Shades of Black

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 student composer (Rae Dawn Chong) inspires South Bronx residents to new heights in break dancing, rap music and graffiti.","large":"At the forefront of early hip-hop culture, DJ Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis), his B-boy brother, Lee (Robert Taylor), and graffiti artist Ramon (John Chardiet) all have hopes of showcasing their talents outside the confines of South Bronx, N.Y. When Tracy Carlson (Rae D

Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) quits her job dancing in a chorus line in Los Angeles and goes home. Ignoring her father's wishes, Kelly teams up with her friends for a break-dancing benefit show to save an endangered community center.","large":"Disappointed with her small part in the chorus line of a Los Angeles show, jazz dancer Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) quits and heads home. Her father (John Christy Ewing)

A hostage negotiator plays a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a cornered bank robber who is hell-bent on getting out of the bank and humiliating the negotiator in the process.

A former Marine (Michael Jai White) travels to Brazil to hunt down the brutal Japanese mobsters who attacked his sister and left her for dead.

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

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

Two high-school pals (Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hang out, face a teacher and flee the police in 1964 urban Chicago.","large":"Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), a local basketball hero, and Leroy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Turman), who dreams of a career in writing, are likable Chicago high school students in Chicago in the 1960s. They're into hanging out with friends, pre