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Car Wash
1976 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- inclu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Nothing But a Man
1964 • Drama • Romance
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 • Drama • Romance
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
A Patch of Blue
1965 • Drama • Romance
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Something of Value
1957 • Drama • War
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Porgy and Bess
1959 • Music • Drama • Romance
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a go…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Too Late Blues
1961 • Music • Drama
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead hi…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Claudine
1974 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white commu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance