List of the best Charles Burnett movies: Killer of Sheep(1977), To Sleep With Anger(1990), My Brother's Wedding(1983), Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property(2003), When It Rains(1995), Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation(2007), Relative Stranger(2009) ... ...
Drama
USA
1977
80 Minutes
Director
Henry Sanders Kaycee Moore Charles Bracy Angela Burnett Eugene Cherry Jack Drummond
patriarch wife child friend bleak moving solemn los angeles slaughterhouse house street poverty inner-city life family unusual occupations underdog sacrifice love 1970s
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
Drama
USA
1990
102 Minutes
Director
Danny Glover Paul Butler Mary Alice Richard Brooks Carl Lumbly Sheryl Lee Ralph Vonetta McGee Wonderful Smith Ethel Ayler
vagabond guest father mother son daughter-in-law uneasy dark powerful emotional los angeles family home street living room kitchen bedroom hospitality friendship family dysfunction illness
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
Drama
USA
1983
116 Minutes
Director
Everett Silas Jessie Holmes Gaye Shannon-Burnett Ronnie Bell Dennis Kemper Sy Richardson Frances Nealy
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to-do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding.
Documentary
USA
2003
57 Minutes
Director
The story and legacy of the enigmatic leader of the notorious 1831 homicidal slave revolt in Virginia, along with reviews of works about him, are explored; twentieth century civil rights discussed and cultural relativism mentioned.
Drama
USA
1995
13 Minutes
Director
Ayuko Babu Florence Bracy Kenny Merritt Juno Lewis Charles Bracy Brittany Bracy
Police detectives investigate the apparent serial killing of several children, after finding severed hands.
Drama
Namibia
2007
161 Minutes
Director
Carl Lumbly Danny Glover Joel Haikali
Drama
2009
88 Minutes
Director
Eriq La Salle Cicely Tyson Michael Michele Michael Beach Dan Castellaneta Dana Davis Carlos McCullers II
After the death of his father, a former football star (Eriq La Salle) reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.