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Author
Series
Evergreen book ; E-159
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
"A Taste of Honey tells the story of a working-class adolescent girl and her various relationships: the black sailor who gets her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through the pregnancy; her fun-loving and saloon-frequenting mother; and Peter, her mothers newly acquired husband." --
2) Café au lait
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
An interracial romantic trio come to grips with joint parenthood when a pregnant woman has two lovers and refuses to reveal which of them is the father.
3) Get out
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears." --
4) Jungle fever
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A black architect begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors.
5) Ben & Ara
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Religious and cultural tensions escalate when an unlikely romance blooms between an African Islamic PhD candidate and her agnostic classmate. They must explore the limits of their interracial, intercultural relationship in today's society.
6) A fond kiss
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A second generation Pakistani in Glasgow falls for the White, Irish Catholic music teacher at his sister's school. They try to make the relationship work despite a tentative arranged marriage and parental and societal pressures.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Daniel Webster is an unconventional Episcopalian priest who is challenged on many levels as he struggles to be a good husband, father, and minister, while navigating an often rocky relationship with the church hierarchy.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Though his wartime service left him with hatred for the enemy, an assignment with occupation forces in postwar Japan will transform Sergeant Hugh O'Reilly. In a small war-ravaged village, he begins a love affair with his translator, Yuko. Facing her family's vehement opposition, and seeing Yuko on the arm of an escort at a charity event turns him against her and the Japanese people. But his commanding officer helps him to realizes he is in love and...
10) Shanghai kiss
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A struggling actor, in love with a young high school student, must travel to Shanghai after his grandmother passes away and leaves him the family home. Can his new love survive the cultural differences and a large age gap?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Prince plays Christopher Tracy, an American musician living on the French Riviera and on the bank accounts of bored divorcees. The money is good but not good enough, so Christopher sets out to woo and marry a lovely young heiress. But he didn't count on confronting the heiress' enraged father, or falling in love.
12) Guess who
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Percy Jones is the understandably proud father of Theresa. She is a beautiful and intelligent young woman living in New York City. When Percy learns that his daughter is seriously dating a young man, he decides to do some research, and learns that her beau is a solid businessman. Percy arranges to meet Theresa's boyfriend and is a bit taken aback when he meets Simon. Percy never guessed that his daughter was involved in an interracial relationship....
13) Rez bomb
Publisher
Roaring Fire Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Set on and around Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Rez Bomb is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love but get themselves into trouble with a brutal money lender and must race against the clock to bail themselves out." --
14) The landlord
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A social satire about a wealthy young man (Bridges) who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love in a Brooklyn ghetto.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Robert Lomax, who aspires to follow his passion to paint and having quit his architectural profession, lands in Hong Kong. On the ferry he meets a young girl Suzie Wong who lies that she is from a wealthy family but actually is working as a "Wan Chai girl" in the Wan Chai district on Hong Kong island. Lomax may have an opportunity to be the husband of a Hong Kong banker's daughter, but he chooses to be with Suzie Wong. Some street and harbour scenes...
17) Shadows
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherd's radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white.
18) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection ; 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
CHARADE: Comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
NICE GUYS: In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover...
20) Blind dating
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Danny is smart, handsome, popular, and blind-- and not just physically. He also can't see how wild women are for him. Even his sexy therapist can't keep her clothes on around Danny. After a series of painful blind dates set up by his brother, Danny falls for a young Indian woman named Leeza, and finally everything seems picture perfect. But when cultures clash, and Leeza reveals that she's been promised to someone else, Danny must prove to her that...