Captive State (
2019) | IMDb:
6
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
Starring:
John Goodman
,
Ashton Sanders
,
Jonathan Majors
,
Vera Farmiga
,
Kevin Dunn
,
Kevin J. O'Connor
Save the Last Dance (
2001) | IMDb:
6.2
After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.
Starring:
Julia Stiles
,
Sean Patrick Thomas
,
Kerry Washington
,
Fredro Starr
,
Terry Kinney
,
Bianca Lawson
The Shawshank Redemption (
1994) | IMDb:
9.3
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.