Cicely Tyson Movies

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

58/100

A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.

Because of Winn-Dixie

64/100

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Sounder

76/100

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Bustin' Loose

61/100

Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ... See full summary »

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

80/100

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

A Lesson Before Dying

70/100

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner...

The Blue Bird

54/100

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by... See full summary »

The Trip to Bountiful

70/100

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for ... See full summary »

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

72/100

The movie, adapted from Allan Gurganus' 1989 book of the same name, chronicles the life of Lucy Marsden, a ninety-nine-year-old North Carolina woman who, at the age of fourteen, married a ... See full summary »

Ms. Scrooge

53/100

A retelling of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

A Man Called Adam

65/100

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

66/100

A family is torn apart at Christmas when to wife of a couple, trying to adopt a son, is killed in a car accident and the husband, a musician, is deemed unfit to raise a child.

Jewel

63/100

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with four healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down syndrome.

The Marva Collins Story

75/100

This movie can inspire you to overcome whatever obstacles you have, when you see how Marva Collins overcame the obstacles, financial and otherwise, in opening her own School in her home. ... See full summary »

Wilma

59/100

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

Duplicates

53/100

A woman runs into a man who looks exactly like her dead brother. He claims he doesn't know her and leaves. She and her husband decide to investigate. This leads them to the Sandburg Research Institute.

Heat Wave

68/100

The events that led to the 1965's racial riots in Watts, Los Angeles, are covered by a black messenger-turned-reporter at the L.A. Times, as he was one of the first correspondents to arrive... See full summary »

The River Niger

64/100

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet...

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

69/100

Benjie is a troubled teen in Los Angeles, living with his grandmother, mother, and her new boyfriend...

Relative Stranger

65/100

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Fat Rose and Squeaky

62/100

Bonnie's niece tricks her out of house.

Playing with Fire

66/100

Unintentionally hilarious made-for-TV film starring a not-so-young Gary Coleman as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.

Neighbors

75/100

The Price of Heaven

68/100

Handsome Korean war veteran Jerry Shand gets a particularly enthusiastic welcome in his country home...

The Road to Galveston

72/100

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend...