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    Beat Street (1984)

    A student composer (Rae Dawn Chong) inspires South Bronx residents to new heights in break dancing,...

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    The Cool World (1964)

    A young Harlem man rises to power in his street gang after taking inspiration from a Black Muslim...

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    Vive L'Amour (1996)

    In the overpopulated metropolis of Taipei, two men and a woman literally circle each other. Mei-mei...

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    Homicide (1991)

    A Jewish cop faces a crisis of conscience when he learns a shopkeeper may have been killed by an...

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    The Black Gestapo

    The staff leader (Charles P. Robinson) of a black community-service militia organizes a private army...

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    Running Out of Time (1994)

    Antonio, a member of an ETA commando, is more interested in his neighbor than in his terrorist...

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    Fresh (1994)

    Death and violence anger a 12-year-old drug courier (Sean Nelson) who pits his employers against...

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    Living the Life

    Best friends Cata and Ana are two of the toughest members of their gang, fearing nothing but the...

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    Forty Deuce

    Rickey, a teenage male hustler, attempts to frame Mr. Roper, his chicken-hawk john, for the death of...

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    Welcome II the Terrordome

    Set in a decaying and racially segregated city in the near future, this action-thriller uses a...

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    White Trash (1992)

    An jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game...

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    Sprung (1997)

    The story of two pairs of best friends, and their attempts at romance through lying and love.

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    Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)

    A husky New York columnist (Paul Sorvino) falls for a ballerina (Anne Ditchburn) in bad health who...

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    Bones (2001)

    A murdered hoodlum rises from the dead 20 years later to seek revenge on the friends who betrayed...

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    Way Past Cool (2003)

    A group of 12 and 13-year-old kids living in Oakland fight to protect their neighborhood from drug...

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    Jakob the Liar (1999)

    A Jew (Robin Williams) gives hope to others in a Polish ghetto by saying he has a radio which gives...

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    The Education of Sonny Carson

    A surprisingly long and worthwhile film, The Education of Sonny Carson is based on a true story....

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    Raven's End (1970)

    A young wanna-be novelist yearns to escape the urban slum he where he lives with his alcoholic...

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    Mister Cory (1957)

    A youth from the slums of Chicago uses his wiles and his gambling savvy and eventually grows to...

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    The River Niger

    A dying woman (Cicely Tyson), her poet husband (James Earl Jones), their ex-Air Force son (Glynn...

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    Raising Victor Vargas (2003)

    A clergyman (Glenn Ford) and his wife (Julie Harris) befriend an escaped convict in the 1930s.

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    Taiyo No Hakaba (1985)

    Juvenile delinquent young girls fall prey to ruthless gangs who control prostitution and illegal...

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    Bebe's Kids (1992)

    Three lonely latchkey kids vent their frustrations. Based on late comic Robin Harris' stand-up...

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    Cholera Street

    People in lower class Istanbul are awed by the arrival of a high-class call girl Tina who, with her...

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    Love Jones (1997)

    Emotionally vulnerable Chicagoans (Larenz Tate, Nia Long) carry on a torrid affair but deny their...

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    Bullet Boy

    Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go...

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    The White Balloon (1996)

    Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to...

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    OT: Our Town (2003)

    Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy follows California high-school students as they produce the...

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    Nowhere Fast

    On a Friday afternoon in Brooklyn, a mother searches for her son; a husband, for heroin; a mental...

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    Belly (1998)

    Two young friends (Nas, DMX) involved in organized crime and drug dealing find that their priorities...