Margaret Avery

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Avery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Margaret Avery
  • Popularity: 11.318
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1944-01-20
  • Place of Birth: Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Margaret Avery (I), Margaret Jo Avery, Margret Avery
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Margaret Avery Movies

  • 1985
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    The Color Purple

    The Color Purple

    7.751 1985 HD

    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....

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  • 1973
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    Magnum Force

    Magnum Force

    7.113 1973 HD

    "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...

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  • 1977
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    Which Way Is Up?

    Which Way Is Up?

    6 1977 HD

    Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid...

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  • 1995
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    The Set Up

    The Set Up

    4.4 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

    6 2008 HD

    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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  • 1990
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    The Return of Superfly

    The Return of Superfly

    5.8 1990 HD

    In this third entry in the Superfly films, Priest returns to New York from Paris to find who is responsible for his friend's murder. With a couple of...

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  • 2008
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    Meet the Browns

    Meet the Browns

    6.7 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

    The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

    5.5 1979 HD

    The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become...

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  • 1973
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    Hell Up In Harlem

    Hell Up In Harlem

    5.569 1973 HD

    Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City....

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  • 2007
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    Lord Help Us

    Lord Help Us

    3.7 2007 HD

    Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation...

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  • 1972
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    Cool Breeze

    Cool Breeze

    5.1 1972 HD

    A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.

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  • 1972
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    Terror at Red Wolf Inn

    Terror at Red Wolf Inn

    5.7 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Scott Joplin

    Scott Joplin

    6 1977 HD

    The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

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  • 2007
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    Exodus

    Exodus

    5.8 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Riverbend

    Riverbend

    4.7 1989 HD

    A black major (Steve James) 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...

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  • 2006
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    Waitin' to Live

    Waitin' to Live

    1 2006 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    The Nana Project

    The Nana Project

    4.5 2023 HD

    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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  • 2002
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    Second to Die

    Second to Die

    3.7 2002 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    Block Party

    Block Party

    6.1 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    We Are Gathered Here Today

    We Are Gathered Here Today

    6 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    Is That Black Enough for You?!?

    Is That Black Enough for You?!?

    7.4 2022 HD

    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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  • 1983
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    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    1 1983 HD

    This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...

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  • 1995
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    White Man's Burden

    White Man's Burden

    5.014 1995 HD

    The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis...

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  • 1993
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    Night Trap

    Night Trap

    4.1 1993 HD

    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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  • 1973
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    An Eye for an Eye

    An Eye for an Eye

    5 1973 HD

    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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  • 1999
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    Love Kills

    Love Kills

    2.5 1999 HD

    A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

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  • 1988
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    Blueberry Hill

    Blueberry Hill

    3.5 1988 HD

    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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  • 1990
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    Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

    6.2 1990 HD

    A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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  • 2018
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    Proud Mary

    Proud Mary

    5.5 2018 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Lightning in a Bottle

    Lightning in a Bottle

    4.8 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Something Evil

    Something Evil

    5.362 1972 HD

    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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  • 1976
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    Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style

    Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style

    1 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    The Lathe of Heaven

    The Lathe of Heaven

    6.8 1980 HD

    George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist,...

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  • 1980
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    The Sky Is Gray

    The Sky Is Gray

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Bones

    Bones

    8.233 2005 HD

    Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder...

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  • 2013
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    Being Mary Jane

    Being Mary Jane

    7.3 2013 HD

    Mary Jane Paul is a one-woman-show: a successful TV news anchor, and an entirely self-sufficient powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that...

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  • 2015
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    The Carmichael Show

    The Carmichael Show

    7.4 2015 HD

    From the comedy of Jerrod Carmichael and Nick Stoller ("Neighbors") comes an irreverent sitcom inspired by Jerrod's relationships with his...

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  • 2014
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    The Librarians

    The Librarians

    7.265 2014 HD

    A group of librarians set off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts. Based on the series of "The Librarian" movies.

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  • 1997
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    Die Gang

    Die Gang

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1973
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    Kojak

    Kojak

    6.9 1973 HD

    A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

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  • 2018
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    The Neighborhood

    The Neighborhood

    7.6 2018 HD

    The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness....

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  • 2005
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    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey's Anatomy

    8.229 2005 HD

    Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

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  • 1985
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    MacGyver

    MacGyver

    7.741 1985 HD

    He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon....

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 2017
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    Genius

    Genius

    7.8 2017 HD

    The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships,...

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  • 1984
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    The Cosby Show

    The Cosby Show

    7.006 1984 HD

    The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until...

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  • 1992
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    The Jacksons: An American Dream

    The Jacksons: An American Dream

    6.6 1992 HD

    The history of the Jackson family and the early and successful years of the Motown group The Jackson 5.

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  • 2024
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    A Man on the Inside

    A Man on the Inside

    7.3 2024 HD

    A retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home.

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