Charles Burnett

Filmography

Charles Burnett - filmography

Warming By The Devil's Fire on DVD (2003)
Starring: Charles Burnett
Director: Charles Burnett
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Produced by Martin Scorsese and helmed by seven major film directors (including Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, and Charles Burnett), this seven-part collection traces the history of the blues. Beginning by discovering the earliest recorded works of the blues from the 1920s, and ending with the ..read more »

62% from 189 members

The Wedding on DVD (1997)
Starring: Halle Berry, Lynn Whitfield, Shirley Knight
Director: Charles Burnett
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Halle Berry stars as young, beautiful and privileged Shelby who's engaged to a white jazz musician called Meade. His parents won't attend because Shelby is black. Her parents don't have a problem with it, but when a handsome black man called Lute arrives on the scene Shelby begins to get cold feet ..read more »

55% from 356 members

The Glass Shield (1994)
Starring: Ice Cube, Lori Petty, Michael Ironside
Director: Charles Burnett
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In this action thriller, an ambitious rookie cop and his station's only female deputy uncover widespread corruption and conspiracy when they realize that an innocent man has been jailed for a shocking murder. Suddenly, these two outsiders are forced to make an impossible choice: fit into an unjust ..read more »

55% from 2 members
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To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Starring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, De Vaughn Nixon
Director: Charles Burnett
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Charles Burnett's beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterisation. Harry Mention (Danny Glover), an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon (Paul Butler), who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. ..read more »

59% from 167 members
Currently unavailable

My Brother's Wedding on DVD (1983)
Starring: Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett
Director: Charles Burnett
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A 2 disc presentation set of the original version and the new Director's Cut of Burnett's warm,wry drama about a young man torn between obligations to his hard-working family, aspirational brother and criminally-minded friends.

64% from 30 members

Killer of Sheep on DVD (1977)
Starring: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy
Director: Charles Burnett
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Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.

59% from 765 members

Warming By The Devil's Fire - 3.0 stars
The Wedding - 3.0 stars
The Glass Shield - 3.0 stars
To Sleep With Anger - 3.0 stars
My Brother's Wedding - 3.0 stars

Warming By The Devil's Fire - 3.0 stars
Killer of Sheep - 3.0 stars
To Sleep With Anger - 3.0 stars
The Wedding - 3.0 stars
My Brother's Wedding - 3.0 stars

The Glass Shield - 3.0 stars
My Brother's Wedding - 3.0 stars
The Wedding - 3.0 stars
To Sleep With Anger - 3.0 stars
Killer of Sheep - 3.0 stars

Angela Burnett - 2 times - show films
Ronnie Bell - 1 times - show films
Henry G. Sanders - 1 times - show films
Michael Ironside - 1 times - show films
De Vaughn Nixon - 1 times - show films