Bokeem Woodbine
Also Known As: 보킴 우드바인, بوکیم وودباین
Biography: Bokeem Woodbine (born April 13, 1973) is an American actor. In 1994, he portrayed Joshua, the main character's troubled brother, in Jason's Lyric. He won a Black Reel Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for his role as Kansas City mob enforcer Mike Milligan in the second season of Fargo. Woodbine also portrayed Daniel in season 2 of the WGN series Underground, Herman Schultz/Shocker in the film Spider-Man: Homecoming, and saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman in the Oscar-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bokeem Woodbine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 13, 1973
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Gender: Male
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Ray
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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Guardian Angel
Overview: After the tragic death of his wife, Ray, a veteran security specialist, must protect the daughter of a businessman who embezzled millions from a crime boss in Los Angeles. Uncovering much more than he bargained for, Ray takes matters into his own...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Hard Cash
Overview: Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they discover the money is marked.
Genres: Crime Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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A Day in the Life
Overview: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of Stick's drug houses and kills two of his men, Stick is forced to choose between leaving it all behind or seeking revenge and feeding the cycle of violence.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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Freeway
Overview: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Jason's Lyric
Overview: The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-28
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Life
Overview: Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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It's the Rage
Overview: A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of it all are Helen and Warren Harding, an up-scale couple on the brink of divorce, whose awakening in the night by a burglar sets off a catastrophic series of events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-11
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Black Dynamite
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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3000 Miles to Graceland
Overview: It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, Michael must track down Murphy.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-23
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Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
Overview: During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the woman who set him free accidentally, Morgana, tries to find a way to stop him, aided by a young priest.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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Strapped
Overview: Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes a deal with a weapons cop to turn in local gun dealers. However, the D.A. is not satisfied with the results, resulting in some serious game playing and double crossing.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-21
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Detonator
Overview: A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-23
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The Rock
Overview: When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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The Fifth Commandment
Overview: In Bangkok, an assassin who turns down a job that hits too close to home finds himself targeted by the elite members of his profession
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-21
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Panther
Overview: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-03
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Sniper 2
Overview: A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation of hit-and-run ethnic cleansing missions in an area known as "No Man's Land."
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-28
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Almost Heroes
Overview: Two hapless explorers lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hopeless, doomed effort to reach the Pacific Ocean before Lewis and Clark.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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The Last Sentinel
Overview: No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect civilization until the drone police became the perfect enemy. With little hope left for mankind, Tallis, an electronically enhanced soldier, rescues a survivor from a failed resistance mission. She will have to learn to fight and think like a machine for the final battle to save the human race.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-19
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Blackmale
Overview: Two desperate con men attempt to blackmail a psychotic doctor who may just be a serial killer.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-11
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Devil
Overview: A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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The Poker House
Overview: Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-20
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Flesh Wounds
Overview: On a remote U.S. Army facility a group of scientists vanish while conducting experiments with a top secret weapon. An elite covert ops team commanded by Lt. Tyler (Kevin Sorbo) is sent on a rescue mission that quickly turns deadly. With time running out and the death count rising, Tyler's team must hunt and destroy a predator unlike any they have ever encountered or become its next victim.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-09
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Total Recall
Overview: Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-02
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Edmond
Overview: Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers encompassing his long-suppressed rage, until Edmond explodes in violence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Overview: The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster, a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-28
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The Breed
Overview: Vampires have come out of the shadows and are living as normal citizens. Two policemen, one a vampire, are assigned to track down a serial killer who tears the throat of his victims and drains their blood.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-19
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Blood of a Champion
Overview: Shadow, a once-promising boxer, finds it hard to readjust to civilian life after spending ten years in prison. Offered the chance to fight again
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-01
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The Host
Overview: A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-22
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The Circle
Overview: A frantic young woman begs a stranger to help save her marked husband, not realizing that the stranger is the hit man hired to kill him. Experimental digital movie shot entirely in one take and in real time.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-18
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Spenser Confidential 2
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Riddick
Overview: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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They Die by Dawn
Overview: Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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Caught on Tape
