Released Date:
1995-09-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (12308 Reviews)
Director:
Carl FranklinWalter Mosley (book)
Carl Franklin (screenplay)
It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancèe of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme.
Released Date:
1996-11-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2277 Reviews)
Director:
Eriq La SalleA dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.
Released Date:
1997-02-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
140 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (5937 Reviews)
Director:
John SingletonVing Rhames stars as Mann, a drifter caught in Rosewood, a town filled with racial prejudice. He ends up aiding the surviving African-Americans escape the town, with the help of a humble store owner played by Jon Voight.
Released Date:
1997-04-25
Languages:
English, Spanish, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (54196 Reviews)
Director:
Mick JacksonJerome Armstrong (story)
Jerome Armstrong (screenplay)
Billy Ray (screenplay)
Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!
Released Date:
1999-05-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (854 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph SargentGenres:
DramaErnest J. Gaines (novel)
Ann Peacock (teleplay)
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince the schoolteacher to go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
Released Date:
2000-03-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (57032 Reviews)
Director:
Brian De PalmaLowell Cannon (story)
Jim Thomas (story)
John Thomas (story)
Jim Thomas (screenplay)
John Thomas (screenplay)
Graham Yost (screenplay)
In 2020, a crew of astronauts has been prepared for a two-year international mission in Mars. Jim McConnell, Woody Blake and his wife Terri Fisher, Luke Graham and Phil Ohlmyer are best friends and Jim lost his chance to land in Mars when his beloved wife Maggie McConnell died. The team of four astronauts land in Mars but a mysterious storm kills three of them and only Luke survives. A rescue team with Woody in command and Jim, Terri and Phil heads to the red planet and discovers that only Luke has survived. Their further investigation shows that the storm that killed the three other astronauts was artificial and created to protect a Face that lies on Mar. What might be the intriguing Face?
Released Date:
2000-12-22
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (81482 Reviews)
Director:
Brett RatnerA modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He's married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He's president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed's. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn't wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he's more confident in his new life and starts to see what he's been missing. Turns out money's good to have but that's not everything.
Released Date:
2001-06-08
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
USA, Australia
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (148103 Reviews)
Director:
Dominic SenaWhen the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.
Released Date:
2003-05-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (8051 Reviews)
Director:
Jordan MelamedGenres:
DramaLyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems. Lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human, and sometimes not so human level. The psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what's right with them, and what's wrong with the society that affects them.
Released Date:
2003-05-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (8049 Reviews)
Director:
Jordan MelamedGenres:
DramaLyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems. Lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human, and sometimes not so human level. The psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what's right with them, and what's wrong with the society that affects them.
Released Date:
2005-03-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (19017 Reviews)
Director:
Matthew Ryan HogeAfter stabbing an autistic boy, the sixteen year old troubled and pessimist Leland P. Fitzgerald is sent to a juvenile detention. His teacher and aspirant writer Pearl Madison gets close and tries to understand him, first with intention of writing a book, and later becoming his friend. Leland slowly discloses his sad vision of world.
Released Date:
2002-11-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
8 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (3796 Reviews)
Director:
Joe CarnahanJoe Carnahan
David Fincher (based on an original concept created by)
Joe Sweet (based on a story by)
The Driver finds himself in a dangerous, yet highly political situation; this time being pursued by a helicopter gunship while carrying a passenger with a suitcase... the contents of which will decide the fate of a nation.
Released Date:
2004-10-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Mexico
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(22788 Reviews)
Director:
Niels MuellerFact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.
Released Date:
2004-11-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (36636 Reviews)
Director:
Brett RatnerPaul Zbyszewski (story)
Paul Zbyszewski (screenplay)
Craig Rosenberg (screenplay)
After a successful last score, a master thief retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.
