Coach Carter (
2005) | IMDb:
7.3
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson
,
Rob Brown
,
Robert Ri'chard
,
Rick Gonzalez
,
Nana Gbewonyo
,
Antwon Tanner
Directed by:
Thomas Carter
Woman Thou Art Loosed (
2004) | IMDb:
6.6
An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
Starring:
Kimberly Elise
,
Loretta Devine
,
Debbi Morgan
,
Michael Boatman
,
Clifton Powell
,
Louisa Abernathy
Directed by:
Michael Schultz
Produced by:
Love & Basketball (
2000) | IMDb:
7.2
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
The Hurricane (
1999) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Vicellous Shannon
,
Deborah Kara Unger
,
Liev Schreiber
,
John Hannah
,
Dan Hedaya
She's All That (
1999) | IMDb:
5.9
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees to a seemingly impossible challenge. He has six weeks to gain the trust of nerdy outcast Laney Boggs -- and help her to become the school's next prom queen.
Starring:
Freddie Prinze Jr.
,
Rachael Leigh Cook
,
Paul Walker
,
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
,
Kevin Pollak
,
Anna Paquin
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