Love and Other Four Letter Words

7.6

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

1967-12-11 | en

6.8

Rent

This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.

2005-11-17 | en

0.0

Sweet Potato Pie

Taking its cue from the successful American Pie franchise, Dale Steely's sex comedy Sweet Potato Pie follows the exploits of three friends named Chuck, Perry, and Trey. The threesome set out on a road trip in order to try and shed their pesky virginity, and end up involved with a sexually seasoned woman named Anaconda, a horny and very overweight neighbor, and the title food.

2004-07-04 | en

5.6

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. Ultimately, charm, lust and passion prevail, but Darnell learns the hard way that when you play, you pay. Brandi is much harder to get rid of than she was to get--especially when she realizes that she has a rival vying for Darnell's affection. When he finally decides to call it quits, Brandi becomes an obsessed femme fatale stalking the new love of her life.

1996-04-04 | en

7.5

Love Jones

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

1997-03-14 | en

6.7

Slacker

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

1991-07-05 | en

6.6

G

A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections.

2002-05-10 | en

5.7

Bebe's Kids

When Robin meets the lovely Jamika he thinks he's in heaven. But when he meets her friend Bebe's children, whom she is looking after, he knows he's in hell.

1992-07-31 | en

0.0

Wash It Up

Three women seeking fame and fortune as singers in a band called Har-mo-ny toil in a car wash until they get their big break. Chris, the leader of the group, must manage both her career and her love life. The girls interact with a motley crew of co-workers and customers, but soon my get their chance to leave the car wash behind when a DJ offers them the possibility to go on tour.

2003-02-04 | en

0.0

Homecoming

Five college friends spend Homecoming weekend at they house they used to live in when attending school. Five friends, who attended a Historically Black University together in the 90's, spend Homecoming weekend at the house that was once their off-campus dorm.

2013-11-05 | en

6.1

Uptown Saturday Night

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

1974-07-26 | en

7.7

A Raisin in the Sun

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

1961-05-28 | en

6.3

Heavy Traffic

An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.

1973-08-08 | en

6.0

CB4

A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...

1993-03-12 | en

5.4

The Great American Broadcast

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.

1941-05-09 | en

3.9

Misconceptions

The story centers on a religiously conservative, married southern woman who receives a message from God instructing her to act as a surrogate mother and carry a child for two married gay men who live in Boston - a Jewish doctor and and African-American dance choreographer. All Hell breaks loose when the African American man comes to her home down south to micro-manage her pregnancy, and he won't leave.

2010-01-22 | en

5.4

Downsizing

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

2017-12-22 | en

6.0

Being Black Enough

A young Black man, raised in a White neighborhood, ridiculed for not being "Black enough" decides to go to the hood to hang out with his gangster cousin and discover what it really means to be "Black." He eventually faces the harsh reality of gang violence, drugs and police confrontation.

2018-02-16 | en

6.2

Good Deeds

For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.

2012-02-23 | en

5.9

Jumping the Broom

Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

2011-05-06 | en

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