Shades of Black

A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.

A weary high-paid killer (Forest Whitaker) balks at his last job when he meets his targets: his client's wife (Sherilyn Fenn) and baby.","large":"A veteran hit man, Dekker (Forest Whitaker) is ready to call it quits and leave the profession. Dekker's final job, however, proves to be trickier than expected when the sadistic Zidzyck (Lewis Smith) recruits the assassin to kill his wife, Jain (Sherily

Pregnant and abused, a Harlem teen (Gabourey Sidibe) enrolls in an alternative school in an attempt to bring value to her life.","large":"Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write and suffers constant abuse at the hands of her vicious mother (Mo'Nique). Precious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life ar

When Reginald "Cool" Coolidge's ex-fiancée, Charli, pulls in to the gas station where he works, Cool realizes that he still loves her after three years apart. But there is one problem: Charli's wedding to another man is only 36 hours away.","large":"Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is an actor hoping for his big break away from stereotypical black roles. When his ex-fiancée, Charli, pulls in to the gas st

Released from juvenile detention, a troubled teen enters the world of extreme BMX bike riding with help from his foster father.","large":"After a violent, racially charged incident lands John in juvenile detention, he is finally placed with an unlikely set of foster parents, Eldridge and Marianna, an interracial couple. Eldridge makes it his mission to overcome the challenges of John's white supre

A young woman recounts how her life changed after she moved in with her grandmother.

A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).","large":"After leaving the South as a young man and finding employment at an elite hotel in Washington, D.C., Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) gets the opportunity of a li

When a young girl and her dying mother are joined by a black male cook who comes to live with them, little do they know that their lives are about to change forever.

Escaped convicts (Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin) fight while they evade authorities seeking a computer disk on Cuban mobsters.","large":"During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper (Laurence Fishburne) is chained to Dodge (Stephen Baldwin), a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that so

A New York journalist (Christopher Reeve) lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp (Morgan Freeman) up for murder.","large":"Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a reporter struggling to keep his job at a magazine. Assigned to write a real-life prostitution exposé, he fails to gain information from his subjects and decides to make up his own story about a pimp. The piece reviv

A weary high-paid killer (Forest Whitaker) balks at his last job when he meets his targets: his client's wife (Sherilyn Fenn) and baby.","large":"A veteran hit man, Dekker (Forest Whitaker) is ready to call it quits and leave the profession. Dekker's final job, however, proves to be trickier than expected when the sadistic Zidzyck (Lewis Smith) recruits the assassin to kill his wife, Jain (Sherily

A movie theater owner must defend his family business from corporate developers alongside a legendary action star as art imitates life in a showdown for the ages.

In Jones County, Miss., Newt Knight (Matthew McConaughey) joins forces with other farmers and a group of runaway slaves to lead a violent rebellion against the Confederacy.","large":"In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to