Dope (
2015) | IMDb:
7.2
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Starring:
Shameik Moore
,
Zoë Kravitz
,
A$AP Rocky
,
Kiersey Clemons
,
Tony Revolori
,
Blake Anderson
Directed by:
Rick Famuyiwa
Our Family Wedding (
2010) | IMDb:
5
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker
,
America Ferrera
,
Carlos Mencia
,
Regina King
,
Lance Gross
,
Diana Maria Riva
Brown Sugar (
2002) | IMDb:
6.5
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.
The Wood (
1999) | IMDb:
7
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
Starring:
Omar Epps
,
Richard T. Jones
,
Taye Diggs
,
Sanaa Lathan
,
LisaRaye McCoy
,
De'Aundre Bonds
Directed by:
Rick Famuyiwa