BlacKkKlansman (
2018) | IMDb:
7.5
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Starring:
John David Washington
,
Adam Driver
,
Topher Grace
,
Laura Harrier
,
Alec Baldwin
,
Jasper Pääkkönen
Selma (
2014) | IMDb:
7.5
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Directed by:
Ava DuVernay
Kansas City (
1996) | IMDb:
6.3
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
Starring:
Jennifer Jason Leigh
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Harry Belafonte
,
Michael Murphy
,
Dermot Mulroney
,
Steve Buscemi
Directed by:
Robert Altman
White Man's Burden (
1995) | IMDb:
5.3
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.
Starring:
John Travolta
,
Harry Belafonte
,
Kelly Lynch
,
Margaret Avery
,
Tom Bower
,
Andrew Lawrence
Directed by:
Desmond Nakano
Prêt-à-Porter (
1994) | IMDb:
5.2
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Starring:
Marcello Mastroianni
,
Sophia Loren
,
Jean-Pierre Cassel
,
Kim Basinger
,
Chiara Mastroianni
,
Stephen Rea
Directed by:
Robert Altman
The Player (
1992) | IMDb:
7.5
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Uptown Saturday Night (
1974) | IMDb:
6.6
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Starring:
Sidney Poitier
,
Bill Cosby
,
Harry Belafonte
,
Flip Wilson
,
Richard Pryor
,
Calvin Lockhart
Directed by:
Sidney Poitier
Island in the Sun (
1957) | IMDb:
6.1
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
Starring:
James Mason
,
Joan Fontaine
,
Dorothy Dandridge
,
Joan Collins
,
Michael Rennie
,
Harry Belafonte