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The Roku Channel
82
7.8
/7943/
79
/188/
71
/109/
3.9
/15467/
96
/92/
89
/174/

The Celluloid Closet (1996)
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
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Netflix
76
7.2
/1709/
72
/99/
62
/34/
3.8
/5950/
100
/43/
63
/7/
83
/16/
cc age 15+

Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
poster
75
7.1
/7095/
69
/184/
67
/122/
3.7
/13708/
82
/11/
77
/51/
65
/6/

The Gambler (1974)
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
poster
71
7.0
/2667/
71
/49/
63
/41/
3.6
/2116/
86
/22/
63
/31/

Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
70
7.0
/8256/
70
/271/
67
/125/
3.7
/13518/
84
/19/
78
/117/

Across 110th Street (1972)
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
poster
70
6.2
/8977/
71
/326/
59
/119/
3.4
/6748/
86
/29/
59
/211/
71
/9/

Car Wash (1976)
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
poster
77
70
7.8
/2892/
80
/310/
75
/242/
3.9
/9534/

La Classe américaine (1993)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
poster
69
6.5
/2465/
61
/51/
56
/38/
3.5
/4115/
100
/5/
61
/19/

Cisco Pike (1971)
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
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Hoopla
64
6.5
/14098/
61
/417/
69
/399/
2.7
/16232/
70
/27/
58
/180/
66
/10/

Pretty Baby (1978)
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
63
6.7
/4717/
69
/133/
63
/75/
3.7
/14584/
73
/15/
75
/119/

Putney Swope (1969)
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
poster
62
6.0
/4356/
65
/136/
58
/94/
3.2
/4147/
70
/10/
42
/57/

Shakedown (1988)
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.
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Hoopla
61
5.9
/3768/
64
/123/
56
/72/
3.3
/5192/
80
/15/
45
/118/
58
/7/

Cleopatra Jones (1973)
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
poster
MGM Plus
61
6.5
/13921/
67
/449/
62
/250/
3.4
/26023/
59
/22/
66
/384/
46
/7/

Foxy Brown (1974)
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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Starz
61
6.5
/66991/
69
/2329/
70
/1436/
3.2
/59381/
32
/28/
80
/2607/
53
/16/
cc age 17+

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
poster
The Roku Channel
60
6.3
/41124/
67
/1857/
64
/1063/
3.0
/71775/
55
/111/
42
/1293/
57
/28/
cc age 10+

Osmosis Jones (2001)
A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.
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Kanopy
57
6.6
/16210/
68
/581/
63
/202/
3.3
/11595/
62
/29/
71
/521/
48
/13/

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.
poster
54
6.1
/39410/
64
/1396/
62
/742/
2.9
/29529/
40
/35/
52
/918/
50
/7/
cc age 15+

Firestarter (1984)
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
poster
52
5.6
/4869/
54
/148/
52
/110/
3.0
/5333/
38
/13/
34
/35/

Whore (1991)
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
5.3
/24862/
62
/4140/
52
/1081/
2.5
/12215/
70
/20/
37
/155/
46
/8/

Beyond Skyline (2017)
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
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MGM Plus
51
47
5.5
/7311/
53
/195/
55
/158/
2.8
/12105/
57
/7/
47
/154/
34
/4/

Crimewave (1985)
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.
poster
63
47
6.6
/2433/
66
/64/
56
/29/
3.5
/1068/
55
/22/
73
/142/
59
/19/

American Pimp (2000)
Street pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being flamboyant, pimping in various U.S. cities, bringing a woman into their group, taking a woman from another pimp, and the rules and regulations of pimping. The men are clear: it's about money.
poster
70
46
7.3
/2416/
64
/35/
68
/37/
3.4
/821/
71
/14/
77
/28/

Conrack (1974)
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
poster
MGM Plus
54
39
6.4
/2429/
64
/63/
62
/52/
3.5
/5306/
17
/6/
51
/22/

Busting (1974)
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
poster
51
38
4.7
/3892/
67
/155/
55
/56/
2.9
/645/
68
/78/
11
/16/

3 Strikes (2000)
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, they are pulled over, and his friend shoots at police officers, and Hooks escapes. Now Hooks, a wanted man, must clear his name of having nothing to do with the shooting.
poster
73
34
7.0
/1157/
73
/39/
67
/11/
3.5
/732/
86
/825/

Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
poster
Hoopla
45
33
5.3
/2377/
54
/64/
49
/59/
3.0
/2671/
30
/10/
25
/18/

The Borrower (1991)
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
39
31
4.2
/2754/
46
/95/
45
/88/
2.3
/2290/
19
/60/

Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
poster
45
29
4.7
/2024/
55
/34/
45
/29/
2.6
/1478/
43
/40/
29
/4/

Up the Academy (1980)
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
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Amazon Prime Video
51
28
5.8
/1127/
55
/30/
47
/22/
3.2
/1599/
32
/7/
53
/4/

Streetwalkin' (1985)
Cookie is a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke. With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for Duke, who introduces her to the harsh, brutal life of being a prostitute.
poster
37
22
4.3
/2619/
42
/42/
38
/31/
2.7
/577/
24
/55/
24
/16/

