Hustle & Flow (
2005) | IMDb:
7.3
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Starring:
Terrence Howard
,
Anthony Anderson
,
Taryn Manning
,
Taraji P. Henson
,
DJ Qualls
,
Ludacris
Ray (
2004) | IMDb:
7.7
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
Starring:
Jamie Foxx
,
Kerry Washington
,
Regina King
,
Harry Lennix
,
Clifton Powell
,
Bokeem Woodbine
She Hate Me (
2004) | IMDb:
5.3
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Starring:
Anthony Mackie
,
Kerry Washington
,
Ellen Barkin
,
Monica Bellucci
,
Jim Brown
,
Ossie Davis
My Baby's Daddy (
2004) | IMDb:
4.5
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Starring:
Eddie Griffin
,
Anthony Anderson
,
Michael Imperioli
,
Method Man
,
Paula Jai Parker
,
Bai Ling
Directed by:
Cheryl Dunye
Phone Booth (
2003) | IMDb:
7.1
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Starring:
Colin Farrell
,
Kiefer Sutherland
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Radha Mitchell
,
Katie Holmes
,
Paula Jai Parker
High Crimes (
2002) | IMDb:
6.4
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Woo (
1998) | IMDb:
4.2
Woo is a woman in control of her world. She is smart, self-confident, sophisticated and snarky. And she doesn't have any trouble attracting members of the opposite sex. But for some reason no one ever sticks around. Woo meets Tim, a paralegal who is her complete opposite. They shouldn't click. However, Woo and Tim begin to bond when a series of weird and stressful calamities hits them while they are on their first date.
Starring:
Jada Pinkett Smith
,
Tommy Davidson
,
Duane Martin
,
Michael Ralph
,
Darrel Heath
,
Dave Chappelle
Directed by:
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Get on the Bus (
1996) | IMDb:
6.9
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Starring:
Ossie Davis
,
Charles S. Dutton
,
Andre Braugher
,
Richard Belzer
,
De'Aundre Bonds
,
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Directed by:
Spike Lee
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (
1996) | IMDb:
6.5
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
Starring:
Shawn Wayans
,
Marlon Wayans
,
Tracey Cherelle Jones
,
Chris Spencer
,
Vivica A. Fox
,
Rappin' Granny
Directed by:
Paris Barclay
Tales from the Hood (
1995) | IMDb:
6.5
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
Starring:
Clarence Williams III
,
Joe Torry
,
De'Aundre Bonds
,
Samuel Monroe Jr.
,
Wings Hauser
,
Tom Wright
Friday (
1995) | IMDb:
7.2
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Starring:
Ice Cube
,
Chris Tucker
,
Nia Long
,
Tommy Lister Jr.
,
John Witherspoon
,
Anna Maria Horsford