Shades of Black

A thief is betrayed after a well done job in Detroit. Returning to Chicago, he decides on revenge. Things escalate.","large":"Macklin (Alec Baldwin), a hit man with a passion for rare jazz records, accepts what he thinks is a routine job. The hit turns out to be a setup, though, because Pointy (Michael Jai White), an up-and-coming gangster, wants Macklin out of the way. When Macklin realizes who's

Inspired by his mother (Nell Carter) and a priest (George Kennedy) in Philadelphia, he (Victor Love) rises to basketball All-American at Loyola Marymount.

A campus culture war between blacks and whites at a predominantly white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.

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

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.

Former gang members (Fred Williamson, Jim Brown) return to depressed Gary, Ind., to quell violence perpetrated by their successors.","large":"Successful Los Angeles football coach John Bookman (Fred Williamson) returns home to Gary, Ind., when his father is murdered. Discovering the town overrun with violent street gangs, John is even more horrified to learn his father was shot by a member of the

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