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#841 movie on Nov 13 Attention Score3.0
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  1. Higher Learning
    1995Drama

    African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will...

    #4,573Attention Score0.5
  2. City of God
    2002Drama

    In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents...

    #717Attention Score3.3
  3. Mississippi Burning
    1988Drama

    Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town...

    #906Attention Score2.8
  4. Green Room
    2016

    Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

    #1,141Attention Score2.4
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  1. Malcolm X
    1992Drama

    A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

    #1,635Attention Score1.8
  2. A Time to Kill
    1996Drama

    A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

    #1,771Attention Score1.7
  3. Gran Torino
    2008Drama

    Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized...

    #2,042Attention Score1.5
  4. A Prophet
    2009Drama

    Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems...

    #2,256Attention Score1.3
  5. Fruitvale Station
    2013Drama

    Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the...

    #2,867Attention Score1.0
  6. In the Name of the Father
    1993Drama

    A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in...

    #3,073Attention Score0.9
  7. Menace II Society
    1993Drama

    A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

    #3,390Attention Score0.8
  8. Selma
    2014Drama

    "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous...

    #3,470Attention Score0.8
  9. Dead Man Walking
    1995Drama

    A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

    #3,708Attention Score0.7
  10. American Me
    1992Drama

    During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana...

    #4,166Attention Score0.6
  11. The Hurricane
    1999Drama

    The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

    #4,865Attention Score0.5

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