Charles Burnett Filmes

An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

A musician spends New Year's Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer...

A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told from the perspective of a...

A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an upwardly...

How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who...

This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A...

Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known...

A teenage boy leaves a moment of boredom while his father works on his old car, and the mother wishes to go out for a stroll around the block. One...

Sa-I-Gu, literally translated in Korean as April 29, is the day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots or uprising. Three months after the events, the...

Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family...

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

Filmmaker Thomas Penick explores race, gender and violence in this provocative, disturbing drama set on a hot, summer day in 1969. When a woman...

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating...

This critically acclaimed 1973 short is about an aristocratic white farming family who has a horse that is being put away, by the father of a young...