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Summary: Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 946,154
International: $ 121,031,357
Summary: In 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football's tradition was put to the ...
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 115,719,751
International: $ 21,051,932
Summary: A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Runtime: 2 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 98,467,863
International: $ 239
Summary: The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
Runtime: 2 h 32 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 75,331,600
International: $ 48,639,776
Summary: A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 30,236,407
International: $ 35,149
Summary: The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 39,100,956
Summary: In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 47,566,524
International: $ 16,083,005
Summary: Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 18,000,000
Domestic: $ 26,979,166
Summary: A seemingly perfect family looks to fix their problems with the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 67,790,117
International: $ 5,477,757
Summary: Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,500,000
Domestic: $ 57,504,069
International: $ 28,634
Summary: A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Runtime: 1 h 25 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 300,000
Domestic: $ 1,989
Summary: A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Franchise: Equalizer
Movie budget: $ 55,000,000
Domestic: $ 101,530,738
International: $ 90,800,000
Summary: After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 75,000,000
Domestic: $ 64,038,616
International: $ 116,518,934
Summary: Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 21,000,000
Domestic: $ 37,729,698
International: $ 252,286
Summary: A waitress desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: G

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 105,000,000
Domestic: $ 104,400,899
International: $ 162,655,917
Summary: A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 90,404,800
Summary: Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
Release Date: June 07, 1991
Genres: Drama, Romance
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 32,482,682
International: $ 11,400,000
Summary: A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 31,000,000
Domestic: $ 93,772,375
International: $ 68,000,000
Summary: Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, China
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 49,275,340
International: $ 44,138,369