Isaiah Washington
Isaiah Washington IV (born August 3, 1963) is an American actor and internet personality. Following a series of film appearances, he came to prominence for portraying Dr. Preston Burke in the first three seasons of the series Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2007. Washington began... Read full bio →
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The Moguls
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film.
Wild Things 2
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.
Trois 3: The Escort
When a hip-hop promoter is bailed out of a hefty debt by a club owner, he becomes one of her call boys and nearly loses his life in the process.
Dead Birds
Towards the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
Hollywood Homicide
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor.
Welcome to Collinwood
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose.
Ghost Ship
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Exit Wounds
Orin Boyd is a maverick Detroit cop who saves the Vice President from terrorists by breaking all the rules. His Precinct Captain doesn't like the way Frank works and busts him down to the toughest precinct in Detroit. This Steven Seagal action vehicle plays out as expected.
Romeo Must Die
Han Sing (Jet Li) and Trish O'Day (Aaliyah), each from one of two feuding familes meet in a chance encounter, and set-out to uncover the circumstances leading to the ongoing bloodbath. A trail which reveals conspiratorial agendas & turncoats within both families.
True Crime
Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
Out of Sight
A notorious bank robber played by George Clooney escapes from prison and goes to meet up with his friend who unknowingly hijacked a car with an FBI agent played by Jennifer Lopez inside. Clooney ends up starting a relationship with the agent who is later let walk and follows the two men. A classic Soderbergh film with excellent performances.
Bulworth
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Love Jones
A poet and photographer in Chicago explore their growing relationship while discussing love with friends. When she tests his feelings, romantic complications follow.
Soul of the Game
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.
Girl 6
An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.
Get on the Bus
Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995.
Dead Presidents
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
Clockers
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer.
Crooklyn
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Alma's Rainbow
The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.