The Suburbans (1999)
The Suburbans, a one-hit-wonder new wave band from the '80s, reunite at their bassist's wedding, where a promising young record executive sees the ensemble perform. When she encourages them to launch a revival, the group must weigh their dreams of fame and fortune against the reality of their relatively quiet domestic lives.
poster
fuboTV
43
22
4.8
/1528/
52
/39/
52
/30/
22
/32/

Once Fallen (2010)
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?
poster
45
18
4.2
/1160/
53
/13/
43
/22/
2.8
/515/
32
/41/

Milo (1998)
Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. Sixteen years later, the four survivors of the event re-unite under happier circumstances in the same town where it happened. They believe that Milo drowned in a river shortly after the murder, but soon learn that the demonic killer Milo has also returned, still a young boy, unchanged even after almost two decades.
poster
36
14
3.2
/796/
36
/40/
47
/43/
2.6
/319/
15
/6/

Snakehead Swamp (2014)
A horrifying hybrid of genetic science and nature has taken over the Louisiana bayou, leaving terror in its wake! In the heat of the summer, what began as an day of boating and bikinis changes drastically when a school of genetically enhanced snakehead fish finds their way into Black Briar Swamp.
poster
53
10
5.4
/224/
61
/5/
60
/5/
38
/26/

Huckleberry Finn (1978)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
poster
fuboTV
49
8
4.4
/375/
53
/24/
48
/10/
2.6
/356/
cc age 14+

Until We Meet Again (2022)
A woman finds her new house is haunted by the ghost of a young pianist.
poster
35
8
3.8
/550/
41
/17/
29
/15/
2.7
/523/
17
/4/

Night of the Sharks (1988)
David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who will get David first, the gangsters or the shark?
poster
31
6
5.3
/288/
10
/1/
50
/12/
12
/3/

Florida Straits (1986)
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a cache of gold buried during the invasion. But can they trust each other?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
5.6
/43/

Mister Mayfair: Serena's Game (2021)
Refusing to comply with Tommy's demands, Max and Paul conspire to have the British gangster eliminated and Serena arrested. With Tommy dead and Serena in handcuffs, it appears as though Max has succeeded. His plan goes awry, however, when MI6 force Max to help Serena bring down her employers: the Russian mob. Torn between a life of crime with Serena or happiness with Ava, nothing is ever simple in the life of Max Mayfair.—MSR Media
poster
?
5.6
/48/

Mister Mayfair: Shooting Paul (2021)
Hoping to put the past behind him and go legit, Max is persuaded by Paul to open a new Mister Mayfair club in Portugal. Conflict, however, seems to follow Max wherever he goes. Drawn into a violent turf war between London Gangsters and the Italian Mafia, his relationship with Ava is jeopardized by the arrival of his former flame, Serena. Max's carefully crafted world seems to be collapsing around him. With his family's lives on the line, Max is blackmailed by British crime boss, Tommy, to assassinate his best friend, Paul.—MSR Media
poster
?
7.5
/78/
10
/1/

Soul Survivors (1995)
Otis Cooke is a DJ with a late-night American soul music programme in Liverpool. His favorite band, The Tallahassees, disbanded years ago, but their biggest hit, "Pickin' Up the Pieces," was never released in England. The film recounts Cooke's adventures and misadventures as he travels to the U.S., finds the band members, and convinces them to get back together for a reunion tour of the U.K and the release of their old songs on CD.
poster
?
7.3
/8/

He's Starsky, I'm Hutch (2004)
The forty-five minute documentary explores the trials and tribulations of Starsky and Hutch star David Soul while giving accounts by actors and producers on the creation of the legendary TV show.
poster
59
?
4.9
/136/
55
/6/
75
/2/

X Returns (2009)
After nearly 40 years of false imprisonment, cruel scientific testing and denial by the US government, Agent X is finally a free man again.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
?
4.8
/496/
64
/74/
57
/12/

Murder City (2023)
A disgraced former cop finds himself working for a ruthless female kingpin to pay off his estranged father’s debt and protect his family.
poster
27
?
3.3
/185/
30
/1/
20
/5/

Jack's Law (2006)
Jack Santos is a retired undercover vice cop whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and daughter. After serving a prison term for a crime he did not commit, Jack returns to the streets with a vengeance against crime, and takes to vigilantism.
poster
?
5.6
/16/
10
/1/

P.O.P. (1984)
A magazine editor battles her ex-con husband when he returns to the scene after a 21-year absence.
poster
44
?
3.6
/141/
47
/13/
49
/7/
cc age 13+

One Year Off (2023)
Claire and her pals are invited to the West Indies by their friend Ben, who just inherited an island getaway. To pass the long days, they start a business hosting beachfront weddings, resulting in both awesome success and hilarious disaster. Meanwhile, the sun and scenery put Claire, Ben, and their posse in the mood for romance. Will the next wedding be one of theirs?
poster
?
4.2
/95/

The Caper (2007)
A street-hardened bank robber just released from prison sets out to reunite with his father and rob The Bank of Hollywood. Enlisting the aide of a femme fatale and an out-of-work Elvis impersonator as accomplices, they promise the easiest pay-off of their miserable lives Five hundred large for five minutes work.
poster
?
5.3
/43/
10
/1/

A Good Sport (1984)
The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.


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