Secret Rites

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

The true story of Pat Conroy, a handsome, idealistic Caucasian who is an elementary-school instructor for a group of poor Black children in an isolated school.

Idealistic, yet unemployed, Black American Engineering graduate Mark Thackeray takes on a temporary position teaching a group of rambunctious White high school students from London's East End slum nei

A bittersweet, idyllic story about a year in the life of 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor Black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and immorality.

A multi-generational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreate

A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.

In north Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in a grueling and inhumane dance marathon.

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.