Bait 2000  R, 118 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Robert Pastorelli, Doug Hutchison, Kimberly Elise, David Paymer, Mike Epps, Jamie Kennedy, Nestor Serrano, Kirk Acevedo
Computer genius Bristol (Doug Hutchinson) masterminds a robbery of $42 million in gold bouillon only to have his partner, getaway driver Jaste (Robert Pastorelli), take off with the loot. But just as quickly, Jaste is picked up by the feds and suffers a fatal heart attack before federal agent Edgar Clenteen (David Morse) can get all the info on Bristol. So Clenteen, hoping Brisol believes Jaste shared info, puts an illegal tracking device on Jaste's cellmate, Alvin (Jamie Foxx), and lures Bristol into the open.
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 Beloved 1998  R, 174 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, Irma P. Hall, Dorothy Love Coates, Carol Jean Lewis
Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) was a slave before the Civil War, but she now lives in Cincinnati in a house that is haunted. Paul (Danny Glover) appears on the scene to visit his friend Sethe, who he has not seen since plantation days. His visit seems to bring out more antics of the ghost who now calls herself "Beloved" and seems to have within her all the ghosts of Sethe's past life.
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Bojangles 2001  TV, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Gregory Hines, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Elise, Maria Ricossa, Savion Glover, Linette Robinson, Jonathan Higgins, Lea Golde, Novie Edwards, Jackie Richardson
This made-for-TV film tells the story of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (Gregory Hines), the highly successful African American tap dancer. It covers his early days in vaudeville; the move into movies, which made him famous and rich; and his subsequent fall as a result of an addiction to gambling.
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 Diary of a Mad Black Woman 2005  PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Darren Grant
Cast: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos, Tiffany Evans, Cicely Tyson, Tyler Perry, Terrell Carter, Carole Mitchell-Leon, Avery Knight, Vickie Eng
Based on Tyler Perry's hit stage play, this story switches back and forth from comedy to melodrama. Helen (Kimberly Elise) thinks she is living the perfect life: married 18 years to successful attorney Charles (Steve Harris), beautiful mansion, and wealth–until Charles kicks her out and wants to marry her best friend (Lisa Marcos). Helen returns to her ghetto roots and tries, successfully and unsuccessfully, to put her past with Charles behind her.
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The Great Debaters 2007  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Forest Whitaker, Gina Ravera, John Heard, Kimberly Elise, Devyn A. Tyler, Trenton McClain Boyde, Ritchie Montgomery, Tim Parati
This film is loosely based on the true story of Wiley College professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) who, in 1935, led his small, Black, Texas college team of debaters against Harvard University's team of renown. Tolson's team–Henry Lowe (Nate Parker) and Hamilton Burgess (Jermaine Williams) are joined by alternates Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett) and James Farmer, Jr. (Denzel Whitaker). They undergo vigorous training by Tolson as he helps them improve their speaking skills. Conflicts concerning Tolson's efforts to help migrant farm workers rise to the fore, but, in the end, lessons are learned, and the debate team members learn to believe in themselves.
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John Q. 2002 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods, Kimberly Elise, Anne Heche, Eddie Griffin, Shawn Hatosy, Ray Liotta, Daniel E. Smith, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Obba Babatunde, Ron Annabelle, Ethan Suplee, Jay Leno, Larry King
John Quincy Archibald's (Denzel Washington) medical insurance will not cover a heart transplant. He seeks revenge and takes over the emergency room of a hospital that has refused a heart transplant for his 14-year-old son Mike (Daniel E. Smith). Hostage negotiators call on Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) to diffuse the situation.
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 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Vera Farmiga, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Sakina Jaffrey, Ted Levine, Miguel Ferrer, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney, Pablo Schreiber, Dorian Missick, Anthony Mackie
In this updated version of "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Gulf War veteran Captain Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) is still in the Army, but his squad sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), left the Army a hero and is now running for Vice President. Marco is having nightmares over what happened to their platoon while under the leadership of Shaw and tries to contact him. But, a big player in Shaw's campaign is his mother, Eleanor (Meryl Streep), who is determined to keep Marco away from her son. She wants him to be Vice President–no matter what!
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Pride 2007 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sunu Gonera
Cast: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Kimberly Elise, Tom Arnold, Brandon Fobbs, Alphonso McAuley, Regine Nehy, Nate Parker, Kevin Phillips, Scott Reeves, Evan Ross, Gary Anthony Sturgis
Based on the life of 1970s' school teacher Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard), this is the story of how lives were changed for the better when Jim founded an African-American swim team. As Jim was preparing the Marcus Foster Recreation Center swimming pool for demolition, he cleaned the pool, filled it, and opened it up for the North Philly neighborhood kids. With Jim's help, their lives changed for the better, and the swim team was formed.
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 Set It Off 1996  R, 121 min.
Genre: Action
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise, John C. McGinley, Blair Underwood, Vincent & Van Baum, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Charles Robinson
Four L.A. housing-project friends–Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith), Cleo (Queen Latifah), Frankie (Vivica Fox), and Tisean (Kimberly Elise)–obtain guns and begin casing banks for possible robberies after realizing that a stoned acquaintance of theirs got away with a $20,000 bank heist.
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Woman Thou Art Loosed 2004 R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Schultz
Cast: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan, Michael Boatman, Clifton Powell, Idalis DeLeon, T.D. Jakes, Sean Blakemore, Philip Bolden, Jordan Moseley, Amy Aquino
Based on the Reverend T.D. Jakes' self-help book and play, this story traces death-row inmate Michelle Jordan's (Kimberly Elise) struggles that ultimately led to her imprisonment on a murder charge and continues through her talks with Jakes, which lead to her being set free and on the road to spiritual recovery.
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| 1. Bait (2000)
2. Beloved (1998)
3. Bojangles (2001)
4. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
5. The Great Debaters (2007)
6. John Q. (2002)
7. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
8. Pride (2007)
9. Set It Off (1996)
10. Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
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