List of the best Paula Kelly movies: Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored(1995), The Spook Who Sat by the Door(1973), The Andromeda Strain(1971), Soylent Green(1973), Sweet Charity(1969), Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling(1986), Uptown Saturday Night(1974), Cool Breeze(1972), The Women of Brewster Place(1989) ... ...
Drama
USA
1995
112 Minutes
Ma Pearl
Al Freeman Jr. Paula Kelly Phylicia Rashad Polly Bergen Richard Roundtree Charles Earl Taylor Jr. Ray J Damon Hines Leon Salli Richardson-Whitfield Anna Maria Horsford
young boy great-grandfather great-grandmother dancer friend tender powerful moving engaging mississippi small town church school segregation civil rights movement community childhood overcoming the odds adolescence discovery
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Drama
1973
102 Minutes
Dahomey Queen
Lawrence Cook Paula Kelly Janet League J.A. Preston Paul Butler Don Blakley David Lemieux Byron Morrow Jack Aaron Joseph Mascolo
A former CIA agent (Lawrence Cook) organizes black teenagers into well-trained guerrilla bands bent on overthrowing the white establishment.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1971
130 Minutes
Karen Anson
Arthur Hill David Wayne James Olson Kate Reid Paula Kelly Ramon Bieri George Mitchell Kermit Murdock
scientist doctor nurse soldier military officer chilling intense laboratory nevada arizona virus satellite suicide alien mystery pursuit 1970s
A team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1973
97 Minutes
Martha
Charlton Heston Edward G. Robinson Leigh Taylor-Young Chuck Connors Brock Peters Paula Kelly
executive detective best friend concubine bodyguard priest dark suspenseful shocking new york city factory cathedral police station apartment dystopia overpopulation food industry government secrets poverty assisted suicide
A police officer in the year 2022 uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food.
Musical
USA
1969
154 Minutes
Helene
Shirley MacLaine John McMartin Ricardo Montalban Sammy Davis Jr. Chita Rivera Paula Kelly Stubby Kaye Barbara Bouchet
dancer actor celebrity love interest engaging passionate new york city central park elevator romance optimism depression marriage song and dance bad luck love quest 1960s
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1986
97 Minutes
Satin Doll
Richard Pryor Debbie Allen Carmen McRae Art Evans Fay Hauser Barbara Williams Paula Kelly Diahnne Abbott Scoey Mitchell Billy Eckstine Wings Hauser
comedian young boy mother grandmother father emotional moving illinois city stage los angeles hospital stand-up comedy fame drug addiction self-destruction coma near-death experience wretched excess discovery
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
Comedy
USA
1974
104 Minutes
Leggy Peggy
Sidney Poitier Bill Cosby Harry Belafonte Flip Wilson Richard Pryor Rosalind Cash Roscoe Lee Browne Paula Kelly Johnny Sekka Lee Chamberlin Calvin Lockhart
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.
Crime, Drama
USA
1972
101 Minutes
Thalmus Rasulala Judy Pace Jim Watkins Lincoln Kilpatrick Sam Laws Margaret Avery Wally Taylor Raymond St. Jacques Rudy Challenger Royce Wallace Paula Kelly
Thalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to find a new bank.
Drama
1989
179 Minutes
Oprah Winfrey Robin Givens Moses Gunn Mary Alice Olivia Cole Jackée Lonette McKee Paul Winfield Cicely Tyson Phyllis Yvonne Stickney Paula Kelly