A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an upwardly mobile lawyer.
Suzanne Somers appears in her first TV starring role in this romantic comedy about an aspiring singer torn between making the most of her one chance at fame in Las Vegas or giving her heart to a love-struck mountain man.
A pilot movie dealing with the day-to-day workings of God herself, here threatening to destroy Las Vegas if six righteous people cannot be found there in seven days, and it's all up to an eager-to-please young angel, a frustrated clerk-typist in the heavenly music department, to try to hold off the devastation while disguised as a mortal.
Dans le ghetto afro-américain de Watts, à Los Angeles, un ouvrier fier et mélancolique, épuisé par son emploi dans un abattoir de moutons et par ses responsabilités de père de famille, résiste à la tentation de l'argent facile, sous le regard de sa femme qui n'arrive plus à communiquer avec lui.
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Un portrait du réalisateur noir indépendant Charles Burnett, dont les films offrent une grille de lecture intellectuelle et culturelle de l'histoire afro-américaine.
An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A day-in-the-life South Central L.A. tale about a rag-tag group of unemployed black male pals.
An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Basé sur l'histoire vraie de la relation entre le joueur de football de Penn State John Cappelletti, Jr. et son jeune frère Joey, qui est atteint de leucémie. Le lien entre John et Joey est très fort. Joey traîne avec John dans le vestiaire de Penn State et l'inspire à devenir le meilleur joueur de football universitaire du pays. Leur lien ne connaît aucune limite et va au-delà des touchdowns et des récompenses.
Filmmaker Thomas Penick explores race, gender and violence in this provocative, disturbing drama set on a hot, summer day in 1969. When a woman accepts a ride from two men at the corner of Western and Adams, the encounter quickly turns ugly, venturing into painful, surreal territory.
An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority. A detective, who had been keeping tabs on him since he got out of prison, suspects that he is up to something and tries to catch him at it.
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.