Shooting Stars (
2023) | IMDb:
6.5
The inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero, revealing how LeBron James and his childhood friends become the #1 high school team in the country, launching James's breathtaking career as a four-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and the NBA's all-time leading scorer.
Starring:
Brayden Cross
,
Mookie Cook
,
Caleb McLaughlin
,
Algee Smith
,
Dermot Mulroney
,
Wood Harris
Judas and the Black Messiah (
2021) | IMDb:
7.4
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Starring:
LaKeith Stanfield
,
Daniel Kaluuya
,
Dominique Fishback
,
Jesse Plemons
,
Ashton Sanders
,
Algee Smith
The Hate U Give (
2018) | IMDb:
7.5
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Detroit (
2017) | IMDb:
7.3
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Starring:
John Boyega
,
Will Poulter
,
Anthony Mackie
,
Algee Smith
,
Hannah Murray
,
Jason Mitchell
Barely Lethal (
2015) | IMDb:
5.4
A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.
Starring:
Hailee Steinfeld
,
Sophie Turner
,
Jessica Alba
,
Samuel L. Jackson
,
Dove Cameron
,
Thomas Mann
Earth to Echo (
2014) | IMDb:
5.7
After a construction project begins digging in their neighbourhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. The three embark on a secret adventure to crack the code and follow it to its source, and discover a mysterious being from another world who desperately needs their help. The journey that follows will change all their lives forever.