List of the best Beah Richards movies: A Dream for Christmas(1973), Out of Darkness(1994), Beloved(1998), Mahogany(1975), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967), The Miracle Worker(1962), Take a Giant Step(1959), Gone Are the Days(1963), The Biscuit Eater(1972), A Christmas Without Snow(1980), Hurry Sundown(1967), Homer & Eddie(1989) ... ...
Other, Drama
1973
100 Minutes
Hari Rhodes Beah Richards Lynn Hamilton George Spell Juanita Moore Joel Fluellen Marlon Adams Robert DoQui Ta Ronce Allen Clarence Muse
minister father mother sibling housekeeper african-american uplifting emotional positive arkansas los angeles church family home family starting over relationships hard times religion christmas underdog
An Arkansas minister (Hari Rhodes) moves his family to Los Angeles, to a church about to be demolished.
Drama
Australia
1994
96 Minutes
Mrs. Cooper
Diana Ross Ann Weldon Rhonda Stubbins White Beah Richards Carl Lumbly Chasiti Hampton Lindsay Crouse John Marshall Jones Juanita Jennings Maura Tierney
schizophrenic mother student doctor nurse emotional disturbing positive powerful street hospital mental institution mental illness pharmaceuticals recovery mother/daughter relationship struggle rescue transformation 1990s
Will Denovan, a successful and driven real estate broker, wakes up dirty and disheveled in the middle of a mysterious wood with no idea how he got there. On the outside, Will is a huge ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1998
172 Minutes
Baby Suggs, aka Grandma Baby
Oprah Winfrey Danny Glover Thandie Newton Kimberly Elise Beah Richards LisaGay Hamilton Albert Hall Irma P. Hall Carol Jean Lewis Kessia Kordelle Jude Ciccolella
former slave daughter ghost husband schoolteacher son emotional dark chilling ohio household plantation market slavery mother/daughter relationship haunting murder sexual abuse abandonment mystery
Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman
Drama
1975
109 Minutes
Florence
Diana Ross Billy Dee Williams Anthony Perkins Jean-Pierre Aumont Beah Richards Nina Foch Marisa Mell Lenard Norris Ira Rogers Kristine Cameron Ted Liss
fashion model congressional candidate photographer designer boyfriend diva amusing melodramatic rome chicago runway fashion rags to riches relationships modeling ambition bad behavior love rise transformation
Comedy, Drama
USA
1967
108 Minutes
Mrs. Prentice
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Sidney Poitier Katharine Houghton Cecil Kellaway Beah Richards Roy E. Glenn Sr. Virginia Christine Isabel Sanford
fiancée doctor father mother priest maid powerful amusing emotional san francisco family home hawaii racism culture clash parenthood marriage forbidden love 1960s
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
Biography, Drama
USA
1962
106 Minutes
Viney, Keller Maid (uncredited)
Anne Bancroft Patty Duke Victor Jory Inga Swenson Andrew Prine Kathleen Comegys Beah Richards Jack Hollander
young girl teacher mother father inspiring emotional incredible uplifting powerful alabama family home blindness deafness daunting task teaching rescue transformation quest 1880s
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Drama
USA
1959
100 Minutes
May Scott
Johnny Nash Estelle Hemsley Ruby Dee Frederick O'Neal Ellen Holly Paulene Myers Beah Richards Royce Wallace Frances Foster Delmar Erickson Dee Pollak
african-american teenager grandmother housekeeper mother classmate prostitute emotional brooding engaging powerful high school family home bar apartment teen angst racial tension culture clash rebellion grandparent/child relationship fitting in
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1963
97 Minutes
Idella Landy
Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Sorrell Booke Godfrey Cambridge Hilda Haynes Alan Alda Beah Richards Charles Welch Ralph Roberts
reverend fiancée son plantation owner old man engaging spirited playful witty plantation barn church cotchipee, ga. civil rights deception father/son relationship schemes integration racism quest
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1972
90 Minutes
Charity Tomlin
Earl Holliman Johnny Whitaker George Spell Lew Ayres Godfrey Cambridge Pat Crowley Beah Richards Clifton James
dog trainer son best friend dog neighbor mother uplifting positive touching plantation veterinarian's office field friendship father/son relationship race dogs hunting competition underdog growing up
In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a field trials.
Other, Drama
1980
100 Minutes
Wendell's Grandma
Michael Learned John Houseman Ramon Bieri James Cromwell Valerie Curtin Ruth Nelson Beah Richards
divorcée choir director grandmother reverend melodramatic tender san francisco church houseboat hillside divorce self-esteem christmas mother/son relationship singing discovery rise 1980s
A lonely divorcee (Michael Learned) joins a choir and meets its stern director's (John Houseman) challenge of excellence.
Drama
USA
1967
146 Minutes
Michael Caine Jane Fonda Robert Hooks John Phillip Law Diahann Carroll Faye Dunaway Burgess Meredith Robert Reed George Kennedy Frank Converse Loring Smith
farmer racist klansman teacher profound gutsy emotional gritty georgia united states farm small town farming sharecropping partnership race relations extortion quest rivalry underdog
Following World War II, a northern cannery negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land 's owned by Julie Warren and has ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1989
100 Minutes
James Belushi Whoopi Goldberg Karen Black John Waters Robert Glaudini Jim Mapp James Thiel Jeffrey Thiel Andy Jarrel Anne Ramsey Wayne Grace
A slow-witted dishwasher (James Belushi) drives to Oregon with a dying woman (Whoopi Goldberg) who robs stores and shoots people.
Crime, Drama
USA
1967
109 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates Quentin Dean James Patterson William Schallert Lee Grant Scott Wilson Matt Clark Anthony James Larry Gates
detective police officer wealthy man widow virgil tibbs cool tense sparta, miss. small town police station diner murder racism abortion mystery transformation 1960s
A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.