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.

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

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black...

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Pari...

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f...

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...