The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (
2024) | IMDb:
0
Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the joys and sorrows of life, marriage and children, happiness and blues, love and loss, new shades of heartbreak and illness threaten to stir up the past when the trio sees their bond put to the test as they face their most challenging times yet.
Starring:
Uzo Aduba
,
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
,
Sanaa Lathan
,
Mekhi Phifer
,
Russell Hornsby
,
Kyanna Simone Simpson
Directed by:
Tina Mabry
Harriet (
2019) | IMDb:
6.7
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Starring:
Cynthia Erivo
,
Leslie Odom Jr.
,
Joe Alwyn
,
Clarke Peters
,
Vanessa Bell Calloway
,
Omar J. Dorsey
Black Nativity (
2013) | IMDb:
4.8
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker
,
Angela Bassett
,
Jennifer Hudson
,
Tyrese Gibson
,
Jacob Latimore
,
Mary J. Blige
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (
2009) | IMDb:
6.6
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Eve's Bayou (
1997) | IMDb:
7.2
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
Starring:
Jurnee Smollett
,
Meagan Good
,
Samuel L. Jackson
,
Lynn Whitfield
,
Debbi Morgan
,
Jake Smollett
Gridlock'd (
1997) | IMDb:
6.9
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
Starring:
Tupac Shakur
,
Tim Roth
,
Thandiwe Newton
,
Charles Fleischer
,
Howard Hesseman
,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Directed by:
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Romeo + Juliet (
1996) | IMDb:
6.7
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Claire Danes
,
Jesse Bradford
,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
,
Brian Dennehy
,
John Leguizamo
Heaven's Prisoners (
1996) | IMDb:
5.8
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.
Starring:
Alec Baldwin
,
Kelly Lynch
,
Eric Roberts
,
Teri Hatcher
,
Mary Stuart Masterson
,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Directed by:
Phil Joanou
Broken Arrow (
1996) | IMDb:
6.1
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Starring:
James Stewart
,
John Travolta
,
Christian Slater
,
Jeff Chandler
,
Samantha Mathis
,
Delroy Lindo
Clear and Present Danger (
1994) | IMDb:
6.9
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Starring:
Harrison Ford
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Anne Archer
,
Joaquim de Almeida
,
Henry Czerny
,
Harris Yulin
Crooklyn (
1994) | IMDb:
7
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Starring:
Alfre Woodard
,
Delroy Lindo
,
David Patrick Kelly
,
Zelda Harris
,
Carlton Williams
,
Sharif Rashed
Sugar Hill (
1994) | IMDb:
5.8
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Starring:
Wesley Snipes
,
Michael Wright
,
Theresa Randle
,
Donald Faison
,
O.L. Duke
,
Leslie Uggams
Falling Down (
1993) | IMDb:
7.6
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Robert Duvall
,
Barbara Hershey
,
Rachel Ticotin
,
Tuesday Weld
,
Frederic Forrest
Passion Fish (
1992) | IMDb:
7.3
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Starring:
Mary McDonnell
,
Alfre Woodard
,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
,
David Strathairn
,
Leo Burmester
,
Nora Dunn
One Good Cop (
1991) | IMDb:
5.8
When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of the case, Lewis finds his life – and that of his newfound family – on the line. That's when the guilty crime-lord comes face to face with one man's rage, one man's fury, one man's justice.
Starring:
Michael Keaton
,
Rene Russo
,
Anthony LaPaglia
,
Kevin Conway
,
Rachel Ticotin
,
Tony Plana
Directed by:
Heywood Gould