Browse Esther Rolle Movies
- 1989
Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy7.2391989HD
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew...
- 1995
How to Make an American Quilt
How to Make an American Quilt6.3981995HD
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits...
- 1973
Cleopatra Jones
Cleopatra Jones5.71973HD
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
- 1993
House of Cards
House of Cards6.2721993HD
When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sall...
- 1964
Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man7.41964HD
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
- 1981
See China and Die
See China and Die01981HD
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from...
- 1998
Down in the Delta
Down in the Delta6.41998HD
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...
- 1993
To Dance with the White Dog
To Dance with the White Dog7.1671993HD
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
- 1986
Ethnic Notions
Ethnic Notions7.11986HD
This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
- 1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings3.71979HD
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...
- 1978
Summer of My German Soldier
Summer of My German Soldier6.2861978HD
Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and...
- 1989
Age-Old Friends
Age-Old Friends01989HD
John Cooper is in a retirement home. There are strict rules for the residents, but he refuses to fall into passivity. He flirts constantly with Nurse...
- 1993
Message from Nam
Message from Nam5.11993HD
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work o...
- 1989
The Mighty Quinn
The Mighty Quinn6.1541989HD
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapi...
- 1995
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West01995HD
Real stories of five women of the Old West....
- 1996
My Fellow Americans
My Fellow Americans61996HD
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...
- 1997
Rosewood
Rosewood6.5561997HD
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
- 1967
Up the Down Staircase
Up the Down Staircase6.9051967HD
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an...
- 1972
Don't Play Us Cheap
Don't Play Us Cheap5.81972HD
As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two mischief-making devil-bats take human form in order to break u...
- 1989
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun81989HD
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.