Films and programs like Antwone Fisher

Girl, Interrupted

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she st...

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Telling Lies in America

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 6.2

A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment world.

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Blue Crush

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competit...

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Paid in Full

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7

Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds...

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25th Hour

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.6

In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging ou...

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Tart

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 4.7

A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

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Drumline

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 5.9

A talented street drummer from Harlem enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it tak...

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12 Years a Slave

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.1

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not on...

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