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Just Wright
( 2010 )
A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.
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Set It Off
( 1996 )
Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
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Living Single
( 1993 )
Six black 20-somethings -- four women and two men -- share their lives and loves in a Brooklyn brownstone. A trio of women share one of the apartments, receiving frequent visits from a fourth pal; meanwhile, two men who've been friends for years share an apartment one floor up.
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The Boondocks
( 2005 )
In The Boondocks, Robert "Granddad" Freeman is the cantankerous legal guardian of his rambunctious grandkids Huey and Riley and has moved them from the south side of Chicago to the quiet and safety of "The Boondocks" (in this case, suburban Woodcrest), hoping that he can ignore them altogether and enjoy the golden years of his life in peace. But Huey, a 10-year-old left wing revolutionary, is determined not to enjoy the affluence of suburbia. This attitude is seconded by his 8-year-old brother, Riley, a proud product of contemporary rap culture. Although they torture each other and provoke the neighborhood, they are no match for Granddad, who is eccentric even by "crazy-ass-old-black-man" standards.
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
( 2010 )
Four couples struggle to save their marriages once again on their annual marriage retreat, while each of them battle through financial, physical, mental, and emotional issues.
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Madea's Big Happy Family
( 2011 )
The crazy and comical Mabel Simmons, otherwise known as Madea, tries to wrangle her fighting family together for a family dinner regarding the health of her niece Shirley.
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Daddy's Little Girls
( 2007 )
A mechanic (Idris Elba) enlists the help of a successful, but lonely, attorney (Gabrielle Union) while trying to win custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. This is a simple, touching story of two people trying to overcome their different backgrounds to find love, a down-on-his-luck man struggling to protect his children from abuse and neglect, and a community looking to purge itself from the criminals terrorizing their neighborhood.
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Why Did I Get Married?
( 2007 )
The big screen adaptation of Perry's stage play about the trials of marriage, and what happens to one family when a sexy young temptress arrives on the scene.
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For Colored Girls
( 2010 )
Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
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Baggage Claim
( 2013 )
Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé.
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Madea's Family Reunion
( 2006 )
While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with other dramas, including her love-troubled nieces and the runaway who was placed in her care.
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
( 2005 )
A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.
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Nobody's Fool
( 2018 )
Danica is a successful worker at a marketing firm, and has been in a relationship with "Charlie", a man she met online a year ago but has never seen in person. When she is sent to pick up her recently-paroled sister Tanya from prison, her mother tells her that Tanya must stay at her house. Tanya is amazed by Danica's apartment and discovers that Danica's ex-fiance Bailey left her for another woman. Tanya thinks Danica is being catfished since she's never seen Charlie. The next day, Tanya and Danica stop by the Brown Bean, a coffee shop next to Danica's work. Frank, the owner, who has a crush on Danica, insists that he will let Tanya work there. When Danica goes to pick up Tanya from work that night she accidentally walks into an AA meeting that is being held there and overhears that Frank used to abuse alcohol and spent seven years in jail.
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No Good Deed
( 2014 )
An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.
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The Karate Kid
( 2010 )
Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the 12-year-old boy embraces Kung Fu, taught to him by a master.
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Empire
( 2015 )
Empire is a powerful drama about a family dynasty set within the glamorous and sometimes dangerous world of hip-hop music. The show revolves around the Lyon family and their media company, Empire Entertainment. The founder, Lucious Lyon, is the king of hip-hop, but his company and reign are constantly threatened by his family, including his ex-wife, Cookie Lyon; his sons, Jamal, Hakeem and Andre; and a volatile and competitive music industry.
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Baby Boy
( 2001 )
In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.
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Obsessed
( 2009 )
A successful executive's seemingly perfect career and marriage starts falling apart when his firm hires a seductive office temp.
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Dreamgirls
( 2006 )
A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
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The Fighting Temptations
( 2003 )
A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect.
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Cadillac Records
( 2008 )
Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera
( 2001 )
A contemporary, urban retelling of the classic story, Carmen: A Hip Hopera follows the life of a police sergeant whose world is turned upside down when an irresistible woman enters his life.
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Made in America
( 1993 )
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
( 1993 )
Showgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure.
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Sister Act
( 1992 )
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
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Almost Christmas
( 2016 )
Walter Meyer (Danny Glover) is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life almost a year ago. For the holidays, he invites his now grown children and their families to his house (where they all grew up) for a traditional celebration. Walter soon realizes that if his bickering children and the rest of the family can spend five days together under the same roof, it will truly be a Christmas miracle.
