Loretta Devine
Author
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is centered around Latrice Monroe, a therapist who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She movies into a predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood and navigates her practice, he relationships, and her sanity with the town's biggest personalities Davis, Jeanette, and Theona. Her private practice is located in a vacant, street-front office space...
4) Violets
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
VIOLETS is a short film about love, and how one African-American family is transformed when its patriarch is revealed to be transgender. It follows John, a faithful father, son, husband, and LAPD officer grappling with gender identity and her journey as she and her wife Violet struggle to navigate love and life within their predominately Christian, African-American community in South Central, Los Angeles.
5) Spell
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While flying to his father's funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family. He awakens wounded, alone, and trapped in Ms. Eloise's attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic.
6) Urban legend
Author
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a New England college student finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend--a 25-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal psychology professor.
8) Queen bees
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly agreeing to move in to a senior's home, a woman encounters a clique of mean-spirited women and an amorous widower.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years, all the Whitfield kids have come home to spend the holiday with Ma'Dere and her boyfriend Joe. And each has brought plenty of baggage along with them. As the lights are hung and the tree is trimmed, secrets are revealed and ties are tested. But as their lives converge again, they join together to rediscover and celebrate the wonderful gift of family.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter, and the revelation...
12) Mack & Rita
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her inner 70-year-old.
Author
Language
English
Description
When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that Loretta, the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery, is retiring & has started a contest to give the bakery to whomever can recreate her famous 12 Days of Christmas recipes. Holly enters, as does a local baker named Brad and the 2 adversaries end up cooking up something special together for the holidays.
15) Caged No More
Author
Language
English
Description
When two girls are kidnapped by their father and sold into slavery to settle a drug debt, their grandmother will stop at nothing to get them back. Enlisting her well-known philanthropist son and former Special Forces grandson, the trio form an unlikely gang determined to free their family from bondage. Inspired by real events, Caged No More shows the quiet underbelly of American sex trade that is silently poisoning families in our own backyard.
17) No Regrets
Author
Language
English
Description
Flight attendant Nina Thomas (Monica Calhoun) has spent 12 years dating her college sweetheart. After rejecting his many marriage proposals, she finally decided to say yes. But after meeting a handsome divorcee (Brian White) during a long layover in Los Angeles, Nina finds herself in a compromising position she never expected and that may change her life forever.
19) Freedom Song
Author
Language
English
Description
Danny Glover and writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) reveal the impact of the 1960s civil rights movement on a small Southern town in the compelling drama Freedom Song.In the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi, the arrival of a civil rights group leader inspires a young African-American teenager, Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon), to join the crusade to desegregate his hometown. Leading sit-ins and helping black people register...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicole seems to have it all – a great job, an adoring husband – but her perfect world is shattered when her childhood friend is suddenly found dead. The tragedy reunites Nicole with her best friends from years ago, but they each soon find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can't be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them and this deadly nightmare is just beginning for the girls...