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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
Cop & ½
1993 • Comedy • Family • Action
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Family
Buck and the Preacher
1972 • Drama • Adventure • Comedy
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005 • Drama • Romance • TV Movie
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Base…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Cat People
1982 • Thriller • Horror
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo cura…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Horror
Just Cause
1995 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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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
Edge of the City
1957 • Drama • Romance • Crime
A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Incident
1967 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Tall Target
1951 • Thriller • Mystery • History
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Baby Geniuses
1999 • Science Fiction • Comedy • Family
BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most brilliant scientists, are tirele…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
A Thousand Words
2012 • Drama • Comedy • Fantasy
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Si…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
A Simple Wish
1997 • Adventure • Comedy • Family
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading rol…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
The Stand
1994 • Drama • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
American Gangster
2007 • Drama • Crime
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning f…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
No Way Out
1950 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller