race-relations
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    Hairspray (2007)

    In 1960s Baltimore a plump teen (Nikki Blonsky) becomes an overnight celebrity after she wins a spot...

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    Lakeview Terrace (2008)

    A police officer (Samuel L. Jackson), the self-proclaimed watchdog of his neighborhood, becomes...

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    The Cotton Club (1984)

    A cornet player (Richard Gere) escorts gangster Dutch Schultz's girlfriend (Diane Lane) amid gang...

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    Freedomland (2006)

    A detective (Samuel L. Jackson) investigates a carjacking that resulted in the abduction of the...

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    Something New (2006)

    A black woman (Sanaa Lathan) raises eyebrows among her friends when she develops a budding romance...

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    Undercover Brother (2002)

    A low-rent private detective (Eddie Griffin) poses as a preppy nerd in order to foil a plot by...

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    Talk to Me (2007)

    Fueled by the music and social upheaval of the times, ex-convict Ralph ``Petey'' Greene (Don...

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    The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

    Haunted by memories of her late mother, a teen (Dakota Fanning) finds comfort with three sisters who...

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    Remember the Titans (2000)

    A Virginia high school hires a black football coach (Denzel Washington) after undergoing integration...

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    Manderlay (2006)

    In 1933 a young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live...

  • In the Heat of the Night picture
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    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

    A black Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) helps a white Mississippi sheriff (Rod Steiger)...

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    Cadence (1991)

    A misfit soldier (Charlie Sheen) lands in a bully's (Martin Sheen) stockade with five men united by...

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    Malcolm X (1992)

    The civil-rights leader (Denzel Washington) rises from criminal to crusader, undergoing a religious...

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    Rosewood (1997)

    Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in...

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    Sorry, Haters (2006)

    A Muslim cabbie (Abdellatif Kechiche) is suspicious of an American woman's (Robin Wright Penn)...

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    Monster's Ball (2001)

    A racist prison-guard (Billy Bob Thornton) has an intense affair with a black woman (Halle Berry)...

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    Island in the Sun (1957)

    A planter (James Mason) runs for office against a labor leader (Harry Belafonte) in the British West...

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    Carlito's Way Rise To Power (2005)

    A New York gangster (Jay Hernandez) forms an alliance with two criminals to become the most powerful...

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    Leadbelly

    This biographical picture explores the troubled life of blues singer and master guitarist Leadbelly,...

  • Halls of Anger picture
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    Halls of Anger (1970)

    A teacher (Calvin Lockhart) in a middle-class school is bused with white students to a ghetto...

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    Constellation (2007)

    The continuing legacy of a long-ago, biracial love affair forms the backdrop for a tale of an...

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    Mister Johnson (1991)

    An African clerk (Maynard Eziashi) cuts colonial red tape for his British boss's (Pierce Brosnan)...

  • Come See the Paradise picture
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    Come See the Paradise (1990)

    An Irish-American union activist (Dennis Quaid) loves a Japanese-American (Tamlyn Tomita) during...

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    A Reasonable Man

    In Zululand a lawyer (Gavin Hood) dealing with ghosts of own his past defends a South African boy...

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    Bamboozled (2000)

    A Harvard-educated black man (Damon Wayans), the only minority representative at a foundering TV...

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    Coonskin (1975)

    Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic helmer Ralph Bakshi subsequently directed the über-controversial...

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    Lilies of the Field (1963)

    A traveling laborer teaches English to a group of German-speaking nuns while building a chapel for...

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    Falling Down (1993)

    An unemployed defense worker (Michael Douglas) goes on an armed rampage on a Los Angeles police...

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    Heaven's Fall

    In 1931 a New York defense lawyer (Timothy Hutton) comes to the aid of nine black men accused of...

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    The Breaks (1999)

    In this hip-hop oriented comedy, Mitch Mullany plays a guy living in Oakland, California, who's...