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Red Hook Summer
2012 • Drama
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh…
Why matched: genres Drama
Get on the Bus
1996 • Drama • Adventure • History
Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among the attendees are an eclec…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015 • Drama • Romance • Horror
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a danger…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Bamboozled
2000 • Drama • Comedy
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
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
Set It Off
1996 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Bulworth
1998 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech o…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Ray
2004 • Music • Drama
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his ca…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
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
Lackawanna Blues
2005 • Music • Drama • TV Movie
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Brooklyn's Finest
2010 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three poli…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
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
Chi-Raq
2015 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime