crazy! The film follows Davon, an aspiring African American screenwriter trying to make a name for himself in Hollywood. Sick and tired of Hollywood's portrayal of unrealistic urban films, Davon turns to a pimp named Tony to manage his career and help guide him in the right direction which may not be the best idea. Tony takes Davon on an outrageous adventure and Davon soon learns why Hollywood can sometimes mean Hollywont!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
1992-02-21
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Overview: A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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Heavenly Deposit
2019-05-28
Heavenly Deposit
Overview: A faithless man finds himself carrying the weight of the world until a divine experience changes his life and he cannot deny the power of God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-28
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Lucky Girl
2015-12-12
Lucky Girl
Overview: On the day of her wedding, as Selena Jackson comes to terms with the long-lost love she's never quite gotten over, many of her guests, including her best friends and her own mother, also struggle with past loves, past regrets and past mistakes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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Preacher's Kid
2010-01-29
Preacher's Kid
Overview: Longing to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-29
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Second Chance Christmas
2014-12-06
Second Chance Christmas
Overview: After moving into a new house with his mom and soon to be father, Lawrence goes through some things. Six months after his mom and new "dad" marry. His mother dies. It isn't easy on Maise's Husband. He soon realizes that he could not deal with Lawrence and goes to a foster home to see if he can put him there. Lawrence has to stay for a few more days before he can leave. Over those days the husband realizes that Lawrence is a great kid.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-06
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Forbidden Fruits
2006-07-25
Forbidden Fruits
Overview: Cultural differences and racial boundaries collide in this powerful story of love between an Arabic Muslim man and an African-American Christian girl who strive to defy the odds. Facing disapproval from within their families and without, Shawn and Crystal must resolutely endure the hatred and bigotry that surrounds their romance in this Detroit-based drama of modern-day prejudice among minority groups.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-25
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Never and Again
2021-02-11
Never and Again
Overview: Kevin and Jasmine who, as two teenagers with equal passion for each other's dreams - his love for football and hers for music - fall head over heels in love with each other but tragedy and one horrible lapse in judgment tears them apart. Many years later, Kevin (Long) and Jasmine (Boutte), have to trust one another after their paths cross again. Is their first love strong enough for them to save each other now?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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Uncle P
2007-06-26
Uncle P
Overview: Rapper/multi-millionaire P. Miller becomes the guardian of his sister's three children - all of whom need a father figure in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-26
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