Movies: Black people

  • 2005
    Coach Carter

    Coach Carter (2005)

    Coach Carter

    7.52005HD

    Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results....

    Coach Carter
  • 1993
    A Bronx Tale

    A Bronx Tale (1993)

    A Bronx Tale

    7.81993HD

    Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - fo...

    A Bronx Tale
  • 2007
    Freedom Writers

    Freedom Writers (2007)

    Freedom Writers

    7.92007HD

    A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school....

    Freedom Writers
  • 1991
    Boyz n the Hood

    Boyz n the Hood (1991)

    Boyz n the Hood

    7.61991HD

    In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag th...

    Boyz n the Hood
  • 1962
    To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    7.91962HD

    Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer...

    To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 2004
    Ray

    Ray (2004)

    Ray

    7.42004HD

    Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern m...

    Ray
  • 1985
    The Color Purple

    The Color Purple (1985)

    The Color Purple

    7.81985HD

    An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go f...

    The Color Purple
  • 2001
    Black Knight

    Black Knight (2001)

    Black Knight

    5.42001HD

    Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in the moat, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England....

    Black Knight
  • 1967
    In the Heat of the Night

    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

    In the Heat of the Night

    7.61967HD

    African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins for...

    In the Heat of the Night
  • 1979
    The Wanderers

    The Wanderers (1979)

    The Wanderers

    71979HD

    The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’...

    The Wanderers
  • 1992
    Juice

    Juice (1992)

    Juice

    7.21992HD

    Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ an...

    Juice
  • 1993
    Menace II Society

    Menace II Society (1993)

    Menace II Society

    7.51993HD

    A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life....

    Menace II Society
  • 1989
    Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Do the Right Thing

    7.71989HD

    Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborh...

    Do the Right Thing
  • 2004
    Soul Plane

    Soul Plane (2004)

    Soul Plane

    5.32004HD

    Following a ridiculously awful flight that leads to his pet's death, Nashawn Wade files a lawsuit against the airline, and wins a multimillion-dollar settlement. Determined to create a better flying experience, Nashawn starts his own airline, one tha...

    Soul Plane
  • 2003
    The Human Stain

    The Human Stain (2003)

    The Human Stain

    6.02003HD

    Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secre...

    The Human Stain
  • 1971
    Shaft

    Shaft (1971)

    Shaft

    6.41971HD

    Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter....

    Shaft
  • 2006
    Akeelah and the Bee

    Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

    Akeelah and the Bee

    7.02006HD

    Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother's objections, Akeelah enters various spelling contests, for which she is tutored by the forthright Dr. Larabee, her principal Mr. Welch, and the...

    Akeelah and the Bee
  • 2000
    Supernova

    Supernova (2000)

    Supernova

    4.92000HD

    Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose b...

    Supernova
  • 2002
    Hart's War

    Hart's War (2002)

    Hart's War

    6.32002HD

    When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything ...

    Hart's War
  • 1998
    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    5.91998HD

    Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhil...

    How Stella Got Her Groove Back