Lift (2001)

Focusing on the bonding between three girls in Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their high school closes down for asbestos removal.

Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.

Mona and Dee Dee are half-sisters who share the same father. They are completely unlike each other, but they live in the same apartment building, so disagreements are common.

Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with the male gender.

Director Marc Isaacs install himself in the lift of a typical english tower. People start talking to him and we discover their lives.

A poor Afro-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

When his sister is brutally raped, an ex-cop goes after a mysterious man from his past.

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

Can a young person in the South Bronx pursue a dream that isn't tied to crime, gang-banging, prostitution, violence, and racism? Tommy is a natural leader and a gifted artist. When Allen, a... See full summary »

A psychological thriller. One quite ordinary summer morning five different and unacquainted people leave their apartments at different floors and enter the lift. The doors close behind the ... See full summary »

In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement.