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"urban movies" playlist


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Created by: okalone

Movies: 31, TV Shows: 1 [scroll to tv]

Playlist description:  african american favs



Movies (31)


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Notorious (2009) (2009)

NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once sellin...

Views: 54,221 • Reviews: 7

Menace II Society (1993)

Crime  Drama 

This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence ...

Views: 48,691 • Reviews: 10

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes pop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

Views: 44,003 • Reviews: 11

Brown Sugar (2002)

Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company bas...

Views: 41,389 • Reviews: 3

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

Anna Mae always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small, the now teenage Anna soon ...

Views: 38,585 • Reviews: 3

Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2006)

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Views: 34,403 • Reviews: 5

Purple Rain (1984)

A brilliant, talented young musician struggles for success even as a rival musician threatens to supplant him, both professionally and romantically. PURPLE RAIN...

Views: 31,697 • Reviews: 11

The Color Purple (1985)

Drama 

A black Southern woman (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to find her identity after suffering years of abuse from her father and others over 40 year...

Views: 31,265 • Reviews: 7

Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.

Views: 30,878 • Reviews: 3

The Wiz (1978)

In this version of the classic story - based on the smash Broadway musical - Dorothy is a shy 24-year-old Harlem kindergarten teacher who is brought by a snows...

Views: 29,563 • Reviews: 4

Waist Deep (2006)

In the urban action thriller Waist Deep, director Vondie Curtis Hall (Redemption) takes audiences on a ride through contemporary Los Angeles - where a sexy 21...

Views: 28,505 • Reviews: 4

Girls Trip (2017)

Comedy 

When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dan...

Views: 26,805 • Reviews: 17

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

There's fame…there's fortune…and then there's family. Sometimes it's hard to choose. Based on the inspiring and true story of the First Family of music, The J...

Views: 23,964 • Reviews: 2

Dead Presidents (1995)

This action film, directed by the Hughes brothers, depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn."...

Views: 20,108 • Reviews: 8

Thin Line Between Love and Hate, A (1996)

An observable, fast-talking party man Darnell Wright, gets his punishment when one of his conquests takes it personally and comes back for revenge in this 'Fata...

Views: 17,557 • Reviews: 3

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)

Music-based romantic drama about the late singer/songwriter Frankie Lymon, who was responsible for many hit records but whose self-destructive life ended earl...

Views: 12,763 • Reviews: 2

Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le (2017)

Drama 

The story of R&B artist Michel'le, who rose to fame in the early 1980s when she signed on to Eazy-E's Ruthless Records.

Views: 11,344 • Reviews: 5

The Inkwell (1994)

In 1976, Drew Tate is a young teenager who has trouble dealing with life after he accidentally sets his house on fire. His parents Kenny and Brenda decide to g...

Views: 9,298 • Reviews: 1

When the Bough Breaks (2016)

A surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father.

Views: 7,872 • Reviews: 8

Get on Up (2014)

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Views: 6,518 • Reviews: 5

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Tv Shows (1)


The New Edition Story (2017)

A 3 night miniseries chronicling the ups and downs of legendary music group New Edition from their humble beginnings in Boston to individual solo success and ev...

Views: 17,216 • Followers: 3Reviews: 0
Season:1 Episode:3 (7 years ago)



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