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Terrence Howard
1) The Walk
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In 1974, a cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
3) Pride
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The year is 1973, and Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard), a college-educated African-American, can't find a job. Driven by his love of competitive swimming, Jim converts an abandoned recreational pool hall in a Philadelphia slum with the help of Elston (Bernie Mac), a local janitor. But when city officials mark the new Philadelphia Department of Recreation for demolition, Jim fights back - by starting the city's first African-American swim team. Recruiting...
4) Iron man
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When jet -setting genius-industrialist Tony Stark is captured in enemy territory, he builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape. Now he is on a mission to save the world as a hero who's built, not born, to be unlike any other.
6) St. Vincent
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a hospital in a strangely idyllic mountain town in Idaho. But the more Ethan tries to find out what happened to him, and to two missing fellow agents, the more he discovers that nothing is as it seems in Wayward Pines. Desperate to learn the truth and return to his family, Ethan eventually unveils a terrifying secret that affects all of mankind.
8) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
9) The best man
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Scandalous secrets from the past begin to reveal themselves when a commitment-shy writer and his old college buddies reunite for a wedding.
10) Crash
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"Crash" tells interlocking stories of whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless, crashing against one another other like pinballs in contemporary Los Angeles. They are all defined in one way or another by racism, all victims of it, all guilty of it. The way they all leap to conclusions based on race ensures that they will learn things--mostly about themselves--and pay a price...
11) Holiday Love
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The Best Man Holiday: At a fifteen year reunion over the Christmas holidays, a group of college friends soon discover how simple it is for old rivalries and romances to resurface.
Four Christmases: When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to...
13) Awake
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While undergoing surgery, a wealthy young man experiences intraoperative awareness and discovers that the surgical team intended to murder him.
14) Hart's War
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Fourth-generation war hero Col. William McNamara (Bruce Willis) is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the camp's highest-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous, ever-watchful eye of SS Major Wilhelm Visser (Marcel Iures). Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to...
16) Cardboard Boxer
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Willie, homeless and on Skid Row, is coerced by two teens to fight other men for cash. Now involved in a violent world he can't understand and with few human connections beyond a girl's diary he found, Willie struggles to find a way out.
17) Animal
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In this crime-drama starring football superstar Jim Brown, a notorious gangster must reconcile his past in order to make a future for his criminally minded son.
18) Winnie Mandela
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A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
19) Never 2 Big
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When Rhythm Records' biggest artist is found dead just hours after she threatens to leave the label, her brother suspects the label' s ruthless CEO Curtis "Eightball" Harris is responsible. Now Freddy has to prove it before Eightball's hired thugs shut him up permanently. When you make a deal with Rhythm Records, you sign your life away in this suspenseful, action-packed look at the music biz backed by a pulsing hip-hop soundtrack.
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To support a friend getting over a break-up, four guys get together for a game of dominoes. And that's where the trouble begins... Glenn Plummer and Terrence Howard, turn in two outstanding performances as they deliver verbal jabs and power punches about their views on love and women.