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Summary: Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,492,203
International: $ 116,271,443
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Summary: In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
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Summary: Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that...
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 208,588
International: $ 4,882,264
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Summary: With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 479,169
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Summary: A social movie about life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. Freddy i...
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000
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Summary: This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its member...
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 11,305
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Summary: Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,790,801
International: $ 228
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Summary: To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 12,344,000
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Summary: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Distributor: HBO Max
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Domestic: $ 54,733,739
International: $ 68,500,000
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Summary: Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in ReykjavĂ­k? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: Icelandic
Domestic: $ 126,404
International: $ 420,055
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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: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 47,566,524
International: $ 16,083,005
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Summary: Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.
Release Date: April 12, 2002
Genres: Drama, Biography
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 275,171
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Summary: The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney S...
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 200,000
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Summary: A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Runtime: 2 h 50 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 700,000
Domestic: $ 7,830,611
International: $ 4,000,000
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Summary: A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
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Summary: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,337,722
International: $ 6,873,453
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Summary: Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 21,458,229
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Summary: A perpetual state of welfare exists in the U.S., creating a form of modern slavery for a large percentage of African-Americans. Rev. C.L. Bryant presents an insightful and compelling look at how freedom can be restored.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Ground Floor Video
Countries: United States, Israel
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 71,737
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Summary: A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
Release Date: November 21, 1997
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,263,585
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Summary: A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,274,979
International: $ 188,671