14 October 1982 Drama, Romance 104 mins
A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area.
Watch the official Cane River 1982 trailer in HD below or find more Cane River videos on Vidimovie.
Tommye Myrick as Maria Mathis
Richard Romain as Peter Metoyer
Barbara Tasker as Dominique
Ilunga Adell as Brother
Lloyd La Cour as Mr. Metoyer
Carol Sutton as Ms. Mathis
Stephen Severin as Beau
Horace B. Jenkins Director
Horace B. Jenkins Writer
Horace B. Jenkins Producer
Gideon Manasseh Cinematography
Roy Glover Music
Debra I. Moore Editor
United States 14 October 1982
If you liked the Cane River trailer, you may like these ones:
26 March 2025
Eleven-year-old Alexander and his family embark on a dream Spring Break vacation to Mexico City only to have all their plans go terribly wrong when they discover a cursed idol.
25 March 2023
Since the year 2000, there have been several waves of suicides among the indigenous population of the Colombian Amazon.
25 December 1996
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
16 August 1936
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations.
01 January 1929
Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives.
17 June 2022
Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage.
11 September 2008
RROMANI SOUL traces the true origin of the Rroma people. Through rituals, song and dance we follow emblematic figure and "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova to Macedonia, south of France and finally to India.
02 October 2003
Shankar, a city lad, pays a visit to his ancestral village. When he decides to settle there for good, he faces opposition from his own family and from a village bigwig.
23 October 2014
As Manny has second thoughts about getting married, he is visited by an unexpected guest.
21 April 2021
Motivated by family memories, a filmmaker returns to the land of his mother to reflect on his identity and deep cultural heritage.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Cane River:
2007 interview and reading of Cane River by Lalita Tademy. Recorded before YouTube allowed videos longer than ten minutes. We are proud to bring the ...
Be sure to click on the gear symbol and play in HD.
Four generations of strong endure the hardships of 19th and 20th rural Louisiana. That is why Cane River by Lalita Tademy should be a miniseries. Sh should ...
King Scratch - Cane River Rock - 1980.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1982:
25 June 1982
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
03 April 1982
A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress.
01 January 1982
The Bed opens with Jamie, a young man, looking round an old, deserted country house. Through flashback we see Jamie as a boy, scared out of his wits when his older sister and her boyfriend, left alone in the house to babysit Jamie for the evening, play cruel tricks on him.
23 July 1982
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.
18 November 1982
Sally (Sally Yeh) is a club singer, caught in a love rectangle between three men: Stone (Kenny Bee), a bank robber newly released from prison, club owner Paul King (Michael Chan Wai-Man) and Pow (Melvin Wong), a policeman.
10 October 1982
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire .
01 January 1982
A film by Haydée Caillot with Eric Rohmer, Anne Rouanet, Jean-Pierre Caminade, et al.
14 April 1982
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
03 December 1982
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.
31 December 1982
While hitchhiking to escape an abusive home life, a teenage girl is picked up by a couple on a camping trip.
Have you watched Cane River yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1982 ZDF, Oscilloscope.