Kansas City
(1996) [M]

Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local...  More

Carmen Jones
(1954) [PG]

Otto Preminger's sizzling screen version of Bizet's opera Carmen, updated for an all-black cast, stars an Oscar-nominated Dorothy Dandridge. She stars in the title role as a passionate woman who lures handsome GI Joe (Harry Belafonte) away from his sweetheart (Olga James). Following a brawl with...  More

Bobby
(2006) [M]

Featuring one of the most remarkable casts ever assembled, Bobby is the "exciting, involving and riveting (Rex Reed, New York Observer)" epic written and directed by Emilio Estevez. With an all-star ensemble that includes Laurence Fishburne, William H. Macy and Sharon Stone, along with Heather...  More

Island in the Sun
(1957) [M]

Set on the tropical island of Santa Marta in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict...  More

Odds Against Tomorrow
(1959) [PG]

Odds Against Tomorrow a crackling crime caper with an undercurrent of racial tension combines the desperation of three men--two of whom hate each other--and the culmination of that desperation in the form of a robbery. The film which includes a fantastic jazz score by pianist John Lewis of the...  More