Jean-Claude La Marre
After their unprecedented win at the National Stripper Competition in Las Vegas the year before, the Chocolate City team of strippers have had some ups and downs. Michael, their lead dancer suffered a tragic loss when his mother unexpectedly passes. Their Reality show, after their Vegas win, experienced low viewership and was not what they had expected, forcing them to withdraw from the Network production altogether. Now its time to get back to what they do best - dance. With the help and support of Mr. Williams, the Chocolate City Dancers will now prepare for a multi-city tour to regain their mojo, but once again personal challenges and internal beefs threaten to derail their new plan.
Ed (Pras from the Fugees) enters college on a track scholarship to escape some thugs from his past. Campus life, however, is filled with hurdles, and Ed's stoner roommate, Bud (Aries Spears), makes it hard not to fall back on old habits. But Ed's romantic interest, Lisa (Leila Arcieri), provides the incentive for Ed, if only he can win her away from her jock boyfriend, Craig (Hill Harper).
The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the way to Las Vegas to try their luck.
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
When a young woman accepts a position as a receptionist, she finds herself falling for the boss, and entering a world of drama and danger.
Tyron is one of the top college basketball stars in the country and is expected to be a top NBA draft pick, but as the pressure to perform well in school threatens his ability to perform on the court, things start to fall apart. Then, when his brother, Blak, is released from prison, he is pressured to rejoin the family business hustling drugs on the street. In a last ditch effort to save his star player, Tyron's coach introduces him to Carmen, a tutor who Tyron falls deeply in love with.
A comedy-drama that follows the the friendship of four women who relationships are put in jeopardy when the secrets between them are revealed.
On the eve of his wedding day, Pastor Jones' soon-to-be wife develops cold feet when secrets are revealed, and he must reassure her of his affection.
At Heartland Baptist Church, the sparks begin to fly when a young handsome Deacon becomes the focus of admiration between two dueling sisters who attend the church.
Cassie, the last remaining member of the original Gang of Roses, is sitting in a small Mexican jail holding the written code to a US military safe. It s here that she meets Collette (Eurika Pratts), a young gambler looking for her next con. Kate (Rocsi Diaz) attempts to break her out, and Cassie is killed. Upon their return, Kate and Collette meet up with outlaws Candi (Teyana Taylor) and Mimi (Claudia Jordan). After some lengthy planning, the four women head to the Mexican town of San Juevo and prepare for the robbery, which will take place in the town church. But unbeknownst to them, they are being followed by Lee (Gabriel Casseus) and his posse of bandits, looking to ambush the women before they can make their big score.
When Nadine Lazard (Kenya Moore), wife of Richard Lazard (Rudulph Moise), comes up missing, the focus immediately turns on her husband, a prominent Haitian doctor. The plot thickens when Violet Martin (vivica A. Fox), a beautiful detective assigned to the case, is led to believe that Nadine was the victim of a powerful Haitian Voodoo priest (Obba Babatunde). But nothing is as it seems in this complex psychological thriller that delves into the dark world of Voodoo, deception, and the fragility of the mind. Clifton Powell, Miguel Nunez Jr., and Jean Claude LaMarre costar.
Life is doubly complicated for Pastor Jones (Jean-Claude La Marre) when his beloved mentor (Harace Carpenter) unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a shocking secret: that he was actually the pastor's biological father. Grappling with the news is hard enough … but now he's also in a compromising position with his newly revealed half sisters (Dinora Walcott and Christina Johnson), whose joint crush on him just isn't kosher.
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair Salon, Lilliana (Tatyana Ali) is in way over her head. When she's not caught up in the daily dramas between her coworkers - the flamboyant stylist Delicious, the hotheaded ex-stripper Xenobia and the outspoken manicurist Ming - Lilliana is busy combing out hair disasters, breaking up client catfights and raising a son on her own. But when the salon's other owner Simone (Stacey Dash) decides to sell the shop and pocket the profits, Lilliana must choose whether to take her cut and run...or stand her ground and fight for a place they all call home.
Pastor Samuel is forced to live on the street with just the clothes on his back and a Bible in his hand. He has nowhere to go but up as he sets out to recover his faith.
After announcing that he'll step down from the pulpit and let a younger preacher (Jean-Claude La Marre) take his place, an aging minister (Harace Carpenter) watches in amusement as his daughters (Dinora Walcott and Christina Johnson) swoon over his successor. But little do the love-struck girls know that their father has a secret … of biblical proportions. Patricia Hodges also stars in this stylish urban drama.
A family is torn apart by their daughter's pregnancy. It's up to Pastor Jones to guide the family.
A retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, based on the idea that he was a black man whose death was a racially motivated hate crime.
.In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery ....
After he gets an 'F' on his latest assignment, film student Craig needs solid inspiration for his next short film. His girlfriend, Simone, who works at the