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Home (2013)
Character: Dundee
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.
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His and Hers (1997)
Character: Lenny
After Carol accidentally chops off Glenn's finger in the kitchen, she decides that she is not giving it back to him until he confesses all his affairs.
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Washington Heights (2002)
Character: Mickey
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.
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Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (2000)
Character: Danny
Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop is a cinematic tour de force that is unprecedented in film or hip-hop history. From the mind of Brooklyn actor, performance artist and hip-hop activist Danny Hoch, this film spins out the stories of ten lives shocked by global hip-hop, the prison system and life in general. Moving masterfully in and out of the characters while the camera cuts from film narrative to live performances, Danny blows your mind and makes you look at cultural power in a new way that is hysterically funny, tragically sad and uplifting all at once.
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Whiteboyz (1999)
Character: Flip
In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also a wannabe pusher, selling flour as cocaine. And while he talks about "keeping it real," he hardly notices real life around him: his father's been laid off, his mother uses Food Stamps, his girlfriend is pregnant, James may be psychotic, one of his friends (one of the town's few Black kids) is preparing for college, and, on a trip to Chicago to try to buy drugs, the cops shoot real bullets. What will it take for Flip to get real?
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Blackbird (2007)
Character: Pinchback
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.
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Barry (2016)
Character: Eddie
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
Character: Pilla
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
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3 A.M. (2001)
Character: Father
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.
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Goldie (2020)
Character: Frank
Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. This is a story about displaced youth, ambition, and maintaining your spirit in the face of insurmountable obstacles.
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Violet & Daisy (2011)
Character: Man #4
Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
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We Own the Night (2007)
Character: Louis 'Jumbo' Falsetti
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Character: Agent Y
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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Safe (2012)
Character: Julius Barkow
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
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Landline (2017)
Character: Singles Mixer DJ
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
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Subway Stories (1997)
Character: Edward (segment "Honey-Getter")
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Character: Intersection Guy Cop
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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Exposed (2016)
Character: Detective Joey Cullen
After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
Character: Pvt. Leonardo Carni
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
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Bamboozled (2000)
Character: Timmi Hillnigger
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
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Wolves (2016)
Character: Sean
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
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Henry's Crime (2010)
Character: Joe
An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
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Lucky You (2007)
Character: Bobby Basketball
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
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