List of the best Juanita Moore movies: Deliver Us From Evil(1974), Fox Style(1971), Thomasine & Bushrod(1974), A Dream for Christmas(1973), Abby(1974), Imitation of Life(1959), The Girl Can't Help It(1956), The Singing Nun(1966), Paternity(1981), Papa's Delicate Condition(1963), Uptight(1968), Walk on the Wild Side(1962) ... ...
Drama
USA
1974
94 Minutes
Renny Roker Juanita Moore Marie O'Henry Danny Martin
Violent and dramatic events dog the life of hot headed rebel Chris Townes. Drifting from one menial job to another, where he finds resentment and eventually arrest, he finaly loses his ... See full summary »
Drama
1971
88 Minutes
Hattie Fox
Chuck Daniel Juanita Moore Richard Lawson
An ambitious young black attains tycoon status after he and his white foster brother strike oil in Texas.
Crime, Drama
USA
1974
93 Minutes
Pecolia
Max Julien Vonetta McGee George Murdock Glynn Turman Juanita Moore Joel Fluellen Jackson D. Kane Bud Conlan
A rare blaxploitation classic starring Vonetta McGee and Max Julien, Thomasine and Bushrod was intended as a counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde. This pair of thieves, who operate in the ... See full summary »
Other, Drama
1973
100 Minutes
Fannie Mitchell
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.
Horror
1974
92 Minutes
Miranda "Momma" Potter
William Marshall Carol Speed Terry Carter Austin Stoker Juanita Moore Charles Kissinger Elliott Moffitt Nathan Cook
An archaeologist (William Marshall) tries to rid a minister's (Terry Carter) wife (Carol Speed) of a spewing demon dug up in Nigeria.
Drama
USA
1959
125 Minutes
Annie Johnson
Lana Turner John Gavin Sandra Dee Dan O'Herlihy Susan Kohner Robert Alda Juanita Moore Mahalia Jackson Troy Donahue
actress caretaker daughter playwright detective engaging moving melodramatic new york city california beach house ambition career fame identity mother/daughter relationship race relations pursuit rise
An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1956
99 Minutes
Hilda
Tom Ewell Jayne Mansfield Edmond O'Brien Henry Jones John Emery Juanita Moore Barry Gordon
mobster press agent bombshell singer rock star henchman rousing cheeky outlandish new york city apartment chicago recording studio organized crime popular music unrequited love romance ambition songwriting forbidden love
A gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his airheaded girlfriend a singing star.
Musical
USA
1966
98 Minutes
Sister Mary
Debbie Reynolds Ricardo Montalban Greer Garson Agnes Moorehead Chad Everett Katharine Ross Juanita Moore Ricky Cordell Michael Pate Tom Drake Larry D. Mann
nun priest record producer young boy heartwarming inspiring belgium convent music performance religious vows faith fame discovery transformation 1960s
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.
Comedy
USA
1981
95 Minutes
Celia
Burt Reynolds Beverly D'Angelo Lauren Hutton Norman Fell Paul Dooley Elizabeth Ashley Juanita Moore Peter Billingsley Jacqueline Brookes Linda Gillin Mike Kellin
A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.
Comedy
1963
98 Minutes
Ellie
Jackie Gleason Glynis Johns Charles Ruggles Laurel Goodwin Charles Lane Elisha Cook Jr. Juanita Moore Murray Hamilton
A railroad inspector's (Jackie Gleason) wife (Glynis Johns) and children live with his tippling in circa-1900 Texas.
Drama
USA
1968
104 Minutes
Mama Wells
Raymond St. Jacques Ruby Dee Frank Silvera Roscoe Lee Browne Julian Mayfield Janet MacLachlan Max Julien Juanita Moore Richard Williams Michael Baseleon Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, "The Informer."
Drama
1962
114 Minutes
Mama
Laurence Harvey Capucine Jane Fonda Anne Baxter Barbara Stanwyck Joanna Moore Richard Rust Karl Swenson Don "Red" Barry Juanita Moore John Anderson
prostitute brothel owner sweetheart farmer cafe owner woman engaging passionate melodramatic texas road new orleans brothel café louisiana unrequited love jealousy road trip prostitution friendship
A 1930s drifter (Laurence Harvey) finds his lost sweetheart (Capucine) working in a New Orleans brothel run by a mannish woman.
Comedy, Western
USA
1971
102 Minutes
James Garner Louis Gossett Jr. Susan Clark Brenda Sykes Ed Asner Andrew Duggan Henry Jones Neva Patterson Parley Baer Royal Dano George Tyne
In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.