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Never Die Alone
2004 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A drug kingpin's rise and tragic fall is witnessed vicariously by a reporter who uses the criminal's diary as the basis for his new book.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
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
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
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
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
1995 • Thriller • Comedy • Horror
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy
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
Mo' Better Blues
1990 • Music • Drama
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the ai…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Surviving the Game
1994 • Drama • Thriller • Adventure
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Bulletproof
1996 • Crime • Comedy • Action
An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only prob…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Last Man Standing
2011 • Thriller • TV Movie • Action
Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is kidnapped. With no alternative, A…
Why matched: genres Thriller, TV Movie
The Brother from Another Planet
1984 • Science Fiction • Comedy
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 • Drama • War
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
School Daze
1988 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Eddie Murphy Raw
1987 • Comedy
Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Bones
2001 • Thriller • Crime • Horror
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to get revenge on those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
She's Gotta Have It
1986 • Romance • Comedy
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit s…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Futuresport
1999 • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Action
In the not too distant future, a new deadly sport is the only way to stop a war that will kill millions. Fix is the creator of the sport, but the spotlight has always been on Ra…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, TV Movie
Krush Groove
1985 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record a…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Enemy Territory
1987 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
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