Roger E. Mosley

Two prison guards team up with a convict and a drug smuggler to recapture bank robbers.

Race está no corredor da morte por um crime que não cometeu. Ele passa o tempo gravando mensagens e enviando-as para mulheres solitárias. Para sua surpresa, ele é libertado, mas as gravações caem em mãos erradas e Race é novamente acusado de crime.

Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. Ultimately, charm, lust and passion prevail, but Darnell learns the hard way that when you play, you pay. Brandi is much harder to get rid of than she was to get--especially when she realizes that she has a rival vying for Darnell's affection. When he finally decides to call it quits, Brandi becomes an obsessed femme fatale stalking the new love of her life.

When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.

Felizmente casados Michael (Kurt Russell) e Karen Carr (Madeleine Stowe) chamam a polícia depois de um assalto fracassado. O policial Pete Davis (Ray Liotta) ajuda na instalação de um novo sistema de segurança. Os Carrs agradecidos convidam Pete para jantar e começam uma amizade. Pete convida Michael para ir com ele durante uma patrulha noturna e dá a ele a chance de espancar um ladrão. Michael se recusa e diz ao policial para ficar longe, mas Pete começa a perseguir o casal apavorado.

Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.

A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the Olympic team.

A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.

Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.

Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.

Uma amizade a três entre dois jogadores de futebol profissional de espírito livre e a filha do proprietário fica comprometida quando dois deles se envolvem romanticamente.

A small time con-artist gets between the FBI and a suitcase filled with money.

Cinebiografia do campeão Muhammad Alim, condiserado um dos maiores pugilistas de todos os tempos.

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

É um filme de comédia dramática de 1976, dirigido por Bob Rafelson, com roteiro de Charles Gaines (adaptado de sua novela de 1972 de mesmo nome). A história centra-se em um jovem de Birmingham (Alabama), interpretado por Jeff Bridges, que está envolvido em um acordo desonesto. A fim de fechar o acordo, ele precisa comprar uma academia para completar um lote multi-parcelado. Quando ele visita a academia, no entanto, vê que está romanticamente interessado na recepcionista (Sally Field) e esboça um estilo de vida despreocupado, como o do fisiculturista austríaco "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) que está treinando para a competição de Mr. Universo.

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 times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.

When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.

In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery.

McQ é um veterano da polícia de Seattle, um tenente que poderia ser capitão, mas seu jeito "duro" com a bandidagem atrapalha sua carreira. Ele e seu amigo e parceiro investigam o traficante Santiago, até que o parceiro é morto. McQ de imediato quer ir atrás de Santiago, mas seus superiores não lhe dão o caso. McQ então pede demissão e passa a agir como detetive particular.

Após ser julgada por um crime que não cometeu, uma mulher é condenada à prisão perpétua na chamada Terminal Island, uma prisão anárquica onde homens assassinos fazem as regras e as mulheres revidam.

A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.

Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.

Tyrone Tackett volta à sua cidade-natal ao descobrir que o irmão morreu. Mas começa a desconfiar de que ele foi assassinado, e parte para uma violenta investigação que o levará ao submundo da pornografia e do crime organizado. Remake blaxploitation de "Get Carter" (no Brasil, "Carter - O Vingador".

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.