Tag Archives: race relations

Undercover Brother

IMDB Rating: 5.80
7945 votes

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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization, The Man, defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) has a weird behavior in his presidential campaign, the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is hired to work undercover in the white organization and find what happened with the potential candidate.
Actors
Mr. FeatherChris Kattan
White She DevilDenise Richards
Undercover Brother/Anton JacksonEddie Griffin
Also posted in 2002, Action, Comedy | Comments (12)

Amistad

IMDB Rating: 7.00
16375 votes

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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Actors
JoadsonMorgan Freeman
Martin Van BurenNigel Hawthorne
John Quincy AdamsAnthony Hopkins
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Mystery | Comments (1)

The Scalphunters

IMDB Rating: 6.60
481 votes

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Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
Actors
Joe BassBurt Lancaster
KateShelley Winters
Jim HowieTelly Savalas
Also posted in 1968, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

Bobby

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6138 votes

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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Inside Man

IMDB Rating: 7.60
36381 votes

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"Inside Man" is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen). As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.
Actors
Keith FrazierDenzel Washington
Dalton RussellClive Owen
Madeliene WhiteJodie Foster
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Human Stain

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7706 votes

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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
Actors
Coleman SilkAnthony Hopkins
Faunia FarleyNicole Kidman
Lester FarleyEd Harris
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Wild Wild West

IMDB Rating: 4.00
29281 votes

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Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.
Actors
Capt. James WestWill Smith
U.S. Marshal Artemus GordonKevin Kline
Dr. Arliss LovelessKenneth Branagh
Also posted in 1999, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western | Comments (0)

Showdown in Little Tokyo

IMDB Rating: 5.20
1730 votes

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In the area of Little Tokyo, Funekei Yoshida is the Yakuza boss, The policemen Chris Kenner and Johnny Murata try to stop him, both of them are experts in martial arts, language and japanese habit.
Actors
Sgt. KennerDolph Lundgren
Johnny MurataBrandon Lee
YoshidaCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Also posted in 1991, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | Comments (1)

Empire of the Sun

IMDB Rating: 7.50
12089 votes

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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.
Actors
Jim 'Jamie' GrahamChristian Bale
BasieJohn Malkovich
Mrs. VictorMiranda Richardson
Also posted in 1987, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

Platoon

IMDB Rating: 8.10
41512 votes

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A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers.
Actors
SSgt. Bob BarnesTom Berenger
Sgt. Elias GrodinWillem Dafoe
Pvt. Chris TaylorCharlie Sheen
Also posted in 1986, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)