Shades of Black

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

Conflicting evidence leads a federal agent (Guy Pearce) to question the motives behind a former Special Ops soldier's (Don Cheadle) apparent ties to terrorist groups.","large":"When straight-arrow agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) assumes command of a special FBI task force, he becomes entangled in a web of covert operations. All the clues in Clayton's investigation point to Samir Horn (Don Cheadle),

A recently released convict takes murderous revenge against his childhood friends who let him take the fall for their crimes.

A district attorney (Ray Liotta) must sort out conflicting stories when his assistant DA and sometime lover (Jolene Blalock) claims that the dead man in her bed tried to rape her, but a witness (LL Cool J) tells a different tale.","large":"As ambitious District Attorney Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) prepares for his mayoral bid, he faces conflicting stories surrounding a man's death. His assistant DA and

A disc jockey (Usher) must dodge gunfire instead of groupies when he becomes the bodyguard for a mobster's (Chazz Palminteri) beautiful daughter (Emmanuelle Chriqui).","large":"Mobster Frank (Chazz Palminteri) hires hip DJ Darrell (Usher) to man the turntables at a party for his gorgeous daughter, Dolly (Emmanuelle Chriqui). At the event, some crooks pull guns on the gangster, and Darrell steps in

A teen (Bobb'e J. Thompson) hopes to impress a girl he likes by winning a spot on his school's hottest dance crew.

After her son signs a contract with an NBA team, a woman invites friends and family to a wild barbecue at his new mansion.","large":"College basketball player Todd Anderson (Storm P) signs a $30 million deal with the New Jersey Nets and promptly moves to a wealthy suburb. His mother (Jenifer Lewis), however, insists that Todd remain connected to his humbler roots. So Todd decides to hold a good ol

The lives of a gifted athlete (Wesley Jonathan) and his best friend (Anthony Mackie) change when they take a fateful trip to Los Angeles.

Tubman is a slave whose new owner claims to be a fair man, but treats her harshly; she finds inspiration to escape for freedom in the North.

At the risk of recapture, Harriet Tubman helps organize the Underground Railroad, which enables hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the North.

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

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

Conflicting evidence leads a federal agent (Guy Pearce) to question the motives behind a former Special Ops soldier's (Don Cheadle) apparent ties to terrorist groups.","large":"When straight-arrow agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) assumes command of a special FBI task force, he becomes entangled in a web of covert operations. All the clues in Clayton's investigation point to Samir Horn (Don Cheadle),

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 suave Los Angeles detective (Billy Dee Williams) and his quirky partner (Robert Carradine) hunt a drug lord who has social clout.","large":"Detectives Barzak (Robert Carradine) and Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) 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 dis

When his brother is killed, LAPD officer Mark leaves the city to return to the island he grew up on. Seeking answers and vengeance, he soon finds himself in a bloody battle with the corrupt tycoon who's taken over the island paradise.

On their way to a boxing match, four young men take a wrong turn in Chicago and find danger as witnesses to murder.","large":"New father Frank (Emilio Estevez) departs for a night out, joining friends Mike (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Ray (Jeremy Piven) as they head to a boxing match. At the last minute, they are joined by John (Stephen Dorff), Frank's brother. Stuck in gridlock traffic, the guys take a

A former sailor (Ossie Davis) recounts the story of black crew members aboard the USS Mason during World War II.","large":"In the 1990s, Lorenzo DuFau tells the story of the USS Mason, the historic World War II battleship with an entirely segregated black crew. Aware of their deadly mission, the sailors aboard the USS Mason engage in fierce combat and fight to defend their country, despite the ove

DeAndre (Jayceon Taylor) becomes involved in a computer chip scheme, and his girlfriend is charged with the crime and placed under house arrest.

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 (Robert Carradine) and Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) 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 dis

A big-time drug dealer sends his bodyguard (Sam Elliott) to stop a Los Angeles policewoman (Whoopi Goldberg) who's bad for business.","large":"Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug,

Power figures want a Caribbean police chief (Denzel Washington) to find his friend Maubee (Robert Townsend), their scapegoat for a murder.","large":"Police chief Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially croo

Three women (Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes) conspire to steal a pile of cash that the Federal Reserve Bank has earmarked for destruction.","large":"After her husband loses his job, upper-crust housewife Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) is forced to take a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo. Spotting a weakness in the bank's security system, Bridget convinces

A Chicago man (Mike Epps) moves his family to Beverly Hills, Calif., on the same day when all crime becomes legal for a 12-hour period.","large":"When some unexpected money comes his way, Carl Black moves his family from cold and windy Chicago to bright and sunny Beverly Hills, Calif. As the Blacks settle into their beautiful new home, they start to notice some strange behavior in the neighborhood

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