Released Date:
2005-05-06
Languages:
English, Persian, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (342456 Reviews)
Director:
Paul HaggisGenres:
DramaPaul Haggis (story)
Paul Haggis (screenplay)
Robert Moresco (screenplay)
Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people's lives intertwine as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city. Among the players are: the Caucasian district attorney, who uses race as a political card; his Caucasian wife, who, having recently been carjacked by two black men, believes that her stereotypical views of non-whites is justified and cannot be considered racism; the two black carjackers who use their race both to their advantage and as an excuse; partnered Caucasian police constables, one who is a racist and uses his authority to harass non-whites, and the other who hates his partner because of those racist views, but who may have the same underlying values in his subconscious; a black film director and his black wife, who believes her husband doesn't support their black background enough, especially in light of an incident with the racist white cop; partnered police detectives and sometimes lovers, one Hispanic female and the other black male, the latter who is dealing with a drugged out mother that feels he isn't concerned enough about taking care of family; an East Asian man who is run over but who is hiding some valuable cargo in the back of his van; a Persian store owner, who feels he isn't getting satisfaction from American society when his store is robbed time and time again; and a Hispanic locksmith, who just wants to keep his family, especially his young daughter, safe in a seemingly unsafe world.
Released Date:
2005-02-04
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
UK, USA, Italy, South Africa, Canada
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (239902 Reviews)
Director:
Terry GeorgeDuring the 1990s, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.
Released Date:
2006-05-28
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (62 Reviews)
Genres:
DocumentaryAdam Hochschild (book)
Pippa Scott
A documentary about the exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium.
Released Date:
2007-03-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (81023 Reviews)
Director:
Mike BinderGenres:
DramaAlan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss.
Released Date:
2009-01-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (15026 Reviews)
Director:
Thor FreudenthalJeff Lowell (screenplay)
Robert Schooley (screenplay)
Mark McCorkle (screenplay)
Lois Duncan (book)
Animals are strictly forbidden at Andi and her little brother Bruce's foster home. But for Friday, the adorable dog they secretly care for, they're ready to risk everything. They finally find him an ideal shelter, a huge abandoned hotel that Bruce transforms thanks to his engineering genius. In what has become an incredible paradise for dogs, Friday is soon joined by all kinds of furry friends, so many in fact that their barks alert the neighbors...and the local pound, who can't understand the disappearance of all the stray dogs. Andi and Bruce will have to call on all their friends and all their imagination to stop the hotel's secret from being discovered.
Released Date:
2007-08-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (8259 Reviews)
Director:
Kasi LemmonsMichael Genet (screenplay)
Rick Famuyiwa (screenplay)
Michael Genet (story)
The true life story of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo's brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey's voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey's "The truth just is" style --- on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.
Released Date:
2008-08-27
Languages:
English, Arabic
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(47631 Reviews)
Director:
Jeffrey NachmanoffJeffrey Nachmanoff (screenplay)
Steve Martin (story)
Jeffrey Nachmanoff (story)
Samir Horn is a former soldier, a devout Muslim, and U.S. citizen in the Middle East selling bomb detonators to Islamic radicals. He joins their cause as both the FBI and a rogue CIA agent track him. Horn escapes a Yemeni prison, goes underground in France where he proves his abilities, and is sent to the United States to choreograph a simultaneous and multiple terror attack. Will the intelligence agencies talk to each other, and can Horn be stopped?
Released Date:
2010-03-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
132 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (50613 Reviews)
Director:
Antoine FuquaIn Brooklyn, amid drug deals, violence, casual racism, poverty, housing projects, and corrupt cops, we follow three officers: Tango, African-American, working undercover, believing he's earned a promotion to a desk job but told he has to set up the bust of an ex-con who saved his life; Sal, who'll commit murder to get cash to buy a house big enough for his family; and, Eddie, the precinct's oldest beat cop, a week to go before retirement, assigned to mentor an earnest rookie. Can this end well for any of the three?
Released Date:
2010-05-07
Languages:
English, French, Russian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(460256 Reviews)
Director:
Jon FavreauJustin Theroux (screenplay)
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book)
Don Heck (Marvel comic book)
Larry Lieber (Marvel comic book)
Jack Kirby (Marvel comic book)
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts, and James "Rhodey" Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances - and confront powerful enemies.
Released Date:
2013-05-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, China
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (493617 Reviews)
Director:
Shane BlackDrew Pearce (screenplay)
Shane Black (screenplay)
Stan Lee (based on the Marvel comic book by)
Don Heck (based on the Marvel comic book by)
Larry Lieber (based on the Marvel comic book by)
Jack Kirby (based on the Marvel comic book by)
Warren Ellis (based on the "Extremis" mini-series written by)
Adi Granov (based on the "Extremis" mini-series illustrated by)
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
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