The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
Clancy (Malcolm Goodwin), an amateur late-night radio host, decides to play his recently deceased ja...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a ...
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious pa...
A wistful PI reflects on the case of Alice Draper, a young starlet whose death he failed to solve.
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous consp...
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ...