Margaret Avery
Margaret Avery (born January 20, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple (1985).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4117 |
| Birthday | 1944-01-20 |
| Place of Birth | Mangum, Oklahoma, USA |
| Also Known As | Margaret Avery (I), Margaret Jo Avery, Margret Avery, |
1985
The Color Purple
7.727/1960
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...
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The Color Purple
1973
Magnum Force
7.106/1193
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha...
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Magnum Force
1977
Which Way Is Up?
6.1/35
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spo...
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Which Way Is Up?
1995
The Set Up
4.3/21
Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool pr...
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The Set Up
2008
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
6.015/308
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
1990
The Return of Superfly
5.439/41
Priest returns to New York from Paris to find his friend's murderer. With a couple of new allies, he attempts to bring the killers to justice while tr...
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The Return of Superfly
2008
Meet the Browns
6.7/110
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she'...
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Meet the Browns
1979
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
5.679/14
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winne...
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1973
Hell Up In Harlem
5.531/48
A Harlem gangster must rescue his ex-wife, who's been kidnapped by the Mafia.
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Hell Up In Harlem
2007
Lord Help Us
3.667/6
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation o...
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Lord Help Us
1972
Cool Breeze
5.067/15
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
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Cool Breeze
1972
Terror at Red Wolf Inn
5.706/17
College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can ev...
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Terror at Red Wolf Inn
1977
Scott Joplin
6.375/8
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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Scott Joplin
2007
Exodus
5.8/2
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother i...
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Exodus
1989
Riverbend
5.4/5
A black major and his men are on the run from a rigged court-martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorising t...
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Riverbend
2006
Waitin' to Live
10/1
Murdered because he refused to sell his land to a greedy opportunist, Bucko Cassidy (Lee Majors) returns as a ghost to help his grown son, Junior (Der...
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Waitin' to Live
2023
The Nana Project
4.5/2
Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip to support her rise to state championships.
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The Nana Project
2002
Second to Die
4.2/11
Sara escapes a life of poverty and abuse to marry Jim Bratchett, but her joy is short-lived when she discovers that Jim intends her to be a full-time...
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Second to Die
2022
Block Party
6.1/5
Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers t...
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Block Party
2022
We Are Gathered Here Today
6/2
The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his family members are forced to say their goodbyes vi...
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We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
6.1/35
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
7/1
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1995
White Man's Burden
5.106/86
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pin...
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White Man's Burden
1993
Night Trap
3.933/15
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.
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Night Trap
1973
An Eye for an Eye
5.625/8
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get...
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An Eye for an Eye
1999
Love Kills
3.5/4
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.
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Love Kills
1988
Blueberry Hill
4/4
In a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns away from her. She finds solace in wise jazz singer...
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Blueberry Hill
1990
Heat Wave
6.8/5
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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Heat Wave
2018
Proud Mary
5.505/528
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she...
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Proud Mary
1993
Lightning in a Bottle
5.6/5
Charlotte Furber gets into an accident in which a man loses his life. She suffers amnesia and everybody thinks the man was drunk and therefore respons...
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Lightning in a Bottle
1972
Something Evil
5.441/59
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants...
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Something Evil
1976
Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
7/1
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Eur...
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Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
1980
The Lathe of Heaven
6.693/44
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, d...
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The Lathe of Heaven
1980
The Sky Is Gray
7/2
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's d...
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The Sky Is Gray
2020
Orpheus Star
0/0
Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother who'd...
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Orpheus Star
1989
Single Women, Married Men
7/1
After an affair with a married man, a single, female psychologist helps organize a support group for other women who have had similar experiences.
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