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Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Prison films,
Films about racism,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Films about capital punishment,
Le boxe anglaiseActors Denzel Washington,
Vicellous Reon Shannon,
Deborah Kara Unger,
Liev Schreiber,
John Hannah,
Dan HedayaRating75%
The film tells the story of middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, whose conviction for a Paterson, New Jersey triple murder was set aside after he had spent nearly 20 years in prison. Narrating Carter's life, the film concentrates on the period between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly twenty years in prison., 1h49
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about racismActors Sidney Poitier,
Rod Steiger,
Warren Oates,
Lee Grant,
James Patterson,
William SchallertRating78%
Mr. Colbert, a wealthy man from Chicago who was planning to build a factory in Sparta, Mississippi, is found murdered. White police Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger) comes under pressure to quickly find his killer. African-American northerner Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), passing through town, is picked up at the train station between trains with a substantial amount of cash in his wallet. Gillespie, prejudiced against blacks, jumps to the conclusion that he has his culprit but is embarrassed to learn that Tibbs is an experienced Philadelphia homicide detective who is simply passing through town after visiting his mother. After the racist treatment that he receives, Tibbs wants nothing more than to leave as quickly as possible, but his own chief, after questioning whether Tibbs himself is prejudiced, has him stay and help. Leslie Colbert (Lee Grant), the victim's widow, already frustrated by the ineptitude of the local police, is impressed by Tibbs's expertise when he clears another wrongly accused suspect whom Gillespie has arrested on circumstantial evidence. She threatens to stop construction on the much needed factory unless Tibbs leads the investigation. Unwilling to accept help, but under orders from the town's mayor, Gillespie talks a reluctant Tibbs into working on the case., 1h48
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Bruce Willis,
Emily Lloyd,
Joan Allen,
John Terry,
Kevin Anderson,
Stephen TobolowskyRating58%
Recent high school graduate Samantha Hughes, 17, lives in fictional Hopewell, Kentucky with her uncle Emmett Smith, a laid-back Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam at 21 after marrying and impregnating Samantha's mother, Irene. Samantha finds some old photographs, medals, and letters of her father, and becomes obsessed with finding out more about him., 2h25
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ActionThemes Mafia films,
Transport films,
Films about the labor movement,
Trucker films,
L'Outfit de Chicago,
Political films,
Road movies,
Gangster filmsActors Sylvester Stallone,
Rod Steiger,
Peter Boyle,
Melinda Dillon,
David Huffman,
Kevin ConwayRating64%
At a loading dock in Cleveland, Ohio in 1937, supervisor Mr. Gant welcomes a new worker, Lincoln Dombrowsky (Frank McRae). Gant tells him the job requirements and pay rules. He'll be paid for working 8 hours and if he has to work overtime, he still gets paid only for 8 hours. If he drops any of the merchandise, the cost comes directly out of his pay. These are examples of unfair working practices faced by the laborers. Later Dombrowsky drops a few carts of tomatoes, which is taken out of his pay; another worker is fired for helping him collect the fallen merchandise. Johnny Kovak (Sylvester Stallone), another worker resentful of mistreatment, leads a riot. Afterward, the workers go to the office of Boss Andrews. Kovak believes he negotiates a deal for the workers, but the next day he and his friend Abe Belkin (David Huffman) are told they are fired., 2h6
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres War,
Comedy,
ActionThemes Military humor in film,
Seafaring films,
Politique,
Transport films,
Underwater action films,
Submarine films,
Musical films,
Political filmsActors Alan Arkin,
Carl Reiner,
Eva Marie Saint,
Brian Keith,
Jonathan Winters,
Theodore BikelRating69%
A Russian submarine called Спрут ("Octopus") draws too close to the New England coast one morning when its captain (Theodore Bikel) wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near the fictional Gloucester Island, which, from other references in the movie, is located off the coast of Cape Ann or Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party, headed by his zampolit (Political Officer) Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to find a motor launch to help free the submarine from the bar. The men arrive at the house of Walt Whittaker (Carl Reiner), a vacationing playwright from New York City. Whittaker is eager to get his wife Elspeth (Eva Marie Saint) and two children, obnoxious but precocious nine and half-year-old Pete (Sheldon Collins) and three-year-old Annie (Cindy Putnam), off the island now that summer is over., 2h
