Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl’s fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. | Country: United States | Language: English
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A Story of the Ku Klux Klan. Directed by the first African American full feature-length director, Oscar Micheaux. | Country: United States | Language: English
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Posted on July 6, 2024
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she’ll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that. A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother—a lawyer—don’t like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage. | Country: United States | Language: English
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Micheaux’s earliest surviving feature, and the earliest surviving feature of any African American director. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children. | Country: United States | Language: English
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An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local crime boss. | Country: United States | Language: English
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A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt. | Country: United States | Language: English
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2024 Sundance Audience Award Winner. In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. This feature directorial debut from a recent Academy Award-nominee won both the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at Sundance. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin
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Be one of the first to see the film! Join us Wednesday, July 17 for a preview presentation. | World Premiere, 2023 Venice Film Festival. Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family. | Country: France | Language: French
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Chase. Ride. Survive. As storm season intensifies, never before seen phenomena are unleashed, and two teams of storm chasers find themselves caught in the middle of a deadly storm. Minari (2020) filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung helms an exciting follow-up to the iconic 1996 disaster thriller. | Country: United States | Language: English
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Discover what might have been. A widower embarks on a journey across the world to find his first love before time runs out. Based on the best-selling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Kormákur’s epic romance celebrated its International Premiere at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival. | Country: Iceland | Language: English, Japanese, Icelandic
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