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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
Escape from Alcatraz
1979 • Drama • Thriller
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Station Agent
2003 • Drama • Comedy
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own p…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Some Kind of Hero
1982 • Drama • Comedy
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Vanishing Point
1997 • Thriller • Adventure • TV Movie
When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger, attempts to elude police wh…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
The Super
1991 • Comedy
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he…
Why matched: genres Comedy
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
Friday Foster
1975 • Thriller • Action
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
Nuts
1987 • Drama
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Anderson Tapes
1971 • Thriller • Crime • Action
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn'…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Hoodlum
1997 • Drama • Crime
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'B…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Rosewood
1997 • Drama • Thriller • History
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Breaks
1999 • Comedy
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Born to Win
1971 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Midnight Cowboy
1969 • Drama
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Five Heartbeats
1991 • Music • Drama
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves,…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama