I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Watch Movie
1979
1h 36m
4.0(9 votes)
Drama
TV Movie

Overview

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

39 members
Acting

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Paul Benjamin
Acting

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Diahann Carroll
Acting

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Ruby Dee
Acting

Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Roger E. Mosley
Acting

Esther Rolle

Momma

Esther Rolle
Acting

Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

Madge Sinclair
Acting

Sonny Jim Gaines

Uncle Willie

No Image
Acting

Art Evans

Principal

Art Evans
Acting

Constance Good

Maya

No Image
Acting

John M. Driver II

Bailey, Jr.

No Image
Acting

Georgia Allen

Mrs. Gurney

No Image
Acting

J. Don Ferguson

Mr. Donleavy

J. Don Ferguson
Acting

Tonea Stewart

Lillie

Tonea Stewart
Acting

Monica Kyles

Julie

No Image
Acting

Rick Salassi

Parmenian

No Image
Acting

Lewis Liddell

Tommy

No Image
Acting

Sammy Liddell

Ira

No Image
Acting

Sylvester Spann

Tutti

No Image
Acting

Shaunery Stevens

Policeman

No Image
Acting

Hosie Phillips

Preacher

No Image
Acting

Myra Jo Arvin

Red

No Image
Acting

George Cummins

Sheriff Rogers

No Image
Acting

Torain

Teacher

No Image
Acting

Darleen Taylor

Girl #1

No Image
Acting

Laurie Waters

Tall Girl

No Image
Acting

Mose Lee Williams

Mrs. Fletcher #1

No Image
Acting

Frankie Mitchell

Mrs. Fletcher #2

No Image
Acting

M.L. Breeland

Mr. Peters

No Image
Acting

Angela Brown

Kitty

No Image
Acting

Abbie Burns

Mary

No Image
Acting

Johnny Lewis

Picker #1

No Image
Acting

John L. Patterson

Man

No Image
Acting

James Peters

2nd Man

No Image
Acting

Melvin Kennerly

3rd Man

No Image
Acting

Shirley Perkins

Woman

No Image
Acting

John C. Roper Jr.

White Man

No Image
Acting

Terri Ann Ross

Small Girl

No Image
Acting

I.D. Thompson

Black Man

No Image
Acting

Darryl Antony Williams

Tommy Valdon

No Image

Similar Movies

The Theory of Everything
7.8
2014

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

Movie
The Celebration
7.7
1998

The Celebration

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Movie
The New Interns
4.0
1964

The New Interns

Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.

Movie
The Common Man
7.0
1975

The Common Man

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...

Movie
Willenbrock
6.1
2005

Willenbrock

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.

Movie
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
6.9
1919

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

Movie
Do the Right Thing
7.8
1989

Do the Right Thing

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Movie
Seven Years in Tibet
7.2
1997

Seven Years in Tibet

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Movie
Irreversible
7.2
2002

Irreversible

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Movie
Una tarde en la vida de dos niños kelpers
2014

Una tarde en la vida de dos niños kelpers

Alex and Dani, two Kelper children living in Stanley, Falkland Islands, skip school to play in the fields, as they usually do every day. One afternoon, when they discover a black, viscous liquid they believe to be oil, their historical differences come to light.

Movie
Girl, Interrupted
7.6
1999

Girl, Interrupted

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Movie
Jarhead
6.7
2005

Jarhead

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.

Movie
Natural Born Killers
7.1
1994

Natural Born Killers

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Movie
Afterimage
2024

Afterimage

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

Movie
Flashback
1.0
1997

Flashback

A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war.

Movie
The Pianist
8.4
2002

The Pianist

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Movie
Princesses
6.7
2005

Princesses

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.

Movie
Paul & Paulette Take a Bath
2025

Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.

Movie
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
6.8
2002

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Movie
Reign Over Me
7.2
2007

Reign Over Me

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Imitation of Life
7.4
1959

Imitation of Life

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

Movie
Oppenheimer
8.0
2023

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Movie
12 Angry Men
8.5
1957

12 Angry Men

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Movie
Pulp Fiction
8.5
1994

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Movie
Titanic
7.9
1997

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Movie
Joker
8.1
2019

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Movie
Back to the Future
8.3
1985

Back to the Future

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Movie
2001: A Space Odyssey
8.1
1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Movie
Inside Out
7.9
2015

Inside Out

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

Movie
PK
7.7
2014

PK

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

Movie
Scarface
8.2
1983

Scarface

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Movie
Inception
8.4
2010

Inception

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

Movie
Shutter Island
8.2
2010

Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Movie
Annie Hall
7.7
1977

Annie Hall

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

Movie
Hocus Pocus
7.0
1993

Hocus Pocus

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

Movie
Psycho
8.4
1960

Psycho

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Movie
American Beauty
8.0
1999

American Beauty

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Movie
The Shining
8.2
1980

The Shining

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Movie
Extraction
7.3
2020

Extraction

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

Movie
The Bucket List
7.2
2007

The Bucket List

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

Movie