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.

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

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...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...

A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world ...

On the eve of graduation, a high school student finds herself dealing with both college applications...

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

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by...

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

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...

In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles u...

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...

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...
August, 1961: in an East Berlin jazz club, dissident Andreas, released from jail, awaits reunion wit...

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

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

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

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