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The Return of Superfly
1990 • Drama • Crime • Action
Priest returns to New York from Paris to find his friend's murderer. With a couple of new allies, he attempts to bring the killers to justice while trying not to get into crimin…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Bad Lieutenant
1992 • Drama • Crime
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Dangerous Game
1993 • Drama
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead…
Why matched: genres Drama
Black Snake Moan
2006 • Drama
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
Why matched: genres Drama
King of New York
1990 • Thriller • Crime
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this styli…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Mo' Better Blues
1990 • Music • Drama
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the ai…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Negotiator
1998 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Twisted
2004 • Drama • Thriller • Adventure
Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by solving San Francisco's late…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Do the Right Thing
1989 • Drama
Sal 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.…
Why matched: genres Drama
One Eight Seven
1997 • Drama • Thriller
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Eve's Bayou
1997 • Drama
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
Why matched: genres Drama
Major Payne
1995 • Adventure • Comedy • Family
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine,…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Malcolm X
1992 • Drama • History
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and th…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Girl 6
1996 • Drama • Comedy
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Shaggy Dog
2006 • Comedy • Family
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
Why matched: genres Comedy, Family
School Daze
1988 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Clockers
1995 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
xXx
2002 • Drama • Thriller • Adventure
Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His missio…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
A Time to Kill
1996 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Changing Lanes
2002 • Drama • Thriller
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this d…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller