Shades of Black

Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Forbes (Carl Weathers) link a suspect to a witness of a hit-and-run fatality.

A Los Angeles high-school teacher (Samuel L. Jackson) confronts violent students with a grudge against him and society.","large":"When a student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson), he feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but, soon after, Trevor is stabbed by the same student. Fifteen months later, a ph

A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration of a Black woman's life in Mississippi, winding through love and heartbreak.

Three rival gangsters wage war for control of the Philadelphia drug trade.

When members of a stuffy country club oppose his bid to join, a rap mogul (Antwan "Big Boi" Patton) buys the land adjacent to the golf course's 17th hole.","large":"Superstar rap mogul C-Note (Antwan "Big Boi" Patton) wants to join the Carolina Pines Golf & Country Club, but faces stiff opposition from the establishment's snooty members. C-Note forces the issue by purchasing the land adjacent to t

A man returns home to Atlanta to save his family's struggling restaurant with the help of a new chicken recipe.

From humble beginnings to Oscar-winning Hollywood icon, actor Denzel Washington's career spans television, film and Broadway.

A suave Los Angeles detective (Billy Dee Williams) and his quirky partner (Robert Carradine) hunt a drug lord who has social clout.","large":"Detectives Barzak and Hazeltine are trying their hardest to bring down a drug ring, but they're meeting with trouble at every turn, which leads the officers to suspect a mole in their midst. When the detectives are dissuaded by their superiors from following

Tragedy strikes a prosperous Louisiana family in 1962 after a girl (Jurnee Smollett) catches her father (Samuel L. Jackson) with another woman.","large":"Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old black girl, Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. The philandering of her suave doctor father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), c

As Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Harriet prepare to leave for their honeymoon, Forbes (Carl Weathers) clashes with a charismatic cult leader (Peter Fonda) who has arrived in Sparta.

A racist prison guard has an affair with a Black woman after her husband, who was sentenced to capital punishment, dies.","large":"Hank, an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia, a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death. The affair begins just after Hank oversees the capital punishment of Leticia's hu

In Philadelphia, a high-school basketball player, his sister and their older brother face life-changing decisions as they struggle to make something of themselves.

Akeelah, an 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, discovers she has a talent for spelling, which she hopes will take her to the National Spelling Bee.