Bahni Turpin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pontiac, Michigan, USA
Birthday: June 04, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Showing Up
Overview: In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-07
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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Overview: Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-17
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Malcolm X
Overview: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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Getting In
Overview: Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-07
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Daughters of the Dust
Overview: In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-24
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Crossroads
Overview: After eight years apart, three childhood friends - Lucy, Kit, and Mimi - rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with Mimi's handsome friend Ben in his convertible. Along the way they not only gather experiences that will change their lives, but they also discover how important it is to hold onto their hearts' desires.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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O.G.
Overview: Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Brokedown Palace
Overview: Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Girls in Prison
Overview: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-19
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The Saint of Fort Washington
Overview: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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