Brooklyn's Finest (
2010) | IMDb:
6.7
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
Starring:
Richard Gere
,
Don Cheadle
,
Ethan Hawke
,
Wesley Snipes
,
Vincent D'Onofrio
,
Ellen Barkin
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
Bamboozled (
2000) | IMDb:
6.6
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
Starring:
Damon Wayans
,
Savion Glover
,
Jada Pinkett Smith
,
Tommy Davidson
,
Michael Rapaport
,
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Bulworth (
1998) | IMDb:
6.8
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Starring:
Kimberly Deauna Adams
,
Vinny Argiro
,
Sean Astin
,
Kirk Baltz
,
Ernie Lee Banks
,
Amiri Baraka
He Got Game (
1998) | IMDb:
6.9
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Ray Allen
,
Rosario Dawson
,
Milla Jovovich
,
Hill Harper
,
Ned Beatty
Directed by:
Spike Lee
Set It Off (
1996) | IMDb:
6.9
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.
Starring:
Jada Pinkett Smith
,
Queen Latifah
,
Vivica A. Fox
,
Kimberly Elise
,
Blair Underwood
,
John C. McGinley
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
Girl 6 (
1996) | IMDb:
5.3
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Directed by:
Spike Lee
Clockers (
1995) | IMDb:
6.9
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Starring:
Harvey Keitel
,
John Turturro
,
Delroy Lindo
,
Mekhi Phifer
,
Isaiah Washington
,
Keith David