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Foxy Brown
1974 • Thriller • Crime • Action
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
American Pimp
2000 • Documentary
Street pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being flamboyant, pimping in various U.S. cities, bringing a woman into their group, t…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Starsky & Hutch
1975 • Drama • Crime • Action & Adventure
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988 • Crime • Comedy • Action
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by Joh…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Whore
1991 • Drama • Comedy
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Suburbans
1999 • Music • Drama • Comedy
The Suburbans, a one-hit-wonder new wave band from the '80s, reunite at their bassist's wedding, where a promising young record executive sees the ensemble perform. When she enc…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Borrower
1991 • Science Fiction • Comedy • Horror
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
Busting
1974 • Drama • Crime • Action
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Shakedown
1988 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Streetwalkin'
1985 • Drama • Thriller
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie mee…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Howling VI: The Freaks
1991 • Horror
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
Why matched: genres Horror
Snakehead Swamp
2014 • Science Fiction • Horror
A horrifying hybrid of genetic science and nature has taken over the Louisiana bayou, leaving terror in its wake! In the heat of the summer, what began as an day of boating and…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Horror
Pretty Baby
1978 • Drama
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
Why matched: genres Drama
Conrack
1974 • Drama
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds th…
Why matched: genres Drama
Cleopatra Jones
1973 • Thriller • Crime • Action
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
The Celluloid Closet
1996 • History • Documentary
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage fro…
Why matched: genres History, Documentary
Across 110th Street
1972 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Up the Academy
1980 • Comedy
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the h…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976 • Drama • Comedy
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Putney Swope
1969 • Comedy
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
Why matched: genres Comedy