Frances Foster
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 11, 1924
Deathday: June 17, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Last Tenant
Overview: Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-25
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Trapped In Silence
Overview: A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-11
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A Piece of the Action
Overview: How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-07
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Through an Open Window
Overview: A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost her mind.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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Enemy Territory
Overview: An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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Five Corners
Overview: A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Take a Giant Step
Overview: This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Legacy of Blood
Overview: An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-12
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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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Desperate
Overview: In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-19
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The Distinguished Gentleman
Overview: A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise- Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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The House of Dies Drear
Overview: A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Clockers
Overview: Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Overview: James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-14
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Tales of the Unknown South
Overview: Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.
Genres: Drama Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-07
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Crooklyn
Overview: From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Citizen Cohn
Overview: As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-22
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The First Breeze of Summer
Overview: A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a young woman and a hard-working father's current conflict with his two unhappy sons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-28
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Darrow
Overview: The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-08
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