Cicely Tyson Movies

List of the best Cicely Tyson movies: Sounder(1972), The Trip to Bountiful(2014), Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace(2020), A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich(1977), A Woman Called Moses(1978), Ms. Scrooge(1997), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman(1974), Fat Rose and Squeaky(2006), Bustin' Loose(1981), Jewel(2001), Relative Stranger(2009), A Lesson Before Dying(1999) ... ...

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Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

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The Trip to Bountiful

Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.

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Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace

When a woman is indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer thinks there may be a conspiracy at play.

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A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

A ghetto boy (Larry B. Scott) becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother (Cicely Tyson) and foster father (Paul Winfield) help him fight it.

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A Woman Called Moses

Escaped slave Harriet Tubman (Cicely Tyson) leads an underground railroad taking others north to freedom.

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Ms. Scrooge

A contemporary version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" features a female Ebenita Scrooge (Cicely Tyson).

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.

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Fat Rose and Squeaky

Bonnie's niece tricks her out of house.

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Bustin' Loose

An ex-convict (Richard Pryor) takes handicapped orphans and their teacher (Cicely Tyson) from Philadelphia to Washington state by bus.

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Jewel

A loving mother and wife (Farrah Fawcett) in 1940s Mississippi focuses her undivided attention on her newborn child who has Down syndrome.

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Relative Stranger

After the death of his father, a former football star (Eriq La Salle) reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

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A Lesson Before Dying

A caring teacher (Don Cheadle) tries to inspire strength and dignity in an innocent black man (Mekhi Phifer) condemned to death in 1940s Louisiana.

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Because of Winn-Dixie

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

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Last Flag Flying

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.

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The Blue Bird

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl ( Patsy Kensit ) and her brother Tyltyl ( Todd Lookinland ), are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness (Nedezhda Pavlova) by the ... See full summary »

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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

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Showing Roots

Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.

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Alex Cross

A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in torture and pain.

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Fried Green Tomatoes

A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

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Madea's Family Reunion

While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.

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The Women of Brewster Place

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The Help

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

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Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?

While on vacation in the Bahamas, the unexpected arrival of one's ex-husband causes some longtime friends to examine the strength of their own marriages.

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Idlewild

At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, pianist Percival lives life by the rules, while Rooster, the club's flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But all changes when greed, fame and murder threaten to destroy them and the joint.

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The Concorde: Airport '79

A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.

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Odds Against Tomorrow

Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.

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