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Mos Def
	Biography: Mos Def first gained notoriety as one half of the heralded underground rap group Black Star, and later achieved success as a solo rapper. Branching out in to acting in the early 2000s, the musician has turned in a number of critically acclaimed performances. Total Films at Criticker: 22 - You've Seen 0
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Next Day Air (2009)

Summary: When a delivery man (Faison) leaves a package containing bricks of cocaine at the wrong address, it sets into motion a battle of wills and wits between the dealer, the intended recipients, and the people who have the drugs and plan to sell them off.

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Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Summary: A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.

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Cadillac Records (2008)

Summary: Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.

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Journey to the End of the Night (2006)

Summary: One of the most dangerous cities in the world is São Paulo, Brazil. It's in the city's underworld of sex, drugs, money, and corruption that a father and son plan to finally escape this vicious and dangerous underworld. (imdb)

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16 Blocks (2006)

Summary: The story of how two men change -- and change each other -- during a tense 16 block struggle between life and death. (Warner Bros.)

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Summary: Don't Panic... Stick out your thumb to join the most ordinary man in the world on an extra-ordinary adventure across the universe in this hilarious comedy. (Touchstone Pictures)

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Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)

Summary: A genuine crowd-pleaser, Dave Chappelle's Block Party spotlights comedy superstar Dave Chappelle as he presents a Brooklyn neighborhood with its very own once-in-a-lifetime free block party. (Rogue Pictures)

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Lackawanna Blues (2005)

Summary: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York. (imdb)

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The Woodsman (2004)

Summary: A harrowing and moving tale of one man's attempt to re-enter society after twelve years in prison. (Newmarket Films)

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Something the Lord Made (2004)

Summary: A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. (imdb)

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The Italian Job (2003)

Summary: A gang of robbers, lead by career criminal Charlie Croker, create the largest traffic jam in Los Angeles history, giving them time to pull off a theft of gold bullion. They get away in their Mini Coopers, which are small enough to drive on sidewalks so they can make a clean get away before the traffic jam clears.

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Civil Brand (2002)

Summary: Women prisoners strike up a friendship with a young law student who works as a part-time prison guard. Together they discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their "slave labor", the women take over the prison.

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Brown Sugar (2002)

Summary: Dre (Diggs) and Sidney (Lathan) can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single childhood moment - the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic and he is a successful, though unfulfilled music executive. As they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner. (Fox Searchlight)

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Showtime (2002)

Summary: A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show. (imdb)

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Monster's Ball (2001)

Summary: A hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. It is the story of Hank (Thornton), an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia. He begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Leticia (Berry), the wife of a man he has just executed. (Lions Gate Films)

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Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)

Summary: Carmen, a seduceful aspiring actress seems to lead trouble everywhere she goes. But when a hard-nosed cop, Hill, falls in love with her, trouble is always around the corner, especially with a tough criminal investigator who's also after Carmen. (imdb)

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Bamboozled (2000)

Summary: An african-american TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.

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Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)

Summary: Explosively tracing the story of a group of underground hip-hop MCs & DJs from the early 1980's to the present day, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme is a documentary that explores the world of improvisational rap and the previously unexamined dimensions of hip-hop as a spiritual and community based art form. (Organic Films)

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Island of the Dead (2000)

Summary: The people of New York have been burying their unknown dead on Hart Island since 1869. Now real estate tycoon Rupert King wants to build what he calls "Hope City", supposedly to help the poor and homeless of the city "get a leg up", on this same island, with no thought of the current million or so "residents". (imdb)

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Where's Marlowe? (1998)

Summary: Experience the extraordinary true story of the documentary that's a mockumentary that became a real life mystery of passion, murder, and things that can only happen in the movies.

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Ghosts (1997)

Summary: The story tells of a small town that is very much bothered by a very strange and weird man living in a visually haunted house. One day the mayor decides to go with a couple of people from his town to the weird man who's living up the hill, and tell him to leave. When they reach the mayor starts convincing him to leave his town, but the people with the mayor started liking Michael Jackson, and he started singing to them and scaring the mayor. (imdb)

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The Hard Way (1991)

Summary: Nick Lang is a famous actor, well know for his action movies. For the next film he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his roll. Thus he teams up with the reluctant N.Y. cop John Moss. Not only does he have to put up with Nick who is laborious and out of touch with realities, but he also has to catch a cold-blooded murderer. (imdb)

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