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A Fall from Grace

A Fall from Grace

A Fall from Grace
IMDb: 5.9
120

When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.

Alex Cross

Alex Cross

Alex Cross
IMDb: 5.2
101

Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over…

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
IMDb: 5.3
101

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house’s only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret…

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Why Did I Get Married Too?
IMDb: 4.7
121

Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Relative Stranger

Relative Stranger

Relative Stranger
IMDb: 6.5
89

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Madea’s Family Reunion

Madea’s Family Reunion

Madea’s Family Reunion
IMDb: 5.3
107

Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles – Vanessa moves into Madea’s house with her 2 young children and Lisa…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
IMDb: 5.7
117

Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Idlewild

Idlewild

Idlewild
IMDb: 6.2
121

At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, pianist Percival lives life by the rules, while Rooster, the club’s flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But all changes when greed,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie
IMDb: 6.4
106

A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
The Rosa Parks Story

The Rosa Parks Story

The Rosa Parks Story
IMDb: 7.2
97

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Jewel

Jewel

Jewel
IMDb: 6.4
120

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down’s syndrome.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying
IMDb: 6.7
101

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog,…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered
IMDb: 7.2
104

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

Hoodlum
IMDb: 6.3
130

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth ‘Bumpy’ Johnson…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes
IMDb: 7.7
130

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Bustin’ Loose

Bustin’ Loose

Bustin’ Loose
IMDb: 6
94

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The River Niger

The River Niger

The River Niger
IMDb: 6
105

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But…

Genre: Drama
The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird
IMDb: 5.4
95

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey,…

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
IMDb: 7.9
112

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Sounder

Sounder

Sounder
IMDb: 7.5
105

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Genre: Drama
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
IMDb: 7.6
123

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile,…

Genre: Drama
A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam
IMDb: 6.6
99

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Genre: Drama, Music