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A History of God (2005)
Character: The Voice of History
For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong's acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.
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Coriolanus (1979)
Character: Volumnia
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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Man and Boy (1971)
Character: Ivy Revers
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
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To All My Friends on Shore (1972)
Character: Serena Blue
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
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Percy & Thunder (1993)
Character: Sugar Brown
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
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Top Secret (1978)
Character: Judith
A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists.
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The House of Dies Drear (1984)
Character: Sheila Small
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
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City of Hope (1991)
Character: Jeanette
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
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The Angel Levine (1970)
Character: Sally
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
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The Comedians (1967)
Character: Mrs. Philipot
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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The Cool World (1963)
Character: Duke's Mom
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.
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Separate But Equal (1991)
Character: Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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The Matrix (1999)
Character: Oracle
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Character: The Oracle
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
Character: Lee
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Character: Medusa
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.
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