In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

Solace

2018

English

5.0

♡ 6

100%

Action

Drama

Tchaiko Omawale Director

Glynn Turman as Clay

Lynn Whitfield as Irene

Hope Olaide Wilson as Sole

Ralph Cole Jr. as Stacey

Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.

Justine

2019

English

6.7

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Stephanie Turner Director

David Theune as Captain Shillman

Glynn Turman as Papa Don

Melanie Hutsell as Pat Parker

Christine Ko as Talia

A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state, finds solace in her relationship with an eight-year-old, physically-disabled girl named Justine, who she takes care of.

Uncle P

2007

English

3.7

♡ 2

84%

Action

Comedy

Master P Director

Brendan Hill as

Booboo Stewart as Biker Kid

Glynn Turman as Dr. Niles

Reynaldo Rey as Mailman

Rapper/multi-millionaire P. Miller becomes the guardian of his sister's three children - all of whom need a father figure in their lives.

Penitentiary II

1982

English

4.5

♡ 5

Jamaa Fanaka Director

Dennis Lipscomb as Announcer

Glynn Turman as Charles Johnson

Peggy Blow as Ellen Johnson Mr. T

Mr. T as Mr. T

An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.

Five on the Black Hand Side

1973

English

6.4

♡ 4

45%

Action

admiring

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Oscar Williams Director

Henry G. Sanders as Barber Shop patron

Glynn Turman as Gideon

Carl Franklin as Marvin

Sonny Jim Gaines as Sweetmeat

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

1974

English

5.3

♡ 5

30%

lust and impulsiveness

Robert Taylor Director

Joan Gerber as Han's Wife

Felton Perry as (voice)

Pat Harrington Jr. as (voice)

Glynn Turman as (voice)

Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction.

Act Like You Love Me

2013

English

5.2

39%

sister sister relationship

Dan Garcia Director

Glynn Turman as David

Lynn Whitfield as Harriett

Essence Atkins as Kelly

Denyce Lawton as Susan

Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. However, Kelly has struggled to find time for love in her busy schedule, so when her younger sister Susan gets engaged to a seemingly perfect man and organizes an extravagant engagement party, Kelly panics. She hires a gorgeous actor for the weekend to accompany her to the party. Her ruse quickly develops into something real and Kelly realizes the only thing missing in her life is love.

Thomasine & Bushrod

1974

English

6.0

♡ 3

62%

Action

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Gordon Parks Jr. Director

Glynn Turman as Jomo J. Anderson

Juanita Moore as Pecolia

Vonetta McGee as Thomasine

George Murdock as U.S. Marshal Bogardie

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.

Out of Bounds

1986

English

5.5

♡ 4

43%

smuggling (contraband)

Thriller

Richard Tuggle Director

Raymond J. Barry as Hurley

Glynn Turman as Lieutenant Delgado

Jerry Levine as Marshall

Jeff Kober as Roy Gaddis

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.

Cooley High

1975

English

7.1

♡ 10

83%

Michael Schultz Director

Robert Townsend as Basketball Player in Gym Class

Steven Williams as Jimmy Lee

Garrett Morris as Mr. Mason

Glynn Turman as Preach

In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.

J.D.'s Revenge

1976

English

6.0

♡ 7

50%

63%

Action

blaxploitation cinema

Arthur Marks Director

Julian Christopher as Carl

Fuddle Bagley as Enoch Land

Bob Minor as Husband

Glynn Turman as Isaac

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2020

English

6.9

♡ 31

97%

72%

Action

based on play or musical

George C. Wolfe Director

Colman Domingo as Cutler

Taylour Paige as Dussie Mae

Joshua Harto as Policeman

Glynn Turman as Toledo

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

Straw

2025

English

6.5

♡ 50

55%

Tyler Perry Director

Rockmond Dunbar as Chief Wilson

Teyana Taylor as Detective Kay Raymond

Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah Wiltkinson

Glynn Turman as Richard

What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.

Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery

2008

English

6.1

♡ 4

Crime

Drama

Mystery

David S. Cass Sr. Director

Susan Blakely as Camilla Meera

Anthony M. Bertram as Corrupt Businessman

Barry Van Dyke as Mike Bryant

Glynn Turman as Sheriff Bob Monroe

Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.

Dakota's Summer

2014

English

5.6

♡ 12

Timothy Armstrong Director

Julie Ann Emery as Annie Cayne

Keith Carradine as Austin Rose

Glynn Turman as Isaac Benson

Joe Nemmers as Mr. Dexter

Cowgirls 'n Angels Dakota's Summer tells the story of Dakota Rose, a cowgirl and competitive trick rider who finds out at the age of seventeen that she was adopted. She secretly sets out to discover the truth about her adoption and meet her birth parents while visiting her grandfather, rodeo legend Austin Rose. At Austin's ranch on break from the Sweethearts of the Rodeo trick riding team, Dakota discovers that family is not defined by blood, but rather personal commitment and by the love they share. Finally at peace, Dakota trains with Austin in order to prepare to rejoin the Sweethearts for their final competition against the talented Lone Star trick riding team and become the champion trick rider she was destined to be.