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An abused white girl is befriended by an elderly black couple
The Color Purple
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
The Color Purple
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 Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
The Blind Side
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
A Lesson Before Dying
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
Just an Overnight Guest
A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.
Biracial Beauties
The story of a girl learning to overcome racial microaggressions and find empowerment in a community of people who understand.
Before Women Had Wings
An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a no-good father, and a tender-hearted but reclusive black woman in the rural South of the '60s.
Growing Strong
A physically and emotionally abused girl escapes home in an attempt to find refuge at her free-spirited grandmother’s horse farm.
Whitepaddy
During changing times a White family find themsleves falling in-love with their Black next door neighbors.
Almost Adult
Two refugee teenage girls from Africa meet and become friends and help each other deal with the horrors in their past.
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