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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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Good Hair
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles imp...
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He Got Game
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
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Life
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investig...
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Time
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love...
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Four Brothers
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.
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Bad Boys
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under t...
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White Men Can't Jump
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
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