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The Lion King

The Lion King

The Lion King
IMDb: 8.5
89

A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince…

Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault
IMDb: 7.7
120

A dramatization of the life of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act…

Genre: Drama
By Dawn’s Early Light

By Dawn’s Early Light

By Dawn’s Early Light
IMDb: 7.1
101

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to…

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
IMDb: 6.8
110

Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team’s owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of…

Genre: Comedy
A Piece of the Action

A Piece of the Action

A Piece of the Action
IMDb: 6.4
135

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them…

Genre: Comedy, Thriller
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar

The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar

The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
IMDb: 5.7
44

Set in the African savannah, the film follows Kion as he assembles the members of the ‘Lion Guard’. Throughout the film, the diverse team of young animals will learn how…

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Last Remake of Beau Geste
IMDb: 6.1
85

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics

Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics

Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics
IMDb: 6.3
89

James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original ‘The Twilight Zone’ (1959) series. In “The Theater,”…

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War
IMDb: 6.7
97

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and…

True Identity

True Identity

True Identity
IMDb: 5.1
93

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

Genre: Comedy
The River Niger

The River Niger

The River Niger
IMDb: 6
105

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But…

Genre: Drama
Coming to America

Coming to America

Coming to America
IMDb: 7.1
117

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess… and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Star Wars Holiday Special
IMDb: 2.2
97

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet – in time for Life Day, their most important day…

Sommersby

Sommersby

Sommersby
IMDb: 6.2
109

Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the…

Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi
IMDb: 8.3
135

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all…

Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars
IMDb: 8.6
121

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team…

Warning Shot

Warning Shot

Warning Shot
IMDb: 4.9
90

A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family’s farmhouse. When a business rival covets their water rights, the situation spirals out…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride

The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride

The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride
IMDb: 6.5
81

The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter,…

The Sandlot

The Sandlot

The Sandlot
IMDb: 7.8
101

During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying…

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Lion King

The Lion King

The Lion King
IMDb: 6.9
118

Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and former heir…

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

Clean Slate
IMDb: 5.7
107

Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a ‘blank slate’. Since he is in the middle…

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams
IMDb: 7.5
107

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice’s directions don’t stop —…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Convicts

Convicts

Convicts
IMDb: 5.8
93

Texas writer Horton Foote’s touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy…

Genre: Drama
The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October

The Hunt for Red October
IMDb: 7.6
135

Based on Tom Clancy’s bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, The Hunt For Red October seethes with high-tech excitement and sweats with…

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
IMDb: 5.5
114

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Soul Man

Soul Man

Soul Man
IMDb: 5.3
104

A caucasian prospective grad student’s affluent family won’t pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American…

Genre: Comedy
Coming 2 America

Coming 2 America

Coming 2 America
IMDb: 5.3
110

Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named…

Genre: Comedy
The Loving Story

The Loving Story

The Loving Story
IMDb: 7.6
77

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia,…

Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard
IMDb: 7.3
112

Al Pacino’s deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare’s significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of “Richard III.”

Genre: Documentary
Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000
IMDb: 7.2
74

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original ‘Fantasia’ restores ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and adds seven new shorts.

The Reading Room

The Reading Room

The Reading Room
IMDb: 7.3
93

Making good on a promise he made to his dying wife, a widower (Jones) opens a reading room, a place where people can learn to read. Despite his goodwill, problems…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
A Family Thing

A Family Thing

A Family Thing
IMDb: 7
109

Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Claudine

Claudine

Claudine
IMDb: 7.3
92

Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country
IMDb: 6.8
106

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Genre: Drama