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

Paris Blues
(1961) [M]

Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie...  More