The best Cicely Tyson’s movies on YouTube

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson

19/12/1924- 28/01/2021
Today we present the best Cicely Tyson’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Cicely Tyson’s movies.
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The Help

The Help
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/08/2011
  • Character: Constantine Jefferson
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/12/1991
  • Character: Sipsey
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.

Alex Cross

Alex Cross
5.2/10
After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

The Concorde... Airport '79

The Concorde... Airport '79
4.4/10
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
5.3/10
A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

Hoodlum

Hoodlum
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1997
  • Character: Stephanie St. Clair
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

Madea's Family Reunion

Madea's Family Reunion
5.3/10
Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, are suffering relationship trouble, and through it all, she has to organize her family reunion.

Last Flag Flying

Last Flag Flying
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/11/2017
  • Character: Mrs. Hightower
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Doc and his old buddies take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire. Along the way, the three men find themselves reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie
6.4/10
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Why Did I Get Married Too?
4.7/10
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.

Bustin' Loose

Bustin' Loose
6/10
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
5.7/10
Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life.

Idlewild

Idlewild
6.2/10
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.

Sounder

Sounder
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1972
  • Character: Rebecca Morgan
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/07/1968
  • Character: Portia
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.

The Comedians

The Comedians
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1967
  • Character: Marie Therese
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

The Women of Brewster Place

The Women of Brewster Place
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/03/1989
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 14/10/2016
  • Character: Herself
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/02/1978
  • Character: Sweets
Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year old Benjie (Larry B. Scott) turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom, his mother (Cicely Tyson) and her boyfriend (Paul Winfield) must sacrifice to help him overcome his dependency. Directed by Ralph Nelson, this heartwarming drama tackles the battle of a troubled youth, his struggles with addiction, and the impact felt by those around him.

The Marva Collins Story

The Marva Collins Story
7.7/10
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children labelled "unteachable" were spotlighted in a 1979 "60 Minutes" segment about how she became disillusioned with the traditional school system and decided to work outside of it, transforming her students into young scholars through her unique teaching style.

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