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A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s A TV prequel to the 2007 film, American Gangster, which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas

Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial vi

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super intelligence and telekinesis

After a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction, a champion boxer fights to get custody of his daughter and revive his professional career

Birdee Calvert must choose between her morals and her heart after her husband divorces her and a charming young man, who her daughter disapproves of, comes back into her life

Accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed, Bryan Mills goes on the run and brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict

An undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself

A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly purchased houses safe room when three men break in, searching for a missing fortune

The daughter of the U S President heads off to college where she falls for a graduate student with a secret

Based on Terry McMillans novel, this film follows four very different African American women and their relationships with men

An adaptation of Alex Haleys Roots Chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America

Following the rise of Aretha Franklins career from a child singing in her fathers churchs choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icons journey to find her voice

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amins regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s

A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human

Follows Talcott Garland, whose tranquil existence is upended by the death of his father Mariah Denton, a former journalist and ardent conspiracy theorist, questions the manner of his death and thinks he was the victim of foul play

Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionists sniper rifle Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuarts negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw dropping climax

Its the year 3000 A D , and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos Humanity is enslaved by these gold thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their man animals are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime

A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldiers world

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U S Armed Services radio station in Vietnam

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed

The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re told from several different perspectives

An African American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this mans life, family, and American society

26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control

A husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brothers million dollar insurance policy

The weeks leading up to a young couples wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to rest

On the streets of San Francisco a team of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Behavioral Analysis Unit use profiling to catch some of the most horrific serial killers and unidentifiable subjects

A gangsters girlfriend flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang are on her trail

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine

A man seeks justice after his wife and two daughters are gunned down in a terrorist attack

Al, a basketball coach at a New Orleans high school, finally has a winning team when Hurricane Katrina happens He tries to build a winning team anew after the hurricane

A Colonel working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to use military force to remove the elected President, who always opposed Pentagon budget increases, and to replace him with a much tamer Vice President

Four Los Angelenos, a mortician, an ex con, a suicidal ex priest, and a stripper, are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances

Policemen Ali Sokhela and Brian Epkeen investigate the brutal murder of a young white woman, apparently provoked by the availability of a new illegal drug and somehow connected to the disappearance of black street children

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this mans life, family, and American society