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1) The minority
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Jake Jackson is the nicest, most honest person anyone could ever meet. So when he gets accused of stealing a co-worker's purse, and then bombarded with racial biases, he really has to struggle to maintain some sort of normal life. Just when he finds himself traveling toward a path of insanity he manages to capture a wanted serial killer, which causes his luck to change and he finally gets the respect he deserves.
2) Profiled
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Things go from bad to worse for four young black men hauled into a small-town jail for a monstrous crime against a pretty local young woman. However, it's extremely likely that this is an action in which the men may have had no involvement.
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Michael is a college student struggling to make ends meet. Michael and his brother, Chris, meet the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl. Michael's popularity threatens Adrian, the club's former star attraction who finds his popularity fading as the new kid starts to steal the spotlight.
6) Good
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Payton is a young Black man with a chance to marry into the upper echelons of Black society. First, he must abandon a secret, an unborn child with an ex-girlfriend. He is in desperate need of money and time away from his fiancé, who knows nothing about the baby. He finds a solution in wealthy and stubborn Gregory Devereaux, an elderly regular from his favorite late-night diner. Hired by Devereaux's estranged daughter as his caretaker, Payton quickly...
8) N-Secure
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"Wealthy businessman David Washington (Moore) wants to control every aspect of his life, including his beautiful girlfriend Robyn (Essence Atkins). As his domineering nature grows more violent, Robyn is pushed into the arms of her best friend's sexy fiancé (Rucker). Furious with Robyn's betrayal and haunted by his own insecurities, David sabotages his relationship with his naive new girlfriend (Boutte) and soon finds himself ensnared in a web of...
9) House party
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Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck, and about to lose the roofs over their heads and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a 'what the hell?' move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong...
10) The Mack
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It takes a street fighter to clean up the streets and Mack, a sharp, smooth talking hustler newly out of prison, and his pals, are up to the challenge.
12) A patch of blue
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A blind white woman falls in love with a black man, much to the consternation of her racist mother.
13) Tyrel
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Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn't know. As soon as they get there, it's clear that he's the only black guy, and it's going to be a weekend of heavy drinking. Although Tyler is welcomed, he can't help but feel uneasy in 'Whitesville.' The combination of all the testosterone and alcohol starts to get out of hand, and Tyler's precarious situation starts to feel like a nightmare....
14) Claudine
Series
Criterion collection volume 1052
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"While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine (Carroll) meets a charming garbage man, Roop (James Earl Jones). But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love"--Container
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Criterion collection volume 963
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Harry, a devilish charmer from the Deep South, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous...
18) The human stain
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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
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