The Butler (
2013) | IMDb:
7.2
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker
,
Oprah Winfrey
,
Mariah Carey
,
John Cusack
,
Jane Fonda
,
Cuba Gooding Jr.
American Gangster (
2007) | IMDb:
7.8
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
Starring:
Russell Crowe
,
Denzel Washington
,
Chiwetel Ejiofor
,
Cuba Gooding Jr.
,
Josh Brolin
,
Ted Levine
Impostor (
2001) | IMDb:
6.1
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Starring:
Gary Sinise
,
Madeleine Stowe
,
Mekhi Phifer
,
Vincent D'Onofrio
,
Tony Shalhoub
,
Tim Guinee
Directed by:
Gary Fleder
Reindeer Games (
2000) | IMDb:
5.8
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
Starring:
Ben Affleck
,
Charlize Theron
,
Gary Sinise
,
Dennis Farina
,
Clarence Williams III
,
Danny Trejo
The General's Daughter (
1999) | IMDb:
6.4
When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
Starring:
John Travolta
,
Madeleine Stowe
,
James Cromwell
,
Timothy Hutton
,
Leslie Stefanson
,
Daniel von Bargen
Life (
1999) | IMDb:
6.8
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy
,
Martin Lawrence
,
Obba Babatundé
,
Nick Cassavetes
,
Bernie Mac
,
Michael Taliferro
Directed by:
Ted Demme
Hoodlum (
1997) | IMDb:
6.3
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne
,
Tim Roth
,
Vanessa Williams
,
Andy García
,
Cicely Tyson
,
Chi McBride