Dark Girls

2011

English

7.6

♡ 1

77%

Bill Duke Director

Kirk Bovill as Self

Joni Bovill as Self

Viola Davis as Self

Cheryl Grills as Self

Documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark-skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.

Soft & Quiet

2022

English

6.2

♡ 16

84%

Beth de Araújo Director

Jon Beavers as Craig

Stefanie Estes as Emily

Dana Millican as Kim

Olivia Luccardi as Leslie

Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.

Clean Slate

1981

French

7.3

♡ 9

88%

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Stéphane Audran as Huguette / Lucien's wife

Gérard Hernandez as Leonelli

Philippe Noiret as Lucien Cordier

Isabelle Huppert as Rose Marcaillou

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Running Scared

2006

English

7.3

♡ 88

41%

79%

Action

bratva (russian mafia)

Wayne Kramer Director

Paul Walker as Joey Gazelle

David Warshofsky as Lester the Pimp

Ivana Milicevic as Mila Yugorsky

Vera Farmiga as Teresa Gazelle

A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.

Stamped from the Beginning

2023

English

6.7

♡ 3

100%

65%

Action

based on novel or book

black history

Documentary

racism

Roger Ross Williams Director

Angela Davis as

Leer Leary as Abraham Lincoln

Alexa Rachelle as Harriet Jacobs

John Toon as Rebellious Jamestown Group

Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.

Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

2017

English

7.8

♡ 1

100%

John Ridley Director

Kevin Toshima as Self

Donald Jones as Self

Jung Lee as Self Kee Ha

Kee Ha as Self

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.

Fruitvale Station

2013

English

7.5

♡ 58

94%

87%

Action

based on a true story

Ryan Coogler Director

Kevin Durand as Officer Caruso

Chad Michael Murray as Officer Ingram

Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant

Melonie Diaz as Sophina

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

The Rabbi's Cat

2011

French

7.1

♡ 7

94%

parent child relationship

rabbi

racism

Joann Sfar Director

Alice Houri as Knidelette

Jacky Ido as Le Chef de la Tribu

Mathieu Amalric as Le prince

François Damiens as Le reporter

The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.

Mrs Mandela

6.4

winnie madikizela-mandela

Michael Samuels Director

Tongayi Chirisa as Arguing husband

David Morrissey as Maj. Theunis Swanepoel

Jakkie Groenewald as Prison Officer Gregory

Sophie Okonedo as Winnie Mandela

How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

2014

English

6.0

♡ 226

29%

Ridley Scott Director

Hiam Abbass as Bithia

Christian Bale as Moses

João Costa Menezes as Moses' Army

María Valverde as Zipporah

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

The Help

2011

English

8.1

♡ 151

75%

89%

Action

based on novel or book

Tate Taylor Director

Jessica Chastain as Celia Foote

Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly Holbrook

Ashley Johnson as Mary Beth Caldwell

Emma Stone as Skeeter Phelan

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1969

English

8.2

♡ 4

Sidney Lumet Director

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self

Jesse Jackson as Self

Tony Bennett as Self

Joanne Woodward as Self

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Uproar

2023

English

6.7

♡ 6

100%

Paul Middleditch Director

Minnie Driver as

Julian Dennison as Josh Waaka

Mark Mitchinson as Principal Slane

Mana Hira Davis as Riot Police Chief

A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.

Rampart

2011

English

5.8

♡ 26

74%

Oren Moverman Director

Steve Buscemi as Bill Blago

Jon Bernthal as Dan Morone

Woody Harrelson as David Douglas Brown

Harriet Sansom Harris as Stacy Cranston

The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.

White Riot

2019

English

7.2

♡ 4

100%

Rubika Shah Director

Eric Clapton as Self

David Bowie as Self

Mick Jones as Self

Joe Strummer as Self

Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to take on the National Front, armed only with a fanzine and a love of music.

Serial

2024

French

6.1

♡ 5

Philippe de Chauveron Director

Christian Clavier as Claude Verneuil

Frédérique Bel as Isabelle Verneuil épouse Benassem

Philippe Beglia as Le directeur de la banque

Julia Piaton as Odile Verneuil épouse Benichou

Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.

Power

2024

English

6.1

79%

Yance Ford Director

Bill Clinton as Self - 42nd President of the United States

Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States

Joe Biden as Self - 46th President of the United States

Huey P. Newton as Self - Black Panther Party

Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.

Convicts

1991

English

5.7

♡ 4

35%

Peter Masterson Director

John McConnell as Guard #1

Lukas Haas as Horace Robedaux

Mel Winkler as Jackson

Robert Duvall as Soll Gautier

In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.

Láska je láska

6.2

grandparent grandchild relationship

Milan Cieslar Director

Jakub Slégr as

Petr Vancura as Honza Fuks

Ondrej Vetchý as Karel Fuks

Jaromír Nosek as Radek Frolík

Maruska is a blind girl and student at the Conservatory of Music who dreams of love and having a family despite her blindness. Her dream guy has curly blonde hair and blue eyes but she ends up falling in love with the dark eyed, swarthy Marek. Maruska lives with her overly protective grandfather whom is preocupied with his long-lost love. Maruska’s neighbor and best friend is constantly struggling with his headstrong mother as she refuses to accept that her son is gay. She blames everyone else - even her husband - for her son's "deviation." The fate of all main characters is unexpectedly intertwined and told through humorous and touching situations laced with subtle irony and hyperbole. Just as in life, with its funny situations and difficult tests, unexpected revelations and surprising twists, all characters will experience times when they behave blindly and forget to listen to their hearts.