Devil in a Blue Dress (
1995) | IMDb:
6.8
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Tom Sizemore
,
Jennifer Beals
,
Don Cheadle
,
Maury Chaykin
,
Terry Kinney
Directed by:
Carl Franklin
Made in America (
1993) | IMDb:
5.1
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.
In Country (
1989) | IMDb:
5.9
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.
Directed by:
Norman Jewison
Valley of the Dolls (
1967) | IMDb:
6
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."
Directed by:
Mark Robson