Laurence Fishburne
2) The Colony
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Years ago, winter came and left. Survivors have tried to build a new society underground, but they soon learn the real danger is not from the ice and cold, but from their fellow survivors.
3) Imprisoned
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In the thriller, IMPRISONED, Dylan Burke (Juan Pablo Raba), attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria (Juana Acosta). He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin (Laurence Fishburne), has not forgiven him for an old crime. Calvin does everything in his power to make sure that Burke pays for his past mistakes, even going as far as to frame...
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Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), from south Los Angeles, has a talent for words. In spite of the objections of her mother Wanda (Angela Bassett), Keke enters a spelling contest. Her gift takes her to compete in the National Spelling Bee, the most famous competition of its kind in the world. On the way, she is helped by a forthright, mysterious teacher, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) and a cast of colorful characters from the community.
5) Deep Cover
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From the director of A Rage in Harlem comes Deep Cover, an action police thriller in the explosive style of the classic The French Connection. Laurence Fishburne (Boys N The Hood, The Matrix) stars as an undercover cop who uses drug-dealing attorney Jeff Goldblum (The Big Chill, Jurassic Park) to bring down a major drug supplier. Fishburne and Goldblum deliver dynamic performances in this critically acclaimed box-office smash that "surpasses even...
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Between 1939 and 2002, Black actors and Actresses received a combined total of 30 Academy Award nominations – only a handful made the odyssey to the podium to possess the Golden Man. This special program is filled with rare footage, photographs and long lost trailers of performances in Oscar recognized films from "Gone with the Wind" to "Monster's Ball".
10) The matrix
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English
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A computer hacker discovers that reality is nothing more than an elaborate facade called the Matrix, created by super-intelligent robots that have enslaved mankind and are using their bodies as a power source. The reality is that the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun to control humans.
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NBC Universal Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the way, playing a game all his own, while they work to unravel...
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"In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley."--Jacket.
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English
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Neo discovers that somehow he is able to use his powers in the real world and that his mind can be freed from his body. As a result of which he finds himself trapped on a train station between the Matrix and the Real World. Meanwhile, Zion is preparing for the oncoming war with the machines with little chance of survival. Neo's associates set out to free him from The Merovingian since it's believed that he is the One who will end the war between humans...
15) Contagion
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
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English
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Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Not much time separates the last human enclave on Earth from the 250,000 Sentinels programmed to destroy humankind. But the citizens of Zion, emboldened by Morpheus' conviction that the One will fulfill the Oracles Prophecy and end the war with the Machines. This rests all manner of hope and expectation on Neo, who finds himself stalled by...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Hannibal is on the run in Europe, accompanied by his psychiatrist, Bedelia Du Maurier, sporting a new identity, but servicing the same insatiable appetite. As the lives of Will and Jack converge toward Hannibal again, each with their own motivations to catch him once and for all, their deadly dance turns in startling and unexpected ways.
18) Rudderless
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Sam, a former high-profile ad executive, is devastated by the sudden death of his musician son. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes, the grieving father's downward spiral comes to a standstill as he explores this unexpected gift. After mustering the will to perform one of the songs at a local bar, Sam meets and forms a friendship with Quentin a young musician. The unlikely duo forms a rock band that becomes a local sensation....
19) 21
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben...
20) Standoff
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a twelve-year-old girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder.