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1. Oz (1997–2003)
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.
Stars: Ernie Hudson, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters
Votes: 106,741
2. American Gangster (2007)
R | 157 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin
Votes: 452,760 | Gross: $130.16M
3. Final Destination (2000)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.
Director: James Wong | Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke
Votes: 279,708 | Gross: $53.33M
4. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Set after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
Stars: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Richard T. Jones
Votes: 62,848
5. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,499 | Gross: $27.55M
6. A Different World (1987–1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy
A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.
Stars: Lisa Bonet, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Darryl M. Bell
Votes: 7,951
7. Third Watch (1999–2005)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve New York City as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct.
Stars: Coby Bell, Skipp Sudduth, Jason Wiles, Molly Price
Votes: 11,451
8. All Rise (2019–2023)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama
A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.
Stars: Simone Missick, Wilson Bethel, Jessica Camacho, J. Alex Brinson
Votes: 6,178
9. All My Children (1970–2011)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Mystery
Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, this show is the decades-old, risk-taking soap that centers around Erica Kane and her long line of husbands.
Stars: Susan Lucci, David Canary, Michael E. Knight, Cameron Mathison
Votes: 3,265
10. King of New York (1990)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo
Votes: 42,138 | Gross: $2.55M
11. Malcolm X (1992)
PG-13 | 202 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Votes: 102,093 | Gross: $48.17M
12. The Guardian (2001–2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick.
Stars: Simon Baker, Alan Rosenberg, Raphael Sbarge, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 5,892
13. Murphy Brown (1988–2018)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The personal and professional misadventures of an opinionated but beloved woman working as a television journalist.
Stars: Candice Bergen, Grant Shaud, Robert Pastorelli, Faith Ford
Votes: 10,653
14. Eve's Bayou (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield
Votes: 11,621 | Gross: $14.82M
15. Bitch (I) (2017)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attempts to keep the family together.
Director: Marianna Palka | Stars: Jason Ritter, Jaime King, Marianna Palka, Brighton Sharbino
Votes: 2,038
16. Dope (2015)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who's surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.
Director: Rick Famuyiwa | Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise
Votes: 89,340 | Gross: $17.51M
17. Summer of Sam (1999)
R | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 41,345 | Gross: $19.28M
18. Till (I) (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Director: Chinonye Chukwu | Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett
Votes: 15,243
19. He Got Game (1998)
R | 136 min | Drama, Sport
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson
Votes: 51,478 | Gross: $21.55M
20. Poetic Justice (1993)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.
Director: John Singleton | Stars: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King, Joe Torry
Votes: 16,640 | Gross: $27.52M
21. Marshall (2017)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown
Votes: 26,830 | Gross: $10.05M
22. Queen Sugar (2016–2022)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
Stars: Rutina Wesley, Kofi Siriboe, Omar J. Dorsey, Nicholas L. Ashe
Votes: 5,776
23. Abduction (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Director: John Singleton | Stars: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Jake Andolina
Votes: 83,399 | Gross: $28.09M
24. Empire State (2013)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two childhood friends plan to rob an armored-car depository, but an NYPD officer stands in their way.
Director: Dito Montiel | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Michael Angarano, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Ben-Victor
Votes: 22,942
25. Tales from the Hood (1995)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
Director: Rusty Cundieff | Stars: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Joe Torry, De'aundre Bonds
Votes: 9,617 | Gross: $11.80M
26. New York Undercover (1994–2024)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Drugs, robbery, corruption, rape, murder. Cops versus criminals. The undercover war has started. Welcome to New York City.
Stars: Malik Yoba, Michael DeLorenzo, Patti D'Arbanville, Luna Lauren Velez
Votes: 2,968
27. The Birth of a Nation (2016)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley
Votes: 21,828 | Gross: $15.86M
28. Deep Cover (1992)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa
Votes: 14,072 | Gross: $16.64M
29. The Son of No One (2011)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family.
Director: Dito Montiel | Stars: Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, James Ransone
Votes: 17,949 | Gross: $0.03M
30. School Daze (1988)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme
Votes: 8,040 | Gross: $14.55M
31. Mercenary for Justice (2006 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A mercenary gets involved in a mission that threatens the lives of his kin. In order to succeed, he must break into one of the most well guarded prisons in Eastern Europe and free the son of the most notorious drug lord in the world today.
Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy | Stars: Steven Seagal, Jacqueline Lord, Roger Guenveur Smith, Luke Goss
Votes: 4,475
32. The Available Wife (2020)
TV-MA | 100 min | Drama
When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While leaving her husband and son, the lies that ... See full summary »
Director: Jamal Hill | Stars: Clifton Powell, Kj Smith, Roger Guenveur Smith, Anwan Glover
Votes: 207
33. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
TV-MA | 48 min | Biography, Drama, History
The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America's first female self-made millionaire.
Stars: Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Kevin Carroll
Votes: 13,615
34. Fighting (2009)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In New York City, a young counterfeiter is introduced to the world of underground street fighting by a seasoned scam artist, who becomes his manager on the bare-knuckling brawling circuit.
Director: Dito Montiel | Stars: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Luis Guzmán, Zulay Henao
Votes: 34,205 | Gross: $23.04M
35. The O.J. Simpson Story (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Bobby Hosea, Jessica Tuck, David Roberson, James Handy
Votes: 257
36. Real Husbands of Hollywood (2013– )
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy
Kevin Hart and other celebrities play a comic fictionalized version of themselves in this parody of similarly named reality shows. Episodes often feature Kevin Hart's attempts to gain celebrity and his jealousy of his friends.
Stars: Duane Martin, Kevin Hart, Nick Cannon, Nelly
Votes: 4,497
37. All About the Benjamins (2002)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bounty hunter Bucum chases bail-jumper Reggie, who runs right into the scene of a diamond heist and murder and gets shot at as well. Later they become partners in their pursuit of the $20M in diamonds and lottery ticket. Their women join.
Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Chaplin
Votes: 15,645 | Gross: $25.48M
38. Chi-Raq (2015)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett
Votes: 10,727 | Gross: $2.65M
39. Kings (2009)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A modern day, alternate-reality drama about a hero who rises to become the King of his nation, based on the biblical story of King David.
Stars: Ian McShane, Christopher Egan, Susanna Thompson, Allison Miller
Votes: 8,731
40. Shade (2003)
R | 101 min | Crime, Thriller
A group of hustlers encounter "The Dean" and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster.
Director: Damian Nieman | Stars: Joe Nicolo, Carl Mazzocone Sr., George Tovar, Frank Medrano
Votes: 13,230 | Gross: $0.03M
41. Black Jesus (2014–2019)
TV-MA | 21 min | Comedy
The hijinks of a street-smart savior living in modern-day Compton, on a mission to spread love and kindness throughout the crime-ridden L.A. neighborhood with his small group of followers.
Stars: Gerald 'Slink' Johnson, John Witherspoon, Corey Holcomb, Angela Elayne Gibbs
Votes: 3,831
42. Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fallen Angels is an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran in 1993 and 1995 on Showtime, and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994.
Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Lynette Walden, Dan Hedaya, Bernard Hocke
Votes: 549
43. The Clapper (I) (2017)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
15 minutes of fame destroys the life of a man who works as a clapper in television.
Director: Dito Montiel | Stars: Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried, Tracy Morgan, Adam Levine
Votes: 8,664
44. The Take (2007)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored truck driver wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man who committed the crime.
Director: Brad Furman | Stars: John Leguizamo, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Perez, Bobby Cannavale
Votes: 2,455
45. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (2004 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
You play an exiled and depowered Jedi Knight who has returned to the Republic and must restore both your powers and the devastated Jedi Order to challenge the Sith.
Stars: Sara Kestelman, Nicky Katt, Roger Guenveur Smith, Kelly Hu
Votes: 5,532
46. Eagleheart (2011–2014)
TV-14 | Action, Comedy
In this parody on cop shows, a mad-dog US Marshal bent on justice battles crime his way and has only two less-than-perfect partners and a stodgy boss to rely on.
Stars: Chris Elliott, Maria Thayer, Brett Gelman, Jack Wallace
Votes: 2,162
47. Hollow Point (2019)
89 min | Action, Thriller
A grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city.
Director: Daniel Zirilli | Stars: Luke Goss, Dilan Jay, JuJu Chan Szeto, Michael Paré
Votes: 847
48. Get on the Bus (1996)
R | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer
Votes: 6,044 | Gross: $5.73M
49. The Whole Truth (2010–2012)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Legal drama about the prosecution's and the defense team's take on each criminal case.
Stars: Rob Morrow, Maura Tierney, Eamonn Walker, Anthony Ruivivar
Votes: 727
50. The Five Rules of Success (2020)
83 min | Crime, Thriller
An enterprising ex-convict overcomes tragedy by designing a modern-day guide to success for a society that failed him.
Director: Orson Oblowitz | Stars: Isidora Goreshter, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mike Ferguson, Jon Sklaroff
Votes: 147