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Which Way Is Up?
1977 • Comedy
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads fo…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Brewster's Millions
1985 • Comedy
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and wi…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Sparkle
1976 • Music • Drama
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Cotton Club
1984 • Drama • Crime
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Fast Food Fast Women
2000 • Romance • Comedy
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old a…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Honey
2003 • Music • Drama • Romance
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Jungle Fever
1991 • Drama • Romance
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo r…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Gardens of Stone
1987 • Drama • History • War
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself,…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
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
Cuba
1979 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Honey 2
2011 • Music • Drama • Comedy
After a brush with the law, Maria has returned to her gritty Bronx roots to rebuild her life with nothing but a talent for street dance and a burning ambition to prove herself.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
She Hate Me
2004 • Drama • Comedy
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
'Round Midnight
1986 • Music • Drama
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Men of Honor
2000 • Drama
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy…
Why matched: genres Drama
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 • Documentary
Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.
Why matched: genres Documentary
ATL
2006 • Drama • Mystery • Comedy
As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollersk…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
He Got Game
1998 • Drama
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Why matched: genres Drama