Biography: Bill Duke |

Although many would likely recognize Bill Duke from his roles in such high-profile releases as Predator, Menace II Society, and Red Dragon, perhaps only a few connect the face in front of the camera with the name of the man who also directed such... more
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Tags: Drama Religious Drama Marriage Drama 
Length: 99min
Director Bill Duke steps behind the camera for this adaptation of the T.D. Jakes novel concerning a newly married couple that finds their union threatened by pressures involving faith, family, and finances. As the couple exchanges their vows, the...

Cast: D.B. Sweeney   
Tags: Dance Film Urban Drama Drama 
Length: 93min
The follow-up to his feature debut, director Alfred De Villa's Yellow is drama starring Roselyn Sanchez as Amaryllis, an aspiring dancer trying to make it in New York City. After her father unexpectedly commits suicide, Amaryllis leaves her native...

Cast: Louis Gossett, Jr.   
Tags: Message Movie Drama 
Length: 98min
A woman accused could be either a killer or a victim in this psychological drama from director Bill Duke. Valerie Maas (Aunjanue Ellis) is a God-fearing housewife and artist who one day finds herself in a situation she never imaged possible -- being...

Cast: LeVar Burton Spike Lee   
Tags: Drama Family Drama Urban Drama 
Length: 133min
Miracle's Boys tells the tale of African-American brothers who must survive many daily stresses by trusting, relying on, and loving each other. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

American Experience: Partners of the Heart (2003)
Cast: Morgan Freeman   
Tags: Medicine Science & Technology Social History History Biography 
Length: 60min
This 60-minute entry in the PBS American Experience anthology chronicles the unorthodox medical partnership between Alfred Blalock, chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins, and Vivien Thomas, a black man with little more than a high school education. When...

Cast: Henry Thomas   
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 95min
An alienated young man begins to question his own sanity in the wake of a horrible crime in the psychological thriller Fever. Nick Parker (Henry Thomas) is an aspiring artist who spends his evenings working on paintings and teaches art at the local...

Cast: Joe Flaherty Bill Duke Dennis Dugan Eric Roberts   
Tags: Odd Couple Film Comedy Action Crime Comedy Action Comedy 
Length: 88min
Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out...

Cast: Ossie Davis Forest Whitaker   
Tags: Drama Social Problem Film 
Length: 95min
Inspired by a true story, this made-for-cable drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. To the African-American citizens of Bogalusa, LA, however, it is "business as usual"; they are still treated like third-class citizens,...

Cast: Michael Apted Cicely Tyson Laurie Metcalf   
Tags: Drama Urban Drama 
Length: 120min
Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) directed this Walter Mosley script adaptation of Mosley's short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Ex-con Socrates Fortlow (Laurence Fishburne) returns to L.A., looks for work, becomes friends...

Cast: Andy Garcia   
Tags: Period Film Gangster Film Crime 
Length: 130min
The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to Harlem at the...































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