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Precious
( 2009 )
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
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Jumping the Broom
( 2011 )
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
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The Parkers
( 1999 )
Spunky daughter Kim is mortified when her bigger-than-life mom, Nikki, decides to go back to school at the same junior college she attends.
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Love & Basketball
( 2000 )
Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.
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The Wood
( 1999 )
While dealing with a friend's cold feet on his wedding day, a writer reminisces about his youth with his best friends.
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Fatal Affair
( 2020 )
Ellie (Nia Long) tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus (Stephen Bishop) after a brief encounter with an old friend, David (Omar Epps), only to find that David is more dangerous and unstable than she'd realized. FATAL AFFAIR is directed by Peter Sullivan.
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Girls Trip
( 2017 )
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
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TV Show:
First Wives Club
( 2019 )
Based on the 1996 Paramount Pictures movie, the First Wives Club series will follow a group of women who band together after their marriages fall apart, and who find strength in their sisterhood - and of course a little revenge.
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The Perfect Guy
( 2015 )
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.
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A Raisin in the Sun
( 2008 )
An African-American family struggles with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
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Nappily Ever After
( 2018 )
Violet Jones tired of waiting for her longtime boyfriend to propose, breaks up with him. But old feelings, and heaps of jealousy, no doubt, arise when he promptly begins dating another woman.
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Disappearing Acts
( 2000 )
A couple in the midst of a tumultuous relationship fight to stay together.
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Brown Sugar
( 2002 )
Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
( 1998 )
Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica.
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The Best Man Holiday
( 2013 )
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
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The Best Man
( 1999 )
Just before his best friend's wedding, the life of a Chicago writer becomes crazy when his best friend guesses that his new book's story is based on his bride's fervent past.
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Not Easily Broken
( 2009 )
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
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The Brothers
( 2001 )
Four friends begin to question women and relationships when one of them announces impending nuptials.
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Two Can Play That Game
( 2001 )
An arrogant career woman plays a series of heartless mind-games with her boyfriend to "put him in line," only to discover that he has a few tricks up his own sleeve.
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Soul Food
( 1997 )
One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.
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The Single Moms Club
( 2014 )
When five struggling single moms put aside their differences to form a support group, they find inspiration and laughter in their new sisterhood, and help each other overcome the obstacles that stand in their way.
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Love Jones
( 1997 )
A poet and photographer in Chicago explore their growing relationship while discussing love with friends. When she tests his feelings, romantic complications follow.
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Friday
( 1995 )
It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business
( 2004 )
The owner of an historic South Side Chicago barbershop is pressured to sell out to a land developer, but must face the impact this would have on his close-knit community.
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Barbershop
( 2002 )
A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.
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Barbershop: The Next Cut
( 2016 )
As their surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, the crew at Calvin's Barbershop come together to bring some much needed change to their neighborhood.
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Next Friday
( 2000 )
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
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Friday After Next
( 2002 )
Working as security guards, Craig and Day-Day run into the thief who stole their Christmas presents.
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Think Like a Man
( 2012 )
Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey's relationship advice against them.
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Think Like a Man Too
( 2014 )
All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.
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Deliver Us from Eva
( 2003 )
Eva doesn't let her 3 sisters' men push them around. She's always butting in. How to pacify Eva? Find her a man. The men pay a playboy to be that man. The problem is - he falls in love with Eva.
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Last Holiday
( 2006 )
Georgia, who leads a life full of unfulfilled desires, is left shocked when she discovers her terminal illness. Soon, she quits her job, gathers her savings and sets out on a luxurious trip to Europe.
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Eve's Bayou
( 1997 )
What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer, Louis Batiste, is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
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Shaft
( 2000 )
New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
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Shaft
( 2019 )
JJ Shaft, a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family's help to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death.
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Coach Carter
( 2005 )
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
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Hustle & Flow
( 2005 )
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
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black-ish
( 2014 )
Andre 'Dre' Johnson has a great job, a beautiful wife, Rainbow, four kids, and a colonial home in the 'burbs. But has success brought too much assimilation for this black family? With a little help from his dad, Dre sets out to establish a sense of cultural identity for his family that honors their past while embracing the future.
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grown-ish
( 2018 )
grown-ish follows the Johnson's eldest daughter Zoey as she heads off to college and quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest. The series is a contemporary take on the current issues facing both students and administrators in the world of higher education. Zoey and Charlie, an adjunct marketing professor, will be joined by new characters both in the administration and student body who reflect the complex and hilarious points of view that populate college campuses.
