Estelle Evans

Atticus Finch, un avocat dans le sud des États-Unis des années 1930 doit défendre un homme noir accusé de viol. Le récit, raconté à travers les souvenirs et le regard de ses enfants Scout et Jem, est parsemé de détails sur la vie et les mentalités de l'époque ainsi que d'anecdotes de voisinages (dont certaines inspirées des souvenirs d'enfance de l'auteur du roman).

A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.

A documentary made on the set of "The Learning Tree." Narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the cast and crew.

Dave Anderson et Manny Durrell sont deux voleurs sournoises de grande classe qui n'a jamais été pris. Joshua Burke est un détective à la retraite qui a suffisamment de preuves sur la deux d'entre eux pour les mettre derrière les barreaux. Au lieu de cela, il propose de maintenir son silence si les escrocs vont aller tout droit et ne travailler à un centre de jeunesse pour les délinquants. Dans un premier temps, les escrocs sont réticents et ne voulant pas (et sont donc les enfants). Comme le temps passe, ils gagnent la confiance et l'admiration des enfants et ils commencent à apprécier le travail. Tout va bien jusqu'à ce que quelqu'un du passé leur dit qu'ils ont à faire un dernier hold-up ... ou bien ...

After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.

Dans le Kansas des années 1920, un jeune Noir américain se retrouve propulsé dans la vie adulte par une suite d'événements.

HARLEM, USA: in the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s murder, German filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn turned his 16mm camera on the New Lafayette Theatre as its players rehearsed scenes, ran public workshops and conducted exercises in uptown Manhattan. New Lafayette (or NLT) had been founded by actor-director Robert Macbeth the previous year, with the aim of producing theater for black people, by black people, to reflect the experiences and vernacular of the Harlem community. Within the Black Arts Movement, NLT would become a significant institution: it published the journal Black Theatre, and employed a host of talents – including the Black Panthers’ Minister of Culture, Ed Bullins, and the great pianist Junior Mance, both of whom appear in Wildenhahn’s film as resident collaborators.

A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances.

Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.

A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.

Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.

La police de New-york découvre le corps nu d'une prostituée, flottant sur les eaux de l'Hudson River. Meurtre gratuit, crime sexuel ? les enquêteurs n'ont guère le temps de s'interroger : à peine la nouvelle s'est-elle rependue à travers la ville que trois nouveaux assassinats sont signalés. Une jeune et jolie étudiante en arts apporte à la police un concours inattendu. Douée de pouvoirs extra-sensoriels, elle a eu la vision prémonitoire de tous ces meurtres, et en a fixé les macabres détails en une saisissante série de croquis. Un ambitieux reporter de télévision, Paul McCormack, et un de ses plus vieux amis, l'officier de police Larry Weeks, s'attachent à Virna, rivalisant pour obtenir d'elle des détails inédits. Jeu dangereux : tandis que la police assemble une à une les pièces du puzzle, Virna a bientôt le pressentiment de sa propre mort.

A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.

La famille Jeffersons quitte sa maison du Queens pour un emménager dans un bel appartement de Manhattan.

La série présente des enquêtes menées par les inspecteurs du 65e commissariat de police du New York City Police Department avec des intrigues se concentrant beaucoup sur les criminels et les victimes.