The best Ruby Dee’s romance movies

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

27/10/1922- 11/06/2014
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Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/06/1991
  • Character: Lucinda Purify
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/05/1961
  • Character: Ruth Younger
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.

Love at Large

Love at Large
5.7/10
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.

Feast of All Saints

Feast of All Saints
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/11/2001
  • Character: Elsie Claviere
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.

Virgin Island

Virgin Island
5.9/10
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
6.4/10
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

All About Us

All About Us
4.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/10/2007
  • Character: Ms. Ella
Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they soon discover what matters to them most.

Politics of Love

Politics of Love
3.1/10
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Democratic counterpart: a beautiful Indian-American Obama campaign volunteer. Sparks fly, tempers flare, heads turn, and romance blossoms for this mismatched pair of lovers in the frantic and intoxicating days leading up to Election Day. Can the politics of love conquer all?

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