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The Cool World
1964 • Drama • Crime
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "boppi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Def by Temptation
1990 • Thriller • Romance • Horror
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Romance
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981 • Drama • Crime • Action
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, whi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Third Miracle
1999 • Drama
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
Why matched: genres Drama
Too Scared to Scream
1984 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
See You Yesterday
2019 • Drama • Science Fiction • Adventure
As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Hope Springs
2012 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Night of the Juggler
1980 • Thriller • Crime • Action
When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts them through New York's seamy…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Mona Lisa Smile
2003 • Drama • Romance • History
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of soci…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Juice
1992 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the gr…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Rob Peace
2024 • Drama • History
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Devil's Advocate
1997 • Drama • Mystery • Horror
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Being Flynn
2012 • Drama
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of…
Why matched: genres 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
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
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 • Drama • Comedy
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance o…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
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
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