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New Black Realism
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Dead Presidents
On the streets, they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war, only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist--a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!"--Container.
Menace II Society
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Crooklyn
Director Spike Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life in a crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nicknamed "Crooklyn" by the Carmichaels, who experience one very special summer in their hometown under difficult but often wonderful circumstances.
Get on the Bus
Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. They board the bus as strangers but emerge three days and thousands of miles later as brothers.
Jungle Fever
A black architect begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors.
Mo' Better Blues
Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Red Hook Summer
An Atlanta adolescent experiences a new side of life while spending the summer in Brooklyn with his grandfather, a fire-and-brimstone preacher who's determined to save his soul.
She's Gotta Have It
Statuesque and charismatic Nola Darling is trying to figure out what she wants in life. She has a good job as a commercial artist and designer, a spacious Brooklyn apartment, and three boyfriends: genteel professional Jamie Overstreet, vain male model Greer Childs, and livewire bike messenger Mars Blackmon.
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Baby Boy
Streetwise and jobless, Jody has not only fathered two children by two different women but he still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to find direction in his life, but he's about to be forced, kicking and screaming, into the real world.
Boyz n the Hood
For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
Higher Learning
First-term college freshmen get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality.
Poetic Justice
A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland find themselves reluctantly attracted to each other, when they are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind.
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Daughters of the Dust
Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.
Drylongso
Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak, and the everyday threat of violence.
Eve's Bayou
Eve's family seems perfect until she catches her doctor father more than just examining one of his patients and Eve's tormented by the family secrets that come out.
Friday
Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.
House Party
Kid, a typical teenager, has to deal with punks, an over-protective father, and beautiful best friends who want him to choose between them.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
A heartwarming comedy about a woman who resists falling in love with a 20-year-old man, until her best friend urges her to rediscover herself and get in the groove.
Love & Basketball
Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, a coming-of-age romance that shows the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see them as equal.
New Jack City
Gangster film, set in New York City during the 1980s, about a young, rich, smart drug baron who thinks he's untouchable, and the tough, street-smart cops determined to bring him down.
Six Degrees of Separation
When Manhattan art dealers take a young man into their home believing him to be a friend of their children and Sidney Poitier's son, he leaves them with a lasting impression.
Waiting to Exhale
The story of four African-American women who journey through a modern labyrinth of husbands and lovers, jobs and makeovers.
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