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It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream.

R Thriller Suspense 2 hrs, 8 mins

  • 3.7 / 5
75% 25%

A businessman is ruined when he honorably pays ransom to kidnappers who mistakenly nabbed his driver’s son.

Drama Thriller

70% 30%
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Follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

Drama Thriller

  • 3.7 / 5
17% 83%

Denzel Washington stars as New York police detective Keith Miller, a tough, street-smart cop fighting for a promotion while trying to live down accusations of misconduct connected to his last case. When he and his partner are dispatched to the scene of an in-progress bank robbery and hostage crisis, Miller must face off against a well-educated criminal (Owen) masterminding a concisely plotted operation. As negotiations grow more strained, a powerful lawyer with mysterious ties (Foster) becomes involved in the crisis... and Miller slowly begins to realize that in this ultimate game of cat and mouse, rules are arbitrary, all roles are up for grabs and the black-and-white of right an wrong has blurred to a shadowy landscape of gray.

R Drama

  • 3.3 / 5
63% 38%
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A suspenseful heist thriller starring Aml Ameen (The Maze Runner) and Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul), Inside Man: Most Wanted is a gripping game of cat and mouse that will keep you guessing until the very end. An NYPD hostage negotiator (Ameen) forms an unlikely team with an FBI agent (Seehorn) to save hostages in a skillfully orchestrated copycat crime at the Federal Reserve Bank, led by a ruthlessly cunning bank robber (Roxanne McKee). With time working against them and innocent lives on the line, they must put their professional differences aside before they get trapped in a twisted web of lies.

R Drama Sequel 1 hr, 46 mins

77% 23%

Set in the 1980s hip-hop era, Tybalt and his Capulet crew navigate a violent Brooklyn where underground sword dueling with the Montagues blossoms alongside a vibrant music scene.

Drama Music

100% 0%
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An emotionally damaged FBI agent who must decipher historic events in a desperate race to avert a terrorist plot.

Action Thriller

60% 40%

From producer Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin, this revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an iconic actor, filmmaker and activist at the center of Hollywood and the Civil Rights Movement.

Documentary

  • 5 / 5
82% 18%

A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.

NR Drama Crime 1 hr, 30 mins

  • 1 / 5
81% 19%
  • 4 / 5
84% 16%

Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.

R Drama War 2 hrs, 40 mins

  • 3.4 / 5
29% 71%

"The Goal" follows the heart-wrenching journey of Topone, a young man who rises from the infamous favelas (ghettos) of Rio de Janeiro to become the number one soccer player in the world. During the Brazilian championship, tragedy strikes and Topone is in danger of losing his soccer career forever, when he is traded to the United States.

Drama Sports

50% 50%

Four African American veterans return to Vietnam decades after the war to find their squad leader's remains — and a stash of buried gold.

R Drama War

  • 1 / 5
100% 0%

Set in East Africa in 1928 and centers on Gordon Hemingway, a roguish Black American gunslinger.

Drama

86% 14%

A poor white girl and a black pimp who forge a partnership as killers for hire.

Crime

29% 71%

Tracks the story of Private Herman Perry, a black soldier from Washington who, after shooting another soldier, went on the run in the Indo-Burmese jungle and eventually became assimilated into tribal culture.

Drama War

90% 10%

An Atlanta resident spends the summer in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

R Drama 2 hrs, 15 mins

  • 3.3 / 5
27% 73%

High school best friends and science prodigies C.J. and Sebastian spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. But when C.J.’s older brother Calvin dies after an encounter with police officers, the young duo decide to put their unfinished tech to use in a desperate bid to save Calvin.

Adventure Sci-Fi

100% 0%

A man is given a chance to relive the worst day of his life in exchange for seven years off his life expectancy.

Drama Thriller

58% 42%

Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make "easy" money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a tryst. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for securities fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.

R Drama Comedy

67% 33%

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