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Waiting to Exhale
( 1995 )
This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some of the problems and struggles the modern women face in today's world.
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Vampire in Brooklyn
( 1995 )
A ship sails into Brooklyn with all its crew dead. But something gets off and the killing continues on land. The vampire is looking for a specific woman - half-human, half-vampire. Rita's the cop detective investigating the many killings.
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The Tuskegee Airmen
( 1995 )
The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II
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Friday
( 1995 )
Two homies, Smokey and Craig, smoke a dope dealer's weed and try to figure a way to get the $200 they owe to the dealer by 10 p.m. that same night.
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Jason's Lyric
( 1994 )
The story of a young man, Jason (Allen Payne) who must confront his trauma-induced insecurity about love, as well as a sense of owed responsibility to his mother and troubled brother Joshua (Bokeem Woodbine). Jason, an assistant manager and sales clerk at an electronics store, falls in love with Lyric (Jada Pinkett Smith) and finds happiness, but his family history and mentally ill war veteran father, Maddog (Forest Whitaker) plague his life's plans before he can leave it all for a better life.
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Crooklyn
( 1994 )
Crooklyn is a movie starring Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, and David Patrick Kelly. Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in...
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
( 1993 )
The sisters come back to Deloris' (Whoopi Goldberg's) show to get her back as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of students in their parochial school, which is doomed for closure. One of the girls, Rita Watson (Lauryn Hill), who is the most talented of the bunch, is forbidden to sing by her mother, Florence Watson (Sheryl Lee Ralph), although the choir has made it to the state championship. A group of monks tries to stop them.
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Living Single
( 1993 )
Six black 20-somethings -- four women and two men -- share their lives and loves in a Brooklyn brownstone. A trio of women share one of the apartments, receiving frequent visits from a fourth pal; meanwhile, two men who've been friends for years share an apartment one floor up.
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Poetic Justice
( 1993 )
In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.
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What's Love Got to Do with It
( 1993 )
The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
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Made in America
( 1993 )
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
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The Bodyguard
( 1992 )
A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.
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Sister Act
( 1992 )
When a worldly singer witnesses a mob crime, the police hide her as a nun in a traditional convent where she has trouble fitting in.
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White Men Can't Jump
( 1992 )
Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.
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Juice
( 1992 )
Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".
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Strictly Business
( 1991 )
Two black friends, one of lighter skin complexion than the other, try to use each other to improve their social and professional positions.
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Boyz n the Hood
( 1991 )
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.
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TV Show:
Shaft
( 1973 )
In this short-lived series based on the popular movie and its sequels, John Shaft is the "black private dick" who would risk his life for his brother man.
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Shaft in Africa
( 1973 )
Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
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Shaft
( 1971 )
A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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