It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 months before her death.

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

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

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

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

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...

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

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school g...

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

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

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

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...
Documentary short showcasing the genius of jazz greats Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Cozy Cole, and...

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy unt...

The star-studded special celebrates the trailblazing music series' 40th anniversary. With guest host...

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the...