Overview: A young boy uses his video camera that he got for his birthday to spy on his mother's boyfriend, who's plotting a crime. Mix in a nosy neighbor, jealous fiancé, shady maintenance man, a UPS driver with a heist gone horribly wrong and you're bound to have some drama.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-05
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Letting Go
Overview: Unlucky in love, strangled at work, and tormented at home, Joel Slater is desperately searching for a way to juggle his life. But sometimes, the secret to happiness begins with letting go.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-02
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The Runner
Overview: A compulsive gambler finds his new family's safety seriously threatened by a ruthless gambling boss.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-09
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Sacrifice
Overview: A convicted bank robber breaks free as he is being transported to prison after learning that his daughter has been killed by a serial killer. Determined to find her killer, he joins with a female cop who is working the case. He quickly discovers that his daughter had recently had an abortion, an action common to all of the murdered women. Meanwhile the FBI agent that he escaped from is hot on his trail.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-23
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1982
Overview: 1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted mother. As his wife becomes more distant and unreliable, he struggles to raise his daughter on his own, while still striving to help his wife become clean. In the process, he learns some hard truths about his marriage and his life, which will ultimately test him as a parent, a husband, and a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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The Night Crew
Overview: A group of hard up bounty hunters must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-17
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Old Dads
Overview: A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
Overview: Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-14
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Earth Mama
Overview: A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-07
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Caught Up
Overview: Daryl gets out of jail after 5 years. His mother has died, his girlfriend is married, and he can't find a job. His new girlfriend Vanessa, whom he meets when a gunman opens fire on them, gets him a job as a car driver. Hitmen are still after them, and Vanessa tells Daryl that this is her former lover Ahmad who wants revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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AWOL-72
Overview: An AWOL marine in possession of secret government information, is a wanted man, pursued by Russian special ops, the LAPD, and a dangerous assassin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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The Elevator
Overview: Things are going swimmingly for the film producer Roy Tilden, his last film is a success and he will soon receive an award for it. But his perfect day changed quickly when he takes an elevator with a keen writer. Directly after the door is closed, the emergency stop button is pressed and he is caught with a bunch of mildly different people.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-01
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Billionaire Boys Club
Overview: A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-19
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
Overview: Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-05
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Dead Presidents
Overview: On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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Little Murder
Overview: In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-08
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The Big Hit
Overview: Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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Five Thirteen
Overview: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to protect his young daughter from an unforgiving ex. But the justice that awaits him on the streets is far worse than anything Mike had experienced in prison. His older brother Tre begrudgingly agrees to one last "delivery", attempting to free Mike and his new girlfriend from the grips of the criminal underworld. What transpires is a wild misadventure where multiple lives unknowingly intersect, and where decisions are made that will haunt everyone forever
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-11
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In the Shadow of the Moon
Overview: In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the killer mysteriously resurfaces nine years later, Locke's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, his family, and possibly his sanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Mom and Dad
Overview: In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Spenser Confidential
Overview: Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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The Butcher
Overview: A mob enforcer is set up to take the fall for a multi-million dollar heist involving a rival gang boss. Merle (Eric Roberts) is a gambler stuck on a twenty-year losing streak, but his luck is about to change. Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him, Merle makes away with a beautiful woman and a piece of the take. Most men in that position would have been content to simply walk away with their lives, but Merle has been loyal for twenty years. Realizing he's been betrayed, something inside snaps. They used to call him "The Butcher" as a joke, but the laughter turns to screams when Merle returns to deliver the ultimate punchline.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-10
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Queen & Slim
Overview: While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Gridlock'd
Overview: After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-29
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Crooklyn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Confessions
Overview: Confessions of a Call Girl is a revealing story of a women's struggle for balance as she battles a secret addiction while fighting to save her family and find herself.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-23
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Overview: When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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For Love or Money
Overview: Tina seems to have it all: booming business, lots of money, and a great man, Russell, that loves her. So it was no surprised when she was nominated for Mocha Magazine's Woman of year. But with one false move from her shady accountant, her award, business, and money may be gone forever. But when Russell can only offer affection, Tina runs to her rich ex, Jacoby, for financial support. Now she must decide if her pursuit should be For Love or Money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-01
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Jasper, Texas
Overview: In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-08
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Juice
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-17
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The Inspection
Overview: Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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The Champagne Gang
Overview: The Champagne Gang is an exciting action-packed drama about four beautiful California beach girls who pull heists to pay for luxury items and surfing vacations to Mexico and Hawaii.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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Overlord
Overview: France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
Genres: Horror War Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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