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The Least Among You (2009)
Character: Bessie Benton
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, he's close to cracking until he meets an elderly custodian who helps him navigate the trials of racism.
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Duck (2005)
Character: Social Worker
An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.
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Magic Max (2021)
Character: Mrs. Chambers
After a tragic loss of both parents, 11-year-old Tim Hart is forced to live with his immensely immature Uncle Max, a second rate magician. and who, with the help of his nephew, tries to cultivate his last hand at love.
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Orpheus Star (2020)
Character: Pastor Ezrela Mae Privett
Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother who'd raised him, a Baptist preacher battling demons of her own. Despite childhood memories of emotional trauma, Douglas agrees to stay in town and help her with therapy. Douglas searches for Cal, his only childhood friend and secret crush, but only finds Cal's younger sister, Jaylene. While staring at a starry night sky, Douglas recalls a positive memory o his grandmother and has a chance encounter with Dora, a wise homeless woman.
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Odd Jobs (1986)
Character: Dwight's Mom
Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.
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Let's Get Bizzee (1993)
Character: Mrs Baker
High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.
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The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six (1980)
Character: N/A
In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on protecting and clearing the names of their sons, several mothers bonded together to make their story known. This work emerges as a powerful close up of police brutality, and of power dynamics of 1960's Harlem.
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Games Mother Never Taught You (1982)
Character: Ann
Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game.
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A Raisin in the Sun (1989)
Character: Ruth Younger
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
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The Guest (1977)
Character: Woman
A woman reveals her inner thoughts as she performs various chores around the bedroom.
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Alone (1997)
Character: Lois
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
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Strapped (1993)
Character: Diquan's Mother
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes a deal with a weapons cop to turn in local gun dealers. However, the D.A. is not satisfied with the results, resulting in some serious game playing and double crossing.
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The Road to Galveston (1996)
Character: Sally
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
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Full Circle (1996)
Character: Miriam Blake
A young woman, traumatized by rape at an early age, slowly learns to trust and love again as she struggles to avoid repeating her mother's mistakes.
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Runaway Father (1991)
Character: Ruth
A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
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The Waterdance (1992)
Character: Florence
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.
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True to the Game 3 (2021)
Character: Gah-Git
The trilogy picks right up where True 2 left us. Gena's awakes to find that her mysterious savior is Quadir. Before happily ever after, Gena has 72 hours to go back to Philly to check on Bria and Gah Git and let them know of her plans.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Character: Sgt. Hunter
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
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True to the Game (2017)
Character: Gah-Git
Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to the Game is the love story of Quadir Richards, a charismatic drug lord, and Gena Rollins, a young girl from the projects of Philly. Quadir was able to gain the trust and love of Gena and was on his way out of the game to start a new life with his future bride when tragedy strikes.
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South Central (1992)
Character: Nurse Shelly
During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to convince Jimmie to leave the gang that was his only family during the painful years his absent father spent behind bars.
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The Gambler (1974)
Character: Monique
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
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Friday After Next (2002)
Character: Sister Sarah
Craig and his cousin Day-Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.
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Wolf (1994)
Character: Victim's Mother
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
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A Haitian Wedding (2023)
Character: N/A
Follows Stephanie Duran, a smart and driven young woman who apparently has the answers to everyone else's issues, however, it is challenged by problems faced with her own self-discovery and her soon-to-be husband.
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Frogs! (1991)
Character: Principal Caverly
Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles with a wicked witch, Arlo must come to the rescue, catapulting them into s series of adventure in which they both come to realize you must be true to yourself.
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The Kid with the 200 I.Q. (1983)
Character: Minna Newell
A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.
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Death Wish (1974)
Character: Lady at Police Station (uncredited)
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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3 Strikes (2000)
Character: Moms Douglas
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, they are pulled over, and his friend shoots at police officers, and Hooks escapes. Now Hooks, a wanted man, must clear his name of having nothing to do with the shooting.
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Ricochet (1991)
Character: Mrs. Styles
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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One Battle After Another (2025)
Character: Grandma Minnie
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
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Soul Mates (2023)
Character: Allison's Grandmother Marie
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
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Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Character: Savannah's Mother
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
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Chiller (1985)
Character: Nurse
A wealthy industrialist arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber. When the instructions are not followed properly, he emerges from the frozen crypt as an empty, soulless creature with an appetite for destruction.
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Heart for the Holidays (2023)
Character: N/A
A high-powered Los Angeles businesswoman gets moved to a small town for an emergency heart transplant.
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Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Character: Bobby's Mother
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
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Convicts (1991)
Character: Martha Johnson
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
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The Maker (1997)
Character: Technician
Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
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First Sunday (2008)
Character: N/A
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
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Big Momma's House (2000)
Character: Miss Patterson
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
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Dark Exodus (1985)
Character: N/A
Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white population that still sees Blacks as property, an African American family in the South sends its sons away to a better life. Visualizing the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North in sepia tones, director Iverson White’s period film captures the atmosphere of early 20th century America.
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A Beautiful Soul (2012)
Character: Deaconess
An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes, leaving a chance for redemption in its wake. But with rebirth, first comes death.
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The Notebook (2004)
Character: Nurse Esther
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
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