List of the best Frances Foster movies: Take a Giant Step(1959), Crooklyn(1994), Clockers(1995) ... ...
Drama
USA
1959
100 Minutes
Poppy
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 »
Drama
USA
1994
112 Minutes
Alfre Woodard Delroy Lindo David Patrick Kelly Zelda Harris Carlton Williams Sharif Rashed Tse-Mach Washington Christopher Knowings Jose Zuniga Isaiah Washington Ivelka Reyes
young girl brother teacher father mother musician emotional moving brooklyn, n.y. apartment american south country house coming of age family youth growing up love transformation 1970s
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
Drama
USA
1995
128 Minutes
Harvey Keitel John Turturro Delroy Lindo Mekhi Phifer Isaiah Washington Keith David Pee Wee Love Regina Taylor Tom Byrd Sticky Fingaz Fredro Starr
drug dealer drug lord police detective brother mother gritty bleak intense brooklyn, n.y. housing project church inner-city life drug trade murder investigation police brutality growing up transformation mystery 1990s
Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.