Movies: Rhetta Hughes

  • 1971
    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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    After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels....

    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  • 1985
    Tenement

    Tenement (1985)

    Tenement

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    A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building....

    Tenement
  • 1981
    Purlie

    Purlie (1981)

    Purlie

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    Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musi...

    Purlie
  • 1985
    A Killing Affair

    A Killing Affair (1985)

    A Killing Affair

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    Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fa...

    A Killing Affair
  • 1972
    Don't Play Us Cheap

    Don't Play Us Cheap (1972)

    Don't Play Us Cheap

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    As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two mischief-making devil-bats take human form in order to break up the party....

    Don't Play Us Cheap
  • 1982
    Long Day's Journey Into Night

    Long Day's Journey Into Night (1982)

    Long Day's Journey Into Night

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    Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie. As day tur...

    Long Day's Journey Into Night