Posts Tagged ‘race-relations’

Undercover Brother (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Griffin | Chris Kattan | Denise Richards | Aunjanue Ellis | Dave Chappelle | Chi McBride | Neil Patrick Harris | Gary Anthony Williams | Billy Dee Williams | Jack Noseworthy | Robert Trumbull | J.D. Hall | William B. Taylor | Shauna MacDonald | Ron Pardo
Directors: Malcolm D. Lee
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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization, The Man, defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) has a weird behavior in his presidential campaign, the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is hired to work undercover in the white organization and find what happened with the potential candidate.

The Scalphunters (1968)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Shelley Winters | Telly Savalas | Ossie Davis | Dabney Coleman | Paul Picerni | Dan Vadis | Armando Silvestre | Nick Cravat | Tony Epper | Chuck Roberson | John Epper | Jack Williams | Gregorio Acosta | Pedro Aguilar
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.

Bobby (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

Amistad (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Nigel Hawthorne | Anthony Hopkins | Djimon Hounsou | Matthew McConaughey | David Paymer | Pete Postlethwaite | Stellan Skarsgård | Razaaq Adoti | Abu Bakaar Fofanah | Anna Paquin | Tomas Milian | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Derrick N. Ashong | Geno Silva
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Inside Man (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Clive Owen | Jodie Foster
Directors: Spike Lee
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“Inside Man” is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen). As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.

Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dolph Lundgren | Brandon Lee | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Tia Carrere | Toshirô Obata | Philip Tan | Rodney Kageyama | Ernie Lively | Renee Griffin | Reid Asato | Takayo Fischer | Simon Rhee | Vernee Watson-Johnson | Lenny Imamura | Roger Yuan
Directors: Mark L. Lester
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For 400 years, Japan has been home to a secret criminal organization dedicated to its own supremacy in the underworld. Ruled by an ancient, arcane code of honor, the deadly Yakuza have been among the most feared members of society. Even today, they are immediately recognizable by the stunningly ornate tattoos that cover their bodies, telling the terrifying story of their stature and career in a dark order that knows no mercy. Now the Yakuza are coming to Los Angeles. But in America, they’re going to meet their match. Two cops are on their trail. One’s an American raised in Japan. He’s got the mind and spirit of a samurai, and the body of a human fighting machine. The other’s a Japanese-American raised in California’s San Fernando Valley. He’s into malls, pizza and MTV. But he can disarm five gunmen with his bare feet. One’s a warrior. One’s a wise-ass. But together they’ve got what it takes to remove some tattoos from Little Tokyo. “Showdown in Little Tokyo” stars action favorite Dolph Lundgren as Chris Kenner, a man fighting for his adopted heritage and his family’s honor; and Brandon Lee, in his first American film role, as Johnny Murata, a guy whose idea of a good time includes knowing where—and how—to get his kicks. Opposites in attitude, once they get on the streets, they’re a perfect odd couple. And what they have in common is their enemy—the Yakuza who are bringing a lethal new drug trade to Los Angeles, coupled with a macabre taste for violence and cruelty.

Wild Wild West (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Kevin Kline | Kenneth Branagh | Salma Hayek | M. Emmet Walsh | Ted Levine | Frédérique Feder | Musetta Vander | Sofia Eng | Ling Bai | Garcelle Beauvais | Mike H. McGaughy | Jerry Wills | Rodney A. Grant | Buck Taylor
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | John Malkovich | Miranda Richardson | Nigel Havers | Joe Pantoliano | Leslie Phillips | Masatô Ibu | Emily Richard | Rupert Frazer | Peter Gale | Takatoro Kataoka | Ben Stiller | David Neidorf | Ralph Seymour | Robert Stephens
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.

007 Live and Let Die (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bernard Lee | Roger Moore | Yaphet Kotto | Jane Seymour | Clifton James | Julius Harris | Geoffrey Holder | David Hedison | Gloria Hendry | Lois Maxwell | Tommy Lane | Earl Jolly Brown | Roy Stewart | Lon Satton | Arnold Williams
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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When Bond investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he soon finds himself a target, evading the vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Known as “Mr. Big,” Kananga is coordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind’s plan, he meet Solitaire (Jane Seymour), the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond, of course, works his own magic on her, and the stage is set for pulse-pounding action sequences involving voodoo, hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats.

The Human Stain (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Nicole Kidman | Ed Harris | Gary Sinise | Wentworth Miller | Jacinda Barrett | Harry J. Lennix | Clark Gregg | Anna Deavere Smith | Lizan Mitchell | Kerry Washington | Phyllis Newman | Margo Martindale | Ron Canada | Mili Avital
Directors: Robert Benton
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.