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• In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
  A black Philadelphia detective becomes involved in a murder case in a small, bigoted southern town, much to ...
  Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Rod Steiger,  Warren Oates
  Directed by: Norman Jewison
  (73%)

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• Juice (1992)
  In the Ghetto's of Harlem you don't buy respect... you earn it....
  Starring: Omar Epps,  Tupac Shakur,  Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins
  Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
  (73%)

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• The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
  An action-filled dramatization of the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first squadron of black American ...
  Starring: Laurence Fishburne,  Allen Payne,  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  Directed by: Robert Markowitz
  (72%)

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• Love And Basketball (2000)
  LOVE AND BASKETBALL is the powerful story of two next-door neighbors in Los Angeles who grow up loving ...
  Starring: Sanaa Lathan,  Omar Epps,  Alfre Woodard
  Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
  (71%)

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• Boyz 'N The Hood (2 discs) (1991)
  John Singleton emerged from USC film school with his passionate script already written, and at age 23 he made ...
  Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr.,  Ice Cube,  Morris Chestnut
  Directed by: John Singleton
  (71%)

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• Menace II Society (1993)
  Vivid documentary-like anecdotes focusing on a homeboy who is a sociopathic killer and another who tells the ...
  Starring: Tyrin Turner,  Larenze Tate,  Vonte Sweet
  Directed by: Allen Hughes,  Albert Hughes
  (71%)

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• Malcolm X (1992)
  Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-...
  Starring: Denzel Washington,  Angela Bassett,  Albert Hall
  Directed by: Spike Lee
  (70%)

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• Notorious (2009)
  The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn ...
  Starring: Jamal Woolard,  Derek Luke,  Angela Bassett
  Directed by: George Tillman Jr.,  George Tillman Jr
  (69%)

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• Do The Right Thing (1989)
  A local black community is unhappy that their community is effectively being run by whites. As the heat rises ...
  Starring: Danny Aiello,  Giancarlo Esposito,  Spike Lee
  Directed by: Spike Lee
  (69%)

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• Set It Off (1996)
  After a lifetime of being exploited by unscrupulous employers, pushed around by sleazy boyfriends, persecuted ...
  Starring: Jada Pinkett,  Queen Latifah,  Vivica A. Fox
  Directed by: F. Gary Gray
  (68%)

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• Notorious - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
  The dramatic retelling of the life, remarkable rise, and violent fall of rapper Christopher Wallace (aka the ...
  Starring: Jamal Woolard,  Angela Bassett,  Derek Luke
  Directed by: George Tillman Jr,  George Tillman Jr.
  (67%)

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• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
  Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but ...
  Starring: Spike Lee,  Denzel Washington,  Wesley Snipes
  Directed by: Spike Lee
  (67%)

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• Crooklyn (1994)
  From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-...
  Starring: Alfre Woodard,  Delroy Lindo
  Directed by: Spike Lee
  (67%)

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• Stomp The Yard (2007)
  After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to ...
  Starring: Meagan Good,  Laz Alonso,  Harry J. Lennix
  Directed by: Sylvain White
  (66%)

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• Not Easily Broken (2009)
  Faith, family ties, and marital fidelity are all put to the test in NOT EASILY BROKEN, a thoughtful African-...
  Starring: Maeve Quinlan,  Cannon Jay,  Kevin Hart
  Directed by: Bill Duke
  (64%)

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• He Got Game (1998)
  A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence....
  Starring: Denzel Washington,  Ray Allen,  Milla Jovovich
  Directed by: Spike Lee
  (63%)

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• New Jack City (2 discs) (1991)
  Drug baron Nino Brown and his gang hit the streets with the highly addictive drug, crack. Taking over a town ...
  Starring: Wesley Snipes,  Ice-T,  Judd Nelson
  Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
  (63%)

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• Baby Boy (2001)
  Director John Singleton (BOYZ IN THE HOOD, SHAFT) revisits to South Central L.A. with BABY BOY. Former Calvin ...
  Starring: Taraji P. Henson,  Tyrese Gibson,  Omar Gooding
  Directed by: John Singleton
  (62%)

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• They Call Me Mr Tibbs! (1970)
  This sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT finds Mr. Tibbs involved in the investigation of a San Francisco ...
  Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Martin Landau,  Juano Hernandez
  Directed by: Gordon Douglas
  (62%)

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• Waist Deep (2006)
  In the urban action thriller Waist Deep, director Vondie Curtis Hall (Redemption) takes audiences on a ride ...
  Starring: Tyrese Gibson,  Paul Terrel Clayton,  Meagan Good
  Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall
  (61%)

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• Disappearing Acts (2000)
  Gina Prince-Bythewood's DISAPPEARING ACTS, based on the novel by Terry McMillan, is a mature look at ...
  Starring: Sanaa Lathan,  Wesley Snipes
  Directed by: Gina Prince
  (61%)

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• Shottas (2002)
  An unapologetic, raw urban drama about two friends raised in the dangerous streets of Kingston who take on ...
  Starring: Ky-Mani Marley,  Ky-mani Marley,  Spragga Benz
  Directed by: Cess Silvera
  (61%)

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• Poetic Justice (1993)
  Pop princess Janet Jackson plays Justice, a hairdresser and poet living in South Central Los Angeles, in the ...
  Starring: Janet Jackson,  Tupac Shakur,  Regina King
  Directed by: John Singleton
  (61%)

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• Super Fly (1972)
  Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realise that his life will soon end with either prison or his ...
  Starring: Ron O'Neal,  Carl Lee,  Julius Harris
  Directed by: Gordon Parks
  (60%)

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• Devil In A Blue Dress (1995)
  The year is 1948, the place is Los Angeles, and Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is a black man who ...
  Starring: Denzel Washington,  Tom Sizemore,  Jennifer Beals
  Directed by: Carl Franklyn
  (60%)

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• Waiting To Exhale (1995)
  The adaptation of Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, about four middle-class, African-American friends, and ...
  Starring: Whitney Houston,  Angela Bassett,  Loretta Devine
  Directed by: Forest Whitaker
  (60%)

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• Beloved (1998)
  Jonathan Demme directs this mysterious and potent drama based on Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ...
  Starring: Oprah Winfrey,  Danny Glover,  Thandie Newton
  Directed by: Jonathan Demme
  (58%)

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• Hoodlum (1997)
  Bill Duke's HOODLUM, with its rich visuals, brutal violence, and moral probing, pays homage to THE GODFATHER ...
  Starring: Laurence Fishburne,  Tim Roth,  Andy Garcia
  Directed by: Bill Duke
  (57%)

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• George Washington (2000)
  David Gordon Green makes a stunning directorial debut with GEORGE WASHINGTON, a highly poetic drama that ...
  Starring: Curtis Cotton III,  Candace Evanofski,  Rachael Handy
  Directed by: David Gordon Green
  (55%)

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• The Inkwell (1994)
  A summer filled with hot music, good friends and cute girls on a ritzy resort island in 1976 becomes paradise ...
  Starring: Larenze Tate,  Joe Morton,  Suzanne Douglas
  Directed by: Matty Rich
  (54%)