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Oldboy (2013)![]() Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller Release: 2013 November, 11 An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement... IMDb: 5.8/10 (81 694) |
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Red Hook Summer (2012)![]() Genre: Drama Release: 2012 January, 22 A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn... IMDb: 5.3/10 (1 961) |
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Miracle at St. Anna (2008)![]() ![]() Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / War Release: 2008 September, 7 Christmas, 1983... IMDb: 6.1/10 (19 297) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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Jesus Children of America (2005)![]() Genre: Short / Drama Release: 2005 July, 1 A Brooklyn teen learns she was born HIV-positive... IMDb: 7.1/10 (274) |
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Good Fences (2003)![]() Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 2003 January, 23 Good Fences is about an upwardly mobile black family for whom the American dream becomes a nightmare... IMDb: 5.7/10 (912) |
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Love & Basketball (2000)![]() Genre: Drama / Romance / Sport Release: 2000 January, 26 In 1981 in L.A., Monica moves in next door to Quincy... IMDb: 7.2/10 (24 798) |
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The Best Man (1999)![]() Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 1999 September, 2 Harper's autobiographical novel is almost out, his girlfriend Robin desires commitment, and he's best man at the wedding of Lance, a pro athlete... IMDb: 6.7/10 (12 088) |
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He Got Game (1998)![]() Genre: Drama / Sport Release: 1998 April, 25 Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation... IMDb: 6.9/10 (52 166) |
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4 Little Girls (1997)![]() Genre: Documentary / History Release: 1997 July, 9 A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement... IMDb: 7.8/10 (3 640) |
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Tales from the Hood (1995)![]() Genre: Horror / Thriller Release: 1995 May, 24 Four short, moralistic horror vignettes (a la EC Comics) that deal with mostly black characters... IMDb: 6.5/10 (9 794) |
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Crooklyn (1994)![]() Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 1994 May, 9 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... IMDb: 7.0/10 (11 521) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)![]() Genre: Drama / Music / Romance Release: 1990 July, 23 Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons... IMDb: 6.7/10 (13 879) |
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Do the Right Thing (1989)![]() Genre: Drama Release: 1989 May, 19 This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday... IMDb: 8.0/10 (114 823) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |