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Plot Summary:
When the romantic secrets of his family members become public, the career and community standing of a respected bishop are threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Personals (1999)
Plot Summary:
Romance - Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. The research takes him beyond his wildest expectations. Keith's world begins to unravel when he meets a girl who sees right through him. Can his cool be liquefied by a funny thing called love? Is this true happiness or is it the prelude to a core meltdown? - Malik Yoba, Stacey Dash, Monteria Ivey.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pipe Dreams (1976)
Plot Summary:
Pipe Dreams is a 1976 film starring soul singer Gladys Knight in her acting debut as a woman who attempts to regain the love of her husband played by real-life spouse Barry Hankerson. In this drama, her husband must choose between reuniting with her or giving in to pressure of the local boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tiffanie is about to have the wedding of her dreams to her soul mate, the dashing Damon King, founder of King Enterprises. But when Damon’s old friend Trey arrives, fresh from prison to step in as Damon’s best man, Tiffanie’s whole world gets rocked. Sexy and mysterious, Trey triggers a passion in Tiffanie that she never expected, and suddenly the life she’s always planned with Damon is uncertain.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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I Love You Too (2009)
Plot Summary:
Have you ever been tempted to fall in love with your best friend? Well meet Whitney. When she is down on her luck with guys she turns to the one person who understands her, Dawson. His advice wasn't doing nothing but taking her heart. For Whitney finding love is hard but for Charles and Vanessa keeping love is the hardest. Charles and Vanessa is the image of a couple with deep love and wealth. All the time apart from each other leads Charles to devilish temptation. After spending a lot of time with his sexy business partner, Mrs. Denis, and his breathtaking secretary he gives into temptation. His life gets turn upside down when he decides to engage in a sexual encounter with one of the two. Charles quickly sees everything he worked so hard for is about to vanish in the blink of an eye. Will he get himself out of this disarray? This group of Miami's elite will go through all the modern day trial and tribulation. As they are facing obstacles, each of them must use every tactic possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, student film, post modern
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Keys to the City (2019)
Plot Summary:
A widower from Bankhead, Russell Savage, is diligently running to become the youngest Mayor in the history of Atlanta. His opponent is August King, the man who has raised Russell and his brother as his own since they were kids. But when the beautiful Avery Long joins the campaign, Russell finds himself fighting to sustain everything he's worked for including his campaign for Mayor, and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Trophy Wife (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows Toni, who has a complete breakdown and ends up in a mental facility after the unexpected news that his husband was murdered, and even her was a suspect. She must now fight to clear her name and figure out who betrayed her husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Playing with Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Interludes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Interludes" 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, detective, hood
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We Are Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
Six strangers (of different backgrounds, cultures, and economic statuses) are invited to a mysterious home, each for different reasons. With nothing in common, they soon find out that they are actually brothers and sisters. The father they never knew about has died. As a part of his last will and testament, he will spread his millions equally amongst them, if they are willing to spend the next 24 hours together. All hell is about to break loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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And Then There Was You (2013)
Plot Summary:
Newly divorced Natalie, who’s soured on relationships, meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Cru (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open olds wounds, expose long-hidden secrets -- and pave the road to forgiveness and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Butterfly Rising (2011)
Plot Summary:
When her brother dies, singer Lilah Belle sets out to escape her grief and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the new-to-town, most scandalous woman in Artesia, Rose Johnson, to go with her. These two broken souls steal a vintage truck and head out on the open road to a fated encounter with the mythical, magical 'Lazarus of the Butterflies'. What occurs with the strange Butterfly Man transforms their destinies and binds the women together - forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Gabrielle seems to have it all - a devoted husband, a beautiful daughter, and a successful career in public relations. However, she soon stands to lose everything when she meets Keisha, her devious half sister who wants everything Gabrielle has.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Part 2, Sounder (1976)
Plot Summary:
Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Grandma's House (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based upon the true story of Kimberley T. Zulkowski's Grandmother, Margie Ree Harris. "Grandma's House" gives a compelling insight into how the Executive Producer's life changed when she moved into her Grandmother's home, and their generations became one under the same roof. Chock-full of passion, Faith, and Family, the Film demonstrates the trials and tribulations she faced living with a Grandparent who stood as an inner-city Matriarch and Pillar of Strength to selflessly serve her Family, and surrounding community.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Twist of Faith (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jacob Fisher, an Orthodox Jewish Cantor and amateur songwriter who resides in Brooklyn, New York, witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three children. Catatonic, Jacob walks out on his Jewish mourning ritual, leaving behind his Jewish garments, wallet and keys. Abandoning his identity, he wanders aimlessly, hoping somehow to understand his tragedy. Fortuitously, he lands in Brent, Alabama (population 2,500), where he is embraced by Nina, a single mother and the lead singer of a small gospel choir, her Uncle Moe and their gospel community.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing
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Mountain Top (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer-turned-preacher living in a small Appalachian town is pursued by an eccentric man to represent him in court. Now involved in a case that ties into his own small-town life, the former attorney agrees to help a man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Really Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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The Good Life (2012)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Nolen's "The Good Life" is the story of Jacques and Marianne Vandelay, a highly successful African American couple. They are happy but both are keeping dark secrets from each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, suspense, dark
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the night of the 2016 Presidential election, Cass, an L.A. club promoter, takes a thrilling and emotional journey with Frida, a Midwestern visitor. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams - while he pushes her to discover hers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, political
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Boy Bye (2016)
Plot Summary:
Veronica Love seems to have it all...she's smart, sassy and sexy and has a career as one of the most successful real estate entrepreneurs in California. Affectionately known as Love by her girlfriends Beverly and Charity, Love also happens to be happily single and loving every minute of it. She has no shortage of flings with the many boy toys and playthings that cross her path all because she doesn't believe in true love. Enter the sexy and mysterious business acquaintance Lance Peterson. Love has never felt this way about any man before and thinks that he could possibly be "the one" as their feelings for one another grow deeper by the moment. Lance is harboring a few tightly-wound deep secrets of his own that soon unravel and are revealed to her. Will his shocking revelation be enough to bring Love's world crashing down around her or will Love be able to survive his secrets with her heart still intact?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, romantic comedy
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The Bounce Back (2016)
Plot Summary:
Father, author and relationship expert, Matthew Taylor is on a whirlwind book tour promoting his new best seller, The Bounce Back. He's got it all figured out until he meets the acerbic Kristin Peralta, a talk show circuit therapist who's convinced he's nothing but a charlatan. Matthew's life is turned upside down when he inadvertently falls for Kristin and has to face painful truth of his past relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic
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The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
Plot Summary:
A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, black cinema
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Georgia, Georgia (1972)
Plot Summary:
The great Diana Sands stars as a African American pop star with few political ideas, and no need for black-activist war deserters who want her voice for their cause--much to the dismay of the quietly seething white-hating Minnie Gentry. Georgia's mother-figure and companion fears for Georgia's soul--in every sense of the word. Written by Maya Angelou (but made on a low budget), this is a significant, powerfully radical movie-of-ideas in need of rediscovery. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Warm December (1973)
Plot Summary:
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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The Man in 3B (2015)
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Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. Connie (Brely Evans), an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage. But when Daryl starts making Connie feel beautiful again, she questions whether her marriage is worth saving. Benny (Robert Ri'chard), a spoiled teenager raised by a single father, looks up to Daryl. When an unexpected event occurs, Benny is left questioning everything he's ever known to be true. Krystal (Nafessa Williams), Daryl's first love, wants to make things work with her current boyfriend. Yet having Daryl back in her life sends her happy home spiraling out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Not Easily Broken (2009)
Plot Summary:
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, inspirational, romantic, independent film, romantic drama
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The Wedding (1998)
Plot Summary:
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
Plot Summary:
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, political, social, black and white, aesthetic, sincere, thought provoking, clever, touching, serious