Black and White (
1999) | IMDb:
5
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Scott Caan
,
Stacy Edwards
,
Allan Houston
,
Gaby Hoffmann
,
Jared Leto
Smoke (
1995) | IMDb:
7.4
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Starring:
Harvey Keitel
,
William Hurt
,
Stockard Channing
,
Harold Perrineau
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Giancarlo Esposito