Beah Richards Movies

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard...

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...

A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for...

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies...

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her...

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a...

Lonnie and Text are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil tells...

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.

A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.

A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the...

Leaving her son behind at her parents' home in Omaha, Nebraska, recent divorcée Zoe attempts to start her life anew by moving to San...

Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...

Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium...