Top Results for “Bette Davis”
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The Bloody Brood

Cult · Horror

Two years before directing the 3-D cult favorite The Mask (1961), Julian Roffman made his feature directorial debut with this early canuxploitation film, The Bloody Brood (1959).

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Documentary · Biography

CAPTURED ON FILM deploys archival film clips, rare home videos and narration by Charlize Theron to explore Marion Davies' one-of-a-kind life and work.

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

World Cinema · Documentary · History

Working secretly with activists and ordinary Africans, Lionel Rogosin created the first film exposing apartheid. He then took the fight for equality home to the US with the astonishing Black Roots.

Lost in the Stars

African-American · Theatre

Lost in the Stars transforms Alan Paton's world-famous novel of racial oppression, Cry the Beloved Country, into a tragic and beautiful film musical unlike any you've ever seen. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's lucid lyrics and Kurt Weill's (The Three Penny Opera) powerful music, and guided by Daniel Ma…

Naked Acts

Comedy · Drama

Celebrated as a key film in the canon of Black independent cinema of the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s Naked Acts tells the story of an aspiring actor who has just landed her first major role, but must overcome her fear of disrobing in public when she learns it requires a nude scene.

Variety

Cult · Noir · Neo-Noir

Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Christine develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. Few films deal honestly with a female sexual point-of-view, controversial and highly personal, VARIETY does just this.