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From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfre Woodard

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Denzel Washington

A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josh Brolin

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John David Washington

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teyonah Parris

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Harvey Keitel

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danny Aiello

In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward Norton

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wesley Snipes

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sanaa Lathan

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Fishburne

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Theresa Randle

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried...

Genre: War

Cast: Delroy Lindo

During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Leguizamo

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Luke

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades...

Genre: Music

Cast: Aretha Franklin

TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Damon Wayans

Based on a true story, Bob Zellner, grandson of a Klansman, comes of age in the Deep South and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement.

Genre: History

Cast: Lucas Till