Tonea Stewart
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
Birthday: February 03, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Time to Kill
Overview: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-24
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American Hero
Overview: Melvin, a reluctant hero who is far from super, has been suppressing his telekinetic powers for years with booze, drugs, and women. In the process, he has failed at practically everything, most of all as a parent to his son. After a brush with death, Melvin decides to use his powers for good and clean up the streets of New Orleans with the help of his best friend/definitely-not-a-sidekick, Lucille. For a man who can do the impossible, it might be a fight even he can’t win.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Overview: 1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-02
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Have Dreams, Will Travel
Overview: West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-21
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The Rosa Parks Story
Overview: A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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Hood Rat
Overview: Think of it as Willard in the hood, the debut feature from director Leslie Small finds a Isaiah Washington playing a kindly man who turns maniacal with revenge and enlists the help of some man-eating rodents. Living in a rat-infested apartment building, Max is pushed to the edge when his handicapped brother is killed due to the conditions of the inner-city slum. With the rats as his willing soldiers, Max sets out to avenge the senseless death. Hood Rat also stars rapper-turned-actor Ice-T.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-01
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One Christmas
Overview: Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-19
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Alabama Love Story
Overview: A broken down ex-rodeo cowboy, Roper, is down on his luck. He has three weeks to pay three months rent when he reads about the couple of the year in the newspaper, and decides to kidnap the wife, Goodwina for ransom. Goodie is the sweetest country girl ever, and she married a country boy, only to have him change into a city politician who is sleeping with his assistant. He mocks her for her country ways. After Roper kidnaps Goodie, They initially hate each other (understandably so), but when Roper calls in for a ransom, her husband tells him that he doesn't want her back.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Confession of a Florist
Overview: She loves him. She loves him not.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Black Adam
Overview: Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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The Hollars
Overview: Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
Overview: The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors in the 1950s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-17
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Overview: Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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Gramps
Overview: After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, until the two set off on a hunting trip, where Jack starts showing a rather violent streak to his nature.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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Same Kind of Different as Me
Overview: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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Mississippi Burning
Overview: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-08
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Courtship
Overview: In 1915, Elizabeth has fallen in love with Horace Robedaux, a young man her father condemns as a "wild boy." No matter how strict and protective, her parents cannot deter their daughter's growing independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Leave of Absence
Overview: A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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Girls Trip
Overview: Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-21
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The Sister-in-Law
Overview: A man finally meets his daughter-in-law for the first time when his son tragically dies. He and the rest of the family like her, but she has a deadly secret.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-12
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Come Sunday
Overview: Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-21
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The Wronged Man
Overview: Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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The Golden Voices
Overview: "Golden Voices Competition" is to be held this year at Terrell Christian College (TCC), but there's one problem TCC does not have a choir. Georgia Mae Jackson (Irma P. Hall) who is the head of the music department has been challenged by the Assistant Dean Vickie Wilson (Tonea Stewart), to put a choir together in one month or lose her job. Georgia's back goes out so she tricks her granddaughter, Sidney Nicole Taylor (Nikki Dixon) into taking over the choir for her. Sidney turns the college upside down when she hires a fallen, bad boy, R&B singer, Jax Rebel (Mario Mims), to help her with the choir. Dean Wilson finds out about Jax's sorted past and threatens to fire Georgia if they don't win the competition. Will, Sidney and Jax be able to save Georgia's job?
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-13
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Constellation
Overview: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Overview: The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-31
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Body Snatchers
Overview: When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-09
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Just Mercy
Overview: The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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First Christmas
Overview: Given up for adoption and placed in foster care at a young age, writer Halle Downing receives the blessing of a lifetime when she is invited to spend Christmas in New Orleans with the biological family she never knew she had.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-22
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Doretha's Blues
Overview: Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-16
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Mistress of Paradise
Overview: In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-04
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Minstrel Man
Overview: Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-02
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My Stepson, My Lover
Overview: A kind nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-25
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