Movies: Juanita Moore

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has ...

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady....

Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own....

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things...

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....

A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage....

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison....

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane....

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her lo...

"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feeli...

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession ...

The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants....

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks....

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life....

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites....

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming into contact with several children, Buddy decides that he is ready to be a father. Buddy decides to hi...

A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black mother since birth—marries a pop singer. Everybody conspires to protect her from finding out about herself. It's not clear exactly why they do that....

Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and renew relationships with his two grown children....

A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband....

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railro...