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1	The Color Purple (1985) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $13.99!
2	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) more movies like this directed by Tyler Perry featuring Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, Frankie R. Faison, Jennifer Lewis Prolific playwright Tyler Perry adapts his popular stage play of the same name in this family-oriented comedy concerning a desperate mother who connects with the family she never knew. Brenda is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling for years to keep her kids off of the streets. Suddenly let go from her job with no warning to ... see all copies from $6.18! new only from $9.56!
3	Which Way Is Up? (1977) more movies like this directed by Michael Schultz featuring Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery, Morgan Woodward, Marilyn Coleman This Americanized remake of Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi offered audiences the novelty of seeing Richard Pryor performing three different roles in the same film. Which Way Is Up? tells the tale of Leroy Jones (Pryor), a poor orange picker who gets fired from his job when he accidentally joins a worker's union during a demonstration. He ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.66!
4	White Man's Burden (1995) more movies like this directed by Desmond Nakano featuring John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower From director-writer Desmond Nakano comes this unusual role-reversal picture examining racism from a different perspective. Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) is a semi-literate worker in a chocolate candy factory. One day he makes a delivery to the mansion of wealthy Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte). He is noticed while he is unintentionally looking ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79!
5	Mardi Gras for the Devil (1993) more movies like this directed by David A. Prior featuring Mike Starr, Robert Davi, Michael Ironside, Lesley-Anne Down, Margaret Avery, John Amos A killer who strikes only during Mardi Gras turns out to be a supernatural demon (Michael Ironside) who has sought human sacrifices ever since the original festival began as an occultist ceremony. The New Orleans cop assigned to the case (Robert Davi) tracks the demon around the city with his partner (Mike Starr) and must save the girl he loves ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $4.57!
6	The Return of Superfly (1990) more movies like this directed by Sig Shore featuring Nathan Purdee, Margaret Avery, Leonard Thomas, Christopher Curry, Carlos Carrasco In this actioner, Eddie Baker is brutally murdered by drug dealers. Later expatriate, reformed drug-dealer Superfly is conned into returning to the US from Paris by federal drug agents. He then must let his former cronies know that he wants back into the drug business. Superfly hasn't been a dealer for over twenty-years, and doesn't realize that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19!
7	Heat Wave (1990) more movies like this directed by Kevin Hooks featuring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the only journalist on staff able to cover the story, since White reporters were unable to gain access to the area and the rioters. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide see all copies from $2.95! new only from $4.68!
8	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) more movies like this directed by Malcolm D. Lee featuring Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael Clarke Duncan A single father who has just found success as the host of an outrageous television talk show begins to question his path in life when he returns home to attend his parents' 50th wedding anniversary party in the company of his famous fiancée -- a reality television star -- in this crisis-of-conscience comedy starring Martin Lawrence. RJ Stevens ... see all copies from $9.74! new only from $15.88!
9	Scott Joplin (1977) more movies like this directed by Jeremy Kagan featuring Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Eubie Blake, Godfrey Cambridge Billy Dee Williams stars as legendary ragtime pianist/composer Scott Joplin in this 1977 biopic. Despite his brilliance, Joplin (1868-1917) was confined by the color of his skin to the dregs of show business in the late 19th century. While competing in a musical contest, Joplin introduces his most famous composition, "The Maple Leaf Rag", thereby ... see all copies from $41.69! new only from $59.99!
10	Riverbend (1989) more movies like this directed by Sam Firstenberg featuring Steve James, Margaret Avery, Tony Frank, Julius Tennon, Alex Morris In this made-for-TV actioner, three rebellious black army officers disobey orders in Vietnam and refuse to destroy a village filled with innocent people. They are sent to Georgia where they undergo a court-martial. The officers know that they are going to be railroaded and so manage to escape. The fugitives end up in Riverbend, hiding in the home ... see all copies from $9.00!
11	Blueberry Hill (1988) more movies like this directed by Strathford Hamilton featuring Carrie Snodgress, Margaret Avery, Jennifer Rubin, Matt Lattanzi, Tommy Swerdlow A first-rate jazz score dominates the coming-of-age drama Blueberry Hill. Jennifer Rubin plays a small town girl of the 1950s whose musician father dies suddenly. Rubin's grief is not assuaged by her mother Carrie Snodgrass, who is having enough trouble coping with the tragedy on her own. The young girl must turn to jazz singer Margaret Avery for ... see all copies from $3.00!

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