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Lockdown
2000 • Drama • Thriller
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Ca…
Matched on: Bonds
Get on the Bus
1996 • Drama • Adventure • History
Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among the attendees are an eclec…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Tales from the Hood
1995 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Imperial Dreams
2014 • Drama
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Wood
1999 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-Amer…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Dope
2015 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an under…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
3 Strikes
2000 • Romance • Comedy • Action
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Gangster Squad
2013 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he h…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller