French Quarter 1978  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dennis Kane
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Davison, Lindsay Bloom, Alisha Fontaine, Ann Michelle, Vernel Bagneris, Lance LeGault, Stocker Fontelieu, Becky Allen, Anna Filamento, William Simms, Laura Misch Owens, Don Hood, Stanley Reyes, Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Each performer in this film has dual roles: one in modern times and the other in the past. The story begins in the early 1900s in New Orleans' red-light district and then covers the characters' reincarnations many years later. Affected by a voodoo curse, they are all living new lives despite what their futures might hold.
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Obsession 1976  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Wanda Blackman, Don Hood, Pat McNamara, Stanley Reyes, Nick Kreiger, Stocker Fontelieu
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) is haunted by the kidnapping and murder of his wife and daughter. Then, on a visit to Italy, he meets Sandra Portinari (Genevieve Bujold) who eerily resembles his dead wife Elizabeth (also played by Bujold).
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Sounder 1972  G, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Taj Mahal, Carmen Mathews, James Best, Janet MacLachlan, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Eric Hooks, Yvonne Jarrell, Teddy Airhart, Richard Durham, Myrl Sharkey, Inez Dunham, William T. Bennett
Set during 1933 in Louisiana, this is an uplifting story about a Black sharecropper, Nathan Morgan (Paul Winfield), who is sent to jail on a false charge. His wife, Rebecca (Cicely Tyson), manages to keep the family together until Nathan's return. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor (Winfield) and Actress (Tyson).
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Sounder, Part 2 1976  G, 98 min.
Genre: Family
Director: William A. Graham
Cast: Harold Sylvester, Ebony Wright, Taj Mahal, Annazette Chase, Darryl Young, Erika Young, Barbara Chaney, Warren Kenner, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Irene Nofles
This story continues the events of the Morgan family's life when they help get community involvement in building a much-needed school.
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| 1. French Quarter (1978)
2. Obsession (1976)
3. Sounder (1972)
4. Sounder, Part 2 (1976)
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