The best Joel Fluellen’s drama movies

Joel Fluellen

Joel Fluellen

01/12/1907- 02/02/1990
Today we present the best Joel Fluellen’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 Joel Fluellen’s movies.
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The Chase

The Chase
7.1/10
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion
7.3/10
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?

Run Silent, Run Deep

Run Silent, Run Deep
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/03/1958
  • Character: Bragg (uncredited)
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/10/1959
  • Character: Minister
Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Susie, while Lora pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Susie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her African-American identity.

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
8/10
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

Thomasine & Bushrod

Thomasine & Bushrod
5.9/10
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.

The Decks Ran Red

The Decks Ran Red
6.1/10
A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Congo Maisie

Congo Maisie
6.2/10
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.

The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/10/1970
  • Character: Tick
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/02/1954
  • Character: Al
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
7.9/10
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.

The Sheriff

The Sheriff
6.8/10
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.

Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger
6.5/10
A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter (Valli).

The Great Jewel Robber

The Great Jewel Robber
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/07/1950
  • Character: Train Waiter (uncredited)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.

The Jackie Robinson Story

The Jackie Robinson Story
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 16/05/1950
  • Character: Mack Robinson
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

Casey's Shadow

Casey's Shadow
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Jimmy Judson
Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.

The Learning Tree

The Learning Tree
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/08/1969
  • Character: Uncle Rob
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.

Duffy of San Quentin

Duffy of San Quentin
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1954
  • Character: Bill Lake
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

A Dream for Christmas

A Dream for Christmas
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/12/1973
  • Character: Arthur Rogers
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.

Perils of the Jungle

Perils of the Jungle
4.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/03/1953
  • Character: Kenny
On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions from Jo Carter but her animals are wiped out by a fire. Despite interference by rival dealer Gorman, who hopes to ruin Jo, Beatty saves her business by helping her to capture an adult gorilla. (2nd story) When Grant is bitten by a tsetse fly and falls ill, Beatty heads for the nearest hospital through the territory of the dangerous Matabeles tribe. They are captured and condemned to death by Grubbs, a white man living with the tribe and stealing their gold. Using the Matabele Boy King as a shield, Beatty and Grant make an escape and Grubbs is forced to accompany them, leaving his loot behind.

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