Cinematography: Ernest R. Dickerson

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Plot It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria....

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Angela Bassett · Albert Hall · Al Freeman Jr.

Plot Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm...

Direction Robert Townsend

Cast Eddie Murphy

Plot Eddie Murphy's second release of his live stand-up performances. He mainly focuses on the topics of divorce and relations between the sexes, but also goes into some of the problems...

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Spike Lee · Wesley Snipes · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into...

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Annabella Sciorra · Wesley Snipes · Spike Lee · Debi Mazar

Plot A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship...

Direction John McNaughton

Cast Eric Bogosian

Plot Performance artist/comedian Bogosian brings to hilarious life 10 separate oddball characters in a one-man-show. This profane, smart, crisply edited film will have you screaming for more.

Direction Peter Manoogian

Cast Gary Frank · Ray Parker Jr. · Jan-Michael Vincent · Frances Foster

Plot An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires".

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Tracy Camilla Johns · Tommy Redmond Hicks · John Canada Terrell · Ray Dowell

Plot The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit...

Direction Dick Wolf · Constantine Makris · Jace Alexander · Edwin Sherin

Cast Jerry Orbach · Paul Sorvino · Dennis Farina · S. Epatha Merkerson

Plot TV Series (1990-2010). 20 Seasons. 456 Episodes. In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet forever intertwined forces. There's the police...

Direction Frank de Palma · John Harrison · John Strysik · Theodore Gershuny

Cast Catherine Battistone · John Marzilli · Karen Shallo · Neil Kinsella

Plot TV Series (1984-1988). Each episode of this TV series depicts a short, strange tale...with a twist! With eerie stories vaguely reminiscent of 'The Twilight Zone,' viewers learn to appreciate that...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Joe Morton · Tom Wright · Caroline Aaron · Herbert Newsome

Plot A mute extraterrestrial with healing powers lands in New York, looking remarkably like an African American male. He quickly makes his way to Harlem, where he manages to fit in,...

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Laurence Fishburne · Giancarlo Esposito · Tisha Campbell · Ossie Davis

Plot A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.

Direction James Bond III

Cast James Bond III · Kadeem Hardison · Bill Nunn · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes...

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Robert Castle · Jane Castle Moulton · Kate Castle · Nancy Castle

Plot A documentary about Director Jonathan Demme's cousin, an Episcopalian minister in Harlem.

Direction Peter Wang

Cast Marc Hayashi · Maryann Urbano · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Peter Wang

Plot A naive young scientist unwittingly helps mobsters build a laser weapon, then has to try to reclaim it from them in this crime drama parody.

Direction Felix de Rooy

Cast Marianne Rolle · Dan Strayhorn · Cynthia Belgrave · Joanne Jacobson

Plot Set in Brooklyn, New York this Dutch film is based on a true story that appeared on a New York newspaper in 1980. Desirée lives in the past. A series...

Direction Len Anthony

Cast Al Lewis · Paul Borghese · Jennifer Delora · Kit Jones

Plot Two stories about witches getting ready to meet with the Devil, and a schoolteacher who never ages.

Direction Ernest R. Dickerson

Cast Josh Charles · Brandon Hammond · Roderick Pannell · Serena Lee

Plot The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.

Direction Felix de Rooy

Cast Nashaira Desbarida · Cliff San-A-Jong · Theu Boermans · Carol Brown Winkel

Plot Set in Curacao in the 1940s, Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story tells of the painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary...

Direction Michael Schultz

Cast Sheila E. · Joseph “Rev Run DMC” Simmons · Darryl McDaniels · Jason Mizell

Plot In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker has all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove records, including Run-D.M.C.,...