From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

Basert på en fantastisk og sann historie. "Coach Carter" er inspirert av livet til den kontroversielle basketballtreneren Ken Carter, som ble utropt til både helt og skurk da han satte sitt ubeseirede lag på benken for å få den til å bruke mer tid på skolearbeidet - noe som gjorde ham til førstesidestoff over hele USA. Mens spillerne, foreldrene og lokalsamfunnet presser på for å få laget ut på banen igjen, må Carter overvinne sine motstandere og vise de unge mennene en fremtid som har mer å by på enn gjengtrøbbel, stoff, fengsel og til og med basketball.

Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.

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, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

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

Åtte år gamle Calogero blir adoptert av en lokal gangster etter at han har gjort bossen en tjeneste,noe hans bussjåfør far missliker.Første halvdel av filmen skildrer Bronx anno 1960, andre halvdel hopper vi til 1968 og 16 åringen rives fortsatt mellom familie og mafiaen.

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.’

Året er 1906 og stedet er en småby i sørstatene. Den knapt 14 år gamle Celie blir mor til to små. Ungenes far er hennes stefar, som i lang tid har misbrukt henne. Han tar fra henne barna og nekter å fortelle henne noe om deres skjebne. Når Celies stefar blir lei av henne, gir han henne bort til en like voldelig enkemann, og mishandlingen fortsetter. Celie tømmer sitt hjerte i brevform, først til Gud og så til sin fraværende søster, Nettie. Det er ikke før i 1921, når blues-sangerinnen Shug Avery kommer inn i livet hennes, at Celie begynner å skjønne at hun er verdt noe. Hun innser at hun har rett til et verdig liv, og at det finnes et hav av muligheter for å oppnå det.

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

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 and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

I midtsommerheten i Brooklyn kan alt skje. Italieneren Sal driver en pizza-restaurant i samarbeid med sine to sønner, pluss visergutten Mookie. Noen av de militante svarte guttene i nabolaget får ideen om at Sal bør henge bilder av prominente svarte personer ved siden av de han har hengende av sine italiensk-amerikanske idoler. Et slikt forslag fører straks til uro i nabolaget, og gateslaget som følger fører store konsekvenser med seg...

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 body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.

Faren ble drept i et narkooppgjør og moren døde av overdose. Deretter ble unggutten Caine Lawson plassert hos sine besteforeldre i Watts, LA, en av vår tids urbane og nådeløse ghettoer. I en alder av 18 år hadde den svarte, unge mannen sett mer av verdens skyggesider enn de fleste. Filmen tegner et rått bilde av svartes oppvekstvilkår i USA.

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 that caters to an African-American clientele. Going into business with a tricked-out plane piloted by the smooth Capt. Mack, the airline hits a snag when it has to deal with the family of Elvis Hunkee.

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 forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.

Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.

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.

This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

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 musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.