Nia Long
1) Missing
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When the mother of a young woman goes missing with her boyfriend while vacationing in Columbia, she fears the worse. Although she is thousands of miles away, she uses everything in her power to get answers. After getting stonewalled and running into miles of international red tape, the young woman relies on her wit and savvy to find the answers. As time runs out, can she get the proof she needs to find her mother?
3) Mooz-Lum
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Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.
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When Nick falls for single mother Suzanne, he initially doesn't have to worry about what her kids think of him because she just wants to be friends. Undeterred by this statement, or his buddies who dog him for loitering in the stalking-friend zone, Nick keeps hanging around. When Suzanne finds herself in a jam and needs someone to escort her kids to meet her in Vancouver for New Year's Eve, Nick opens the door of opportunity. It could be the best...
5) Beaches
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In this contemporary remake, it follows the serendipitous meeting of two young girls on the Venice Beach Boardwalk who, though worlds apart in lifestyle, embark on an unexpected and lifelong friendship. CC is an aspiring singer trying to make it in Los Angeles when a director who gives her first big shot discovers her. Hillary, the daughter of a prominent civil rights lawyer, is struggling to find her own destiny.
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"Crafty FBI agent Malcom Turner [is] willing to go through thick and thing in order to catch an escaped federal prisoner....The con's sexy former flame--she might have the skinny on millions in stolen bank loot, and she's headed for Georgia to lay low for a while. That's enough to send Malcolm deep underocver as Big Momma, an oversized, overbearing Southern granny with an attitude as tough as her pork chops." --container
8) Boiler room
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Seth Davis is a 19-year-old college dropout who strives for approval from his father, a judge who is horrified that his son operates a 24-hour illicit casino. When an old friend visits the casino with a fellow broker, Davis is impressed by their wads of money and yellow Ferrari, and decides to join the firm. In no time he's making sales and settling into the groove of the office and all the after-hours perks, but the dream fades when Davis discovers...
9) Friday
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"Just another day. But what a day. A day that shows a lighter side to life in the 'hood...It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday." --container.
10) Baadasssss!
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A candid portrait of Melvin Van Peeble's struggles as a young, black director during the society-shifting 70's. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin deals with two-faced backers, a rag-tag crew, threatening creditors, and various shades of Hollywood hypocrisy. With everything on the line, his only choice is to stick to his guns and do whatever it takes to get his neo-blaxploitation epic to the audience for which it was envisioned.
11) Gospel Hill
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In the town of Julia, the residents of the black neighborhood of Gospel Hill, are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar golf course development. Thirty years ago Peter Malcolm, a black civil rights activist, was assassinated and race relations in the town have been strained ever since. Dr. Ron Palmer is an influential black community leader who is supporting the development. John Malcolm, Peter's brother, withdrew from...
12) Are We Done Yet?
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"After Nick Persons brings his new wife Suzanne and her two kids to live with him in his bachelor pad apartment, he soon realizes there just isn't enough space for all of them. With a new baby on the way, the Persons family leaves city life behind for the wide-open country. Unfortunately, their dream house starts to fall apart around them, so Nick tries to do-it-himself - and end up in over his head. But when he hires wacky contractor Chuck, whose...
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Set in different decades in the same house, these stories of three lesbian couples each reflect a specific concern. In 1961, Abby and Edith, two retired schoolteachers, lead a quiet life. Abby has a stroke and dies, and her nephew and his wife come for the funeral and to sort and sell Abby's things, unaware that she and Edith were a lifelong couple. In 1972, four college-age lesbians share the house. They have problems with the campus feminism group,...
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah's million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever.
Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She's eager to pay back her enemies,...
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah's million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever.
Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She's eager to pay back her enemies,...
15) Mooz-lum
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Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.