Margaret Avery
Birthday: 1944-01-20
Place of Birth: Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
Biography: Margaret Avery (born January 20, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple (1985). Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Avery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Color Purple
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
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Magnum Force
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who...
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Which Way Is Up?
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving be...
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The Set Up
Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from ja...
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind h...
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The Return of Superfly
Priest returns to New York from Paris to find his friend's murderer. With a couple of new allies, he...
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Meet the Browns
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet...
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrol...
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Hell Up In Harlem
A Harlem gangster must rescue his ex-wife, who's been kidnapped by the Mafia....
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Lord Help Us
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bil...
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Cool Breeze
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen....
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Terror at Red Wolf Inn
College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vac...
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Scott Joplin
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time....
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Exodus
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with...
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Riverbend
A black major and his men are on the run from a rigged court-martial and hide out in a small Georgia...
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Waitin' to Live
Murdered because he refused to sell his land to a greedy opportunist, Bucko Cassidy (Lee Majors) ret...
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The Nana Project
Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip ...
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Second to Die
Sara escapes a life of poverty and abuse to marry Jim Bratchett, but her joy is short-lived when she...
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Block Party
Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for h...
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We Are Gathered Here Today
The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his ...
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making ...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Miss...
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White Man's Burden
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and white...
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Night Trap
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul t...
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An Eye for an Eye
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the...
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Love Kills
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills mill...
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Blueberry Hill
In a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns aw...
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Heat Wave
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the blood...
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Proud Mary
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned...
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Lightning in a Bottle
Charlotte Furber gets into an accident in which a man loses his life. She suffers amnesia and everyb...
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Something Evil
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is a...
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Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was frame...
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The Lathe of Heaven
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift ...
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The Sky Is Gray
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simpl...
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Orpheus Star
Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to se...
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Single Women, Married Men
After an affair with a married man, a single, female psychologist helps organize a support group for...
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