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Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict

A Muslim ex con forms a friendship with his parole officer

Four Los Angelenos, a mortician, an ex con, a suicidal ex priest, and a stripper, are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances

26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control

The weeks leading up to a young couples wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to rest

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this mans life, family, and American society

After a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction, a champion boxer fights to get custody of his daughter and revive his professional career

Denise Moore is robbed and her face is slashed as she is leaving a crack house At the police station she picks Jessie Williams mug shot and IDs him at a line up Jessie Williams says he didnt do it From that point on, everyone

A successful author and spiritual advisor takes on a troubled man as a client, completely unaware that the mans fixation on his mothers death will soon put his life in jeopardy

A gangsters girlfriend flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang are on her trail

With a first person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles

The daughter of the U S President heads off to college where she falls for a graduate student with a secret

A group of teens are bent on improving the run down conditions of their high school

The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re told from several different perspectives

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U S Armed Services radio station in Vietnam

Accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed, Bryan Mills goes on the run and brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name

The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his fathers former partner and a team of rogue cops

Policemen Ali Sokhela and Brian Epkeen investigate the brutal murder of a young white woman, apparently provoked by the availability of a new illegal drug and somehow connected to the disappearance of black street children

Based on Terry McMillans novel, this film follows four very different African American women and their relationships with men

Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives

Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial

MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their normal vision, yet literally right in front of their eyes Mysteries of the Unseen

A man seeks justice after his wife and two daughters are gunned down in a terrorist attack

The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie Parker

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this mans life, family, and American society

A Colonel working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to use military force to remove the elected President, who always opposed Pentagon budget increases, and to replace him with a much tamer Vice Presi

Three women are sent to intercept a major drug deal at a diner at 3 AM and get the money Simple save for Murphys law Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

An adaptation of Alex Haleys Roots Chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America

A street wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey

Al, a basketball coach at a New Orleans high school, finally has a winning team when Hurricane Katrina happens He tries to build a winning team anew after the hurricane

A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s A TV prequel to the 2007 film, American Gangster, which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas

An undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super intelligence and telekinesis

A veteran hit man, Dekker is ready to call it quits and leave the profession Dekkers final job, however, proves to be trickier than expected when the sadistic Zidzyck recruits the assassin to kill his wife

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed

A small time crook hides out in a seedy motel where shady characters recognise him and demand money to keep quiet