The Players Club (
1998) | IMDb:
5.8
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.
Starring:
LisaRaye McCoy
,
Bernie Mac
,
Jamie Foxx
,
Ice Cube
,
Terrence Howard
,
Michael Clarke Duncan
Directed by:
Ice Cube
Produced by:
Ice Cube
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
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (
1996) | IMDb:
6.5
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
Starring:
Shawn Wayans
,
Marlon Wayans
,
Tracey Cherelle Jones
,
Chris Spencer
,
Vivica A. Fox
,
Rappin' Granny
Directed by:
Paris Barclay
Tales from the Hood (
1995) | IMDb:
6.5
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
Starring:
Clarence Williams III
,
Joe Torry
,
De'Aundre Bonds
,
Samuel Monroe Jr.
,
Wings Hauser
,
Tom Wright
Menace II Society (
1993) | IMDb:
7.5
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Starring:
Tyrin Turner
,
Larenz Tate
,
Glenn Plummer
,
Jada Pinkett Smith
,
Samuel L. Jackson
,
June Kyoto Lu