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Cicely Tyson
Filmography
Cicely Tyson - filmography
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The Help
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: Tate Taylor
Certificate: 
Watch now: £3.49
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives and a Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent ..read more »
 
81%
from 8,094 members
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The Help - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: Tate Taylor
Certificate:
Watch now: £3.49
A 1960s-era Mississippi debutante sends her community into an uproar by conducting a series of probing interviews with the black servants behind some of her community's most prominent families. Skeeter (Emma Stone) has just graduated from college, and she's eager to launch her career as a writer. ..read more »
82%
from 2,749 members
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Idlewild
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Big Boi, Andre 3000, Macy Gray
Director: Bryan Barber
Certificate: 
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
53%
from 1,431 member
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Because Of Winn-Dixie
(2005)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Anna Sophia Robb, Cicely Tyson
Director: Wayne Wang
Certificate: 
A smart, resourceful young girl, Opal thinks people forgot how to share the joy. She's tired of moving from small town to small town with her father (Jeff Daniels), a preacher at the Open Arms Baptist Church; she just wants to find a home and stop being lonely. One night she wishes for a best ..read more »
62%
from 2,454 members
Not currently released
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore
Director: Darren Grant
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, the devoted wife, seem to have everything, money, a beautiful mansion - the American Dream. But just as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes a turn for the worst.
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from 744 members
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The Rosa Parks Story
(2002)
Starring: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Tonea Stewart
Director: Julie Dash
Certificate: 
The incident that propelled the American Civil Rights struggle into the limelight was brought about by a woman who refused to give up her seat to a white woman after a hard day at work. Rosa Parks (played by Angela Bassett from WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT) unwittedly became a national focus for a ..read more »
66%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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A Lesson Before Dying
(1999)
Starring: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer
Director: Joseph Sargent
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An uplifting tale of a black man (Phifer) in the 1940's South who is wrongly accused of killing a white man. His attorney's only defense is that he is an animal, a hog, and, therefore, is unaccountable for his actions. Predictably, he is convicted of the crime. Distraught in a prison cell, his ..read more »
60%
from 192 members
Not currently released
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Always Outnumbered
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Natalie Cole, Laurie Metcalf
Director: Michael Apted
Certificate:
Socrates Fortlow tries to avoid trouble, but trouble comes looking for him. Running a killer out of town, falling in love with his best friend's wife, trying to save the life of a murder witness. When it comes to trouble, people look for the man who is still standing. From the best-selling author ..read more »
60%
from 112 members
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Hoodlum
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Andy Garcia
Director: Bill Duke
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Bill Duke's HOODLUM, with its rich visuals, brutal violence, and moral probing, pays homage to THE GODFATHER and other classic gangster films while exploring the nature of black empowerment as it relates to criminality. The film is Duke's second collaboration with Laurence Fishburne, and as with ..read more »
58%
from 602 members
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The Women Of Brewster Place
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: JackÚe, Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson
Director: Donna Deitch
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Based on Gloria Naylor's novel, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE is the rare made-for-tv feature that provides numerous deeply drawn and affecting characters and entertains. Aided immeasurably by star turns from Oprah, Cicely Tyson, and, of course, Jackee, director Donna Deitch's intensely moving film ..read more »
62%
from 137 members
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Bustin Loose
(1981)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson
Director: Oz Scott
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Foulmouthed Joe (Richard Pryor) breaks his parole, but is given a chance to prove his worth by a schoolteacher (Cicely Tyson). She hires him to drive a bus full of Special School kids from Philadelphia, but Joe is a bit unnerved by their various mental problems. Soon, however, the bonds of ..read more »
56%
from 17 members
Currently unavailable
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Roots - Original Series - 25th Anniversa...
(3 discs)
(1977)
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Edward Asner, Chuck Connors
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, Marvin J. Choms
Certificate: 
In 1977, the miniseries ROOTS aired, changing the face of television-and American culture-forever. This highly acclaimed series, based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel, follows the lineage of Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), an African man abducted from his village and sold into slavery in the United ..read more »
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from 2,919 members
Not currently released
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The River Niger
(1976)
Starring: James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr.
Director: Krishna Shah
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River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto.
10%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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The Blue Bird
(1976)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner
Director: George Cukor
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A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities
57%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Michael Murphy, Odetta
Director: John Korty
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This highly acclaimed drama, based on the epic novel by Ernest J. Gaines, eloquently covers the story of the Black Experience - from the Civil War to the civil rights movement - all told from the memories of a fictional 110 year-old slave played by Cicely Tyson. Ms.Tyson's tour-de-force performance,..read more »
61%
from 47 members
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The Comedians
(1967)
Starring: James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Richard Burton
Director: Peter Glenville
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Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a ..read more »
66%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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