Directed by Norman JewisonOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Social science fiction,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Films set in the future,
Roller derby,
Political films,
Dystopian filmsActors James Caan,
John Houseman,
Maud Adams,
John Beck,
Moses Gunn,
Ralph RichardsonRating64%
The film follows Jonathan E. (James Caan), the veteran star of the Houston rollerball team. By virtue of his stellar performance over the years, Jonathan has become the most recognizable Rollerballer in history; everyone recognizes him on sight. This is problematic for the hegemonic corporations. After another impressive performance in Houston's victory over the Madrid team, Energy Corporation chairman Mr. Bartholomew (John Houseman) announces that the corporation, running out of ways to reward its champion, will feature Jonathan in a "multivision" special devoted to his career., 2h34
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Feminist films,
Films about racism,
Films about sexuality,
Bisexuality-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about domestic violence,
Political films,
Films about child abuse,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Danny Glover,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Margaret Avery,
Oprah Winfrey,
Adolph Caesar,
Rae Dawn ChongRating77%
Taking place in the Southern United States between Winter 1909 and Autumn 1937, the movie tells the life of a poor African American woman named Celie Harris (Whoopi Goldberg) whose abuse begins when she is young. By the time she is 14, she has already had two children by her father Alphonso "James" Harris (Leonard Jackson). He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces the young Celie (Desreta Jackson) to marry a wealthy young local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as "Mister" (Danny Glover), who treats her like a slave. Albert makes her clean up his disorderly household and take care of his unruly children. Albert beats and rapes her often, intimidating Celie into submission and near silence. Celie's sister Nettie (Akosua Busia) comes to live with them, and there is a brief period of happiness as the sisters spend time together and Nettie begins to teach Celie how to read. This is short-lived; after Nettie refuses Albert's predatory affections once too often, he kicks her out. Before being run off by Albert, Nettie promises to write to Celie saying, "Nothing but death can keep me from it!"., 2h2
Directed by Edward ZwickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
WesternThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racism,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Matthew Broderick,
Denzel Washington,
Cary Elwes,
Morgan Freeman,
Andre Braugher,
Cliff De YoungRating77%
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the Battle of Antietam and sent home to Boston on medical leave. He visits his family there, where he meets the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave. Shaw is offered a promotion to the rank of Colonel to command the first all-black regiment in the Union Army, the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He accepts and asks his childhood friend, 2nd Lieutenant Cabot Forbes, to serve as his second in command, with the rank of major. Their first volunteer is another friend, Thomas Searles, a bookish free African American. Other recruits soon follow, including gravedigger John Rawlins, timid freeman Jupiter Sharts and Silas Trip, an escaped slave who does not trust Shaw. Trip instantly clashes with Searles and Rawlins must keep the peace., 2h37
Directed by Ridley ScottOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
Mob film,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Films about racism,
Hip hop films,
Political films,
Gangster filmsActors Denzel Washington,
Russell Crowe,
Ted Levine,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Josh Brolin,
RZARating77%
In 1968, Frank Lucas, the limo driver-turned-right-hand man of Harlem gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, inherits Johnson's gang when Johnson dies of a heart attack. Disliking the new, flashy gangsters of the neighborhood, Lucas decides to take control of Harlem's crime scene., 1h56
Directed by Edward ZwickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about terrorism,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Denzel Washington,
Annette Bening,
Bruce Willis,
Tony Shalhoub,
David Proval,
Aasif MandviRating63%
Following the bombing of an American military installation in the Middle East (the film shows footage from the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing), the U.S. government orchestrates the capture of the mastermind believed to be behind the attack, Sheikh Ahmed bin Talal. In New York City FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard (Washington) and his Lebanese-American partner Frank Haddad (Shalhoub) are told of a hijacked bus, fully loaded with passengers and containing an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists manage to escape. The FBI receives demands to release the sheikh.