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Dark Girls 2011 Documentary exploring the deep seated biases and attitudes about skin color particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture

Prince Among Slaves 2007 In 1788 the slave ship Africa, set sail from West Africa and headed for America with its berth laden with a profitable but highly perishable cargo hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains Six months later the survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi One of them

Street of No Return (1989) A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, reclaims his forgotten past after viewing a music video and seeks revenge against the mobster who maimed him.

The Cemetery Club (1993) This comedy filled with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and Lucille, whose husbands die one after another in just a few years. Even though the three friends, all in their 50's, react quite differently on their husbands deaths they become even closer than w

Yellow (2006) Family: a necessary burden. Amaryllis Campos is young and beautiful, a classically trained dancer delivering pizzas in Puerto Rico, living with her parents and her drug-selling chump of a boyfriend, her dream deferred. When family tragedy and betrayal hit in the same week, she goes to

A Fuller Life (2013) Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs.

Cover (2007) When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husb

Created Equal (2017) A cocky, up-and-coming attorney, begrudgingly takes on a case to sue the Archdiocese of New Orleans for sex discrimination; after a woman, who's desperate to become a priest, solicits his help.

The sisters come back to Delores'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...

A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on ...

A Rage in Harlem (1991) A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.

Not Easily Broken (2009) After years of disagreeing on what true happiness, success, and love really are, Dave and Clarice Johnson have finally reached a breaking point in their marriage. When Clarice is hurt in a car accident, the obvious truth that more than just her injuries need immediate atten

The words Black Power bring back memories of names like Stokely Carmichael, H Rap Brown, and Eldridge Cleaver, but in Bogalusa, LA a group of harassed Afro Americans had decided theyd had enough and took up arms to defend themselves and force the white power structure to listen to them This took pla

Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.