Carmen Jones 1954  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Diahann Carroll, Joe Adams, Brock Peters, Roy E. Glenn Sr., Nick Stewart, Sandy Lewis
Otto Preminger's terrific African American cast enhances this film version of Oscar Hammerstein's successful 1943 Broadway play. Dorothy Dandridge was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of that ultimate femme fatale: Carmen Jones.
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Claudine 1974  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu, David Kruger, Yvette Curtis, Stefan Gierasch, Art Evans
Diahann Carroll was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a single mother with six kids who tries to survive in the inner-city and must decide whether her boyfriend, Roop (James Earl Jones), is the one she really wants to spend her life with.
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Eve's Bayou 1997 R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Jake Smollett, Ethel Ayler, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Diahann Carroll, Lisa Nicole Carson
Ten-year-old Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) who adores her father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson). During the summer of 1962 she watches as her father makes love to a married woman, and she confides her secret to her older sister, Cisely (Meagan Good). This leads to a series of lies through which Cisely tries to sort out truth.
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Goodbye Again 1961 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis, Diahann Carroll, Pierre Dux, Lee Patrick, Peter Bull, Michele Mercier
Based on a story by Francoise Sagan, the plot for this film involves an older woman (Ingrid Bergman) who is torn between her longtime paramour (Yves Montand) and a dashing younger man (Anthony Perkins).
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Hurry Sundown 1967  N/R, 142 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Robert Hooks, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, George Kennedy, Jim Backus, Robert Reed
An avaricious Southerner, Henry Warren (Michael Caine), plots to expand his landholdings and has his eye on his cousin's land. Rad McDowell (John Phillip Law) and Reeve Scott (Robert Hooks) try to stop him.
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Paris Blues 1961 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, Serge Reggiani, Barbara Laage, Andre Luguet, Marie Versini, Moustache, Aaron Bridgers, Guy Pedersen, Helene Dieudonne, Niko, Dominique Zardi
American ex-patriots Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are jazz musicians living in Paris after World War II. They meet American tourists Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann Carroll) and fall in love. Connie convinces Eddie to return to America with her and face his fears of racism. Ram, on the other hand, has last minute doubts about leaving Paris and tells Lillian at the train station that he will not be joining her in America. Backed by Duke Ellington's jazz score, the music includes "Take the A Train," "Sophisticated Lady," "Mood Indigo," "Paris Stairs," and "Nite." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Musical Score.
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 Porgy and Bess 1959 N/R, 146 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan Dixon, Claude Akins, Pearl Bailey, Clarence Muse, Ruth Attaway
Andre Previn and Ken Darby won the Academy Award for Best Musical Score for this film based on Ira Gershwin's classic folk opera about life on Catfish Row.
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The Split 1968  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Jack Klugman, Warren Oates, James Whitmore, Donald Sutherland, Joyce Jameson
After pulling off a heist at the L.A. Coliseum during a Rams game, McClain (Jim Brown) ends up having his stolen money ripped off by a crooked cop, Walter Brill (Gene Hackman).
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| 1. Carmen Jones (1954)
2. Claudine (1974)
3. Eve's Bayou (1997)
4. The Five Heartbeats (1991)
5. Goodbye Again (1961)
6. Hurry Sundown (1967)
7. Paris Blues (1961)
8. Porgy and Bess (1959)
9. The Split (1968)
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