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The Stand

The Stand

The Stand
IMDb: 6.1
359

When a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, the population of the world is decimated. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman, or a…

Just Cause

Just Cause

Just Cause
IMDb: 6.4
102

Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help…

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 7.9
120

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses
IMDb: 2.6
97

Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.5
132

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 relationship…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Cop and a Half

Cop and a Half

Cop and a Half
IMDb: 3.9
97

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…

Cat People

Cat People

Cat People
IMDb: 6.1
118

After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild…

1982

1982

1982
IMDb: 6.9
90

1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter…

Genre: Drama
The Incident

The Incident

The Incident
IMDb: 7.2
107

Two young hoodlums (including a young Martin Sheen) terrorize the passengers of a late night New York City subway train.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement

Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement

Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement
IMDb: 7.1
N/A

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Politics of Love

Politics of Love

Politics of Love
IMDb: 4.9
93

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Democratic counterpart: a beautiful Indian-American Obama campaign volunteer. Sparks fly, tempers…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
IMDb: 6.5
N/A

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black…

A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
IMDb: 8.3
75

This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society. The…

Genre: Documentary
Edge of the City

Edge of the City

Edge of the City
IMDb: 6.6
85

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.

Genre: Drama
Betty and Coretta

Betty and Coretta

Betty and Coretta
IMDb: 7.4
90

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

Genre: Drama