Clifton Powell
1) Fade Away
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Language
English
Description
In a city where the high school drop out rate is at its highest, a pre-destined path of murder, crime, and drug trafficking seems to be the only way of life for teenagers growing up in Liberty City. Kenny, a young basketball star, is one of the few teens that breaks away from the social constraints by dismissing the peer pressure of joining a gang. Kenny accepts a scholarship to play college basketball at one of the states top universities. However,...
2) Interludes
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Language
English
Description
This story is based on the real life events of three incarcerated women as they detail traumatic events from their love lives. It's about the complicated relationships, from the first love to last, and how life events shape our hearts.
5) The Hills
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Language
English
Description
Attorney Lee makes a decision to defend the killer of his one time best friend Jeremiah Matthews SR. The killer is also on trial for trying to kill his best friends son Jeremiah Matthews JR a few years later. Through this journey Attorney Lee finds himself in a fight for his life.
6) Ray
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. From his humble beginnings through his meteoric rise to the top of American music charts, Ray's inspirational journey is a story of hope, redemption and the power of the human spirit.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.
8) Worth
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Language
English
Description
Ricky, a top contender in Muay Thai Kickboxing, trains for the title belt while dealing with new relationships, money problems, and family drama.
10) Norbit
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mild-mannered Norbit has a second chance at love with his childhood sweetheart, but the one major obstacle standing in his way is jealous Rasputia, his larger-than-life fiancee.
12) Prodigal
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Language
English
Description
In a gritty city, a conflicted individual faces a tough choice between dangerous streets and caring for a disabled sibling. Love, family, and danger collide as they navigate their future.
13) Preacher's Kid
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Language
English
Description
Tired of her life as a minister's daughter and longing to experience more of the world, a 20-something young woman with the talent to enthrall people with her voice joins a gospel show but discovers that life on the road isn't what she had imagined. Now, she fears going home with nothing to show for herself, or worse, to a father who no longer loves her... In this modern retelling of the story of the "Prodigal Son" set to a Gospel sound track, young...
14) Bones
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A notorious street hustler is mistakenly brought back from the dead after some kids buy the house he was killed in over 20 years before. Now he is seeking revenge on those who murdered him.
15) Boxed In
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Language
English
Description
Ria is an up and coming female boxer whose one and only focus is to be the best boxer alive. That's until she meets Tuga, who shows her that a life without love really isn't a life at all.
16) Bones
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Language
English
Description
Ignoring the warnings of a local clairvoyant, young, urban entrepreneurs planning to open a nightclub in a decrepit building on the wrong side of the tracks run afoul of the ghost of Jimmy Bones, who has returned more than 20 years after his death to seek revenge against those who killed him and to clean up his old neighborhood.
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English
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What happens when three sisters find out they stand to inherit a multimillion-dollar fortune, and in the process discover a half-sister their estranged father never told them about? In this powerful and inspirational musical stage play, three women experience a roller-coaster ride of emotions as they confront their father's death, long-buried family secrets and the startling revelation of an affair that almost tore their parents' marriage apart.
18) The North Star
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English
Description
Based on a true story of courage and the will to be free. For black slaves Big Ben (Jeremiah Trotter) and Moses (Thomas C. Bartley, Jr.), the only thing worse than the daily cruelty of life on a Virginia plantation is the fear of being hunted down and tortured as runaways. But when Ben learns he is about to be sold to a new owner, he and Moses make the desperate choice to run. Evading brutal slave hunters and with only the light of the North Star...
20) Deep Rising
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Language
English
Description
From the depths of the south China sea, creatures attack and cannibalize the passengers on a luxury cruise liner. For the few survivors remaining on board who are able to elude the bone-crushing forces, a living nightmare awaits them at every turn.