The best Diahann Carroll’s drama movies

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll

17/07/1935- 04/10/2019
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Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/11/1997
  • Character: Elzora
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Paris Blues

Paris Blues
6.7/10
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, who are vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds Paris more exciting than America and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and Eddie wants to stay for the city's more tolerant racial atmosphere.

Goodbye Again

Goodbye Again
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/05/1961
  • Character: Nightclub Singer
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.

Carmen Jones

Carmen Jones
6.8/10
The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.

The Five Heartbeats

The Five Heartbeats
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/03/1991
  • Character: Eleanor Potter
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.

Claudine

Claudine
7.3/10
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.

Hurry Sundown

Hurry Sundown
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1967
  • Character: Vivian Thurlow
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.

Death Scream

Death Scream
6.3/10
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/02/2000
  • Character: Betty Hemings
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.

Murder in Black and White

Murder in Black and White
5.8/10
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

The Courage to Love

The Courage to Love
6.2/10
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
6.9/10
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess
7/10
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

From the Dead of Night

From the Dead of Night
5.9/10
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead. Her boyfriend Glen thinks she's crazy so Joanna turns to her ex-boyfriend, Peter. It just so happens that Peter is a strong believer in the supernatural and even teaches a course on it at a local college. Together they must confront the "walkers" so that Joanna can live to see another day.

Diary of a Single Mom

Diary of a Single Mom
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/01/2009
  • Character: Therapist
Ocean (Monica Calhoun), a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the residents and the problems found within. As she struggles with a new job, a new home, her own children, a difficult niece, and the issues of other tenants, all within learn something about taking action and using compassion in their own lives.

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/12/2000
  • Character: Maria Cole
The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and living in her father's shadow while still maintaining her own celebrity status.

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