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mixed-ish
( 2019 )
In mixed-ish, Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the '80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves. Bow's parents Paul and Alicia decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they're perceived as neither black nor white. This family's experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one's own identity when the rest of the world can't decide where you belong.
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Girlfriends
( 2000 )
Girlfriends is a sophisticated comedy series that invites viewers into the lives of three professional African American women living in Los Angeles who are struggling with the weighty issues of life - men, love, money -- and more men. Girlfriends returns for its triumphant final year, providing an open, honest exploration of the hot-button issues about family, friends, relationships and life facing women today. With fearlessness and sincerity, the show takes on universal issues that interest all women. Whether it is being recently engaged, exploring your career or balancing friendships and a new baby, Girlfriends treats them all with tenderness, care and respect.
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Never Die Alone
( 2004 )
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
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Cradle 2 the Grave
( 2003 )
A jewel thief's daughter is kidnapped after he steals a collection of prized black diamonds, which aren't at all what they seem.
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Motives
( 2004 )
Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business tycoon who happens to be married to the quintessential wife Constance. Things go dangerously awry when the thrill seeking Emery engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah. Timing couldn't be any worse when the politics of high soci...Read all
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Motives 2
( 2007 )
Well Simmons isn't dead, And Brandon in for a rude awakening And Connie. Don help his brother proves His innocent, and the big twist comes and change Everything and one......
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Getting Played
( 2005 )
Three beautiful women decide, on a bet, to select and seduce a total stranger.
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Booty Call
( 1997 )
Two friends who have gone too long without sex set out to get some.
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Boyz n the Hood
( 1991 )
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
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The Tuskegee Airmen
( 1995 )
The true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II.
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Vampire in Brooklyn
( 1995 )
A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer who has no idea that she is half-vampire.
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Waiting to Exhale
( 1995 )
Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with men.
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Akeelah and the Bee
( 2006 )
Akeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.
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Joyful Noise
( 2012 )
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
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Pimp
( 2018 )
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female Pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
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Brotherly Love
( 2015 )
Set on the backdrop of Philadelphia's famed Overbrook High School, we track the lives of the nations number one high school basketball player Sergio Taylor as he deals with the early pressures of hood fame.
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What's Love Got to Do with It
( 1993 )
The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
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Chi-Raq
( 2016 )
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Rosa Parks Story
( 2002 )
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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With This Ring
( 2015 )
After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year to either a new love or a man waiting in the wings. But the close friends face their own set of challenges - Trista has not gotten over her commitment-phobic ex-boyfriend Damon (White), Viviane is secretly in love with Sean (George), the father of her son, and Amaya is desperate to break up her boyfriend Keith's (Sanders) unhappy marriage so they can live happily ever after. Each woman starts the year with high hopes and dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months... but will they all make it to the altar?
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Jason's Lyric
( 1994 )
Two brothers, survivors of family tragedy, take different life paths: one falls for a high-spirited waitress and dreams of success, the other follows a life of petty crime. Their lives reconnect in shattering fashion.
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The Secret Life of Bees
( 2008 )
1964. Lily, a lonely teenager, flees from her home and reaches a small town in South Carolina. Once there, she finds herself in the company of the Boatwright sisters who introduce her to a new world.
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Steel Magnolias
( 2012 )
Six Louisiana women (Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashad, Jill Scott, Alfre Woodard) gather at a beauty salon for their daily dose of female bonding.
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About Last Night
( 2014 )
Follow two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
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When the Bough Breaks
( 2016 )
A surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father.
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Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison
( 2020 )
Released from prison and placed on probation, Tijuana Jackson sets out to fulfill his dream of becoming a world renowned motivational speaker but fails to comply with strict orders from his no-nonsense probation officer. Chasing a life changing opportunity, he violates his parole, flees his jurisdiction, abandoning his family and community in the process. Facing more jail time and cut off from the only support system he's ever had, TJ must master the art of achieving selfless success through serving his community or fail miserably serving time.
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Dear White People
( 2017 )
Set among a diverse group of students of color as they navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college where racial tensions are often swept under the rug, Dear White People is a send up of "post-racial" America that also weaves a universal story about forging one's own unique path.
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The Hate U Give
( 2018 )
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.
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The Honeymooners
( 2005 )
Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always around to help him get in (and out of) trouble.
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Acrimony
( 2018 )
A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
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Meet the Browns
( 2008 )
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father--a man she never met--and she and her clan meet the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
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I Can Do Bad All by Myself
( 2009 )
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
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The Bodyguard
( 1992 )
A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.
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