Moments Without Proper Names

1987

English

7.4

♡ 1

Action

black america

black filmmakers documentary

Gordon Parks Director

Avery Brooks as

Joe Seneca as

Roscoe Lee Browne as (as Rosco Lee Browne)

Gordon Parks as Self

Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through a non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines his photographs with his poetry, musical compositions and scenes from his films. It also features footage of Parks, plus interpretations of his personal reminiscences performed by actors Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.

Mississippi Masala

1991

English

6.8

♡ 13

92%

64%

Drama

immigrant

interracial relationship

Mira Nair Director

Denzel Washington as Demetrius Williams

Tico Wells as Dexter Williams

Sarita Choudhury as Meena

Joe Seneca as Williben Williams

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.

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Mississippi Masala