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.

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An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...

Maria has always managed to make ends meet running her cafe full-time until Caspian; her former love...

Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...

Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed wit...

Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confiden...

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...
August, 1961: in an East Berlin jazz club, dissident Andreas, released from jail, awaits reunion wit...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

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...

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenór...

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play ...

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ...

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...