In Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights movement, aspiring author Skeeter Phelan decides to write a book about the lives of the African American maids who work for white families. As she delves into their stories, she exposes the hardships they face on a daily basis due to racial segregation and discrimination.
During the Great Depression, a movie star steps off the screen and into reality, falling in love with a lonely woman in New York City. This fantasy-becomes-reality tale explores the complexities of love, happiness, and the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Alice Adams, a small-town girl, tries to improve her social status by dating a wealthy playboy. Along the way, she faces challenges like unemployment, theft, and prejudice.
Boom Town is a movie set in the 1920s during an oil boom in a small town. It follows the story of two wildcatters who become partners and face romantic rivalry, sabotage, and deception. The film portrays the challenges and successes of the oil industry during that time.
Queen Bee is a drama/romance movie that tells the story of a jealous woman and a lumber company owner. The woman is the business manager for the company and becomes infatuated with the owner, who is married. The plot follows their complicated relationship and the consequences it has on those around them.
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
A writer and a horse-breeder get married but their relationship is tested by jealousy and divorce court. Comedy ensues as they navigate through a ladies club, a historical desk, and an African-American servant. Set during Christmas time, chaos erupts with a Santa Claus costume, a birthday present, and a raucous race track.
When a man's wife leaves him, he develops an alter ego that he believes is invisible. This alter ego causes him to commit a series of murders, all while the police try to catch the elusive killer.
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is a suave and clever criminal who takes on various cases to right the wrongs of the world. In this thrilling installment, The Saint finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse as he tries to bring down a notorious mobster and seek vengeance for a fallen friend. With twists and turns at every corner, The Saint must use all his wit and charm to outsmart his enemies and save the day.
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.
“Burn Hollywood Burn” was released as a single for PE’s third album, Fear of a Black Planet. The song is a scathing examination of stereotypes about Blacks in Hollywood films from the perspectives of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Big Daddy Kane, and future Hollywood actor/director/producer Ice Cube, who talked about how a meeting with Lyor Cohen at Def Jam's New York office led to this collaboration and led to the Bomb Squad producing his debut album, Amerikkka's Most Wanted.
An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.
When a series of murders take place in a haunted mansion, a group of people must navigate through a web of deception and fear to uncover the truth.