Little (
2019) | IMDb:
5.5
Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.
Night School (
2018) | IMDb:
5.6
Teddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, Teddy soon finds himself dealing with a group of misfit students, his former high school nemesis and a feisty teacher who doesn't think he's too bright.
Starring:
Kevin Hart
,
Tiffany Haddish
,
Rob Riggle
,
Romany Malco
,
Taran Killam
,
Megalyn Echikunwoke
The Birth of a Nation (
2016) | IMDb:
6.5
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
Starring:
Nate Parker
,
Armie Hammer
,
Aja Naomi King
,
Jackie Earle Haley
,
Penelope Ann Miller
,
Gabrielle Union
Peeples (
2013) | IMDb:
5.4
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
Starring:
Craig Robinson
,
Kerry Washington
,
David Alan Grier
,
S. Epatha Merkerson
,
Tyler James Williams
,
Kali Hawk
Hustle & Flow (
2005) | IMDb:
7.3
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Starring:
Terrence Howard
,
Anthony Anderson
,
Taryn Manning
,
Taraji P. Henson
,
DJ Qualls
,
Ludacris
She Hate Me (
2004) | IMDb:
5.3
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Starring:
Anthony Mackie
,
Kerry Washington
,
Ellen Barkin
,
Monica Bellucci
,
Jim Brown
,
Ossie Davis
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
Crooklyn (
1994) | IMDb:
7
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Starring:
Alfre Woodard
,
Delroy Lindo
,
David Patrick Kelly
,
Zelda Harris
,
Carlton Williams
,
Sharif Rashed
Juice (
1992) | IMDb:
7
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
Starring:
Omar Epps
,
Tupac Shakur
,
Khalil Kain
,
Jermaine Hopkins
,
Cindy Herron
,
Samuel L. Jackson
Jungle Fever (
1991) | IMDb:
6.6
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Starring:
Wesley Snipes
,
Annabella Sciorra
,
Spike Lee
,
Ossie Davis
,
Ruby Dee
,
Samuel L. Jackson
New Jack City (
1991) | IMDb:
6.6
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Do the Right Thing (
1989) | IMDb:
8
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Krush Groove (
1985) | IMDb:
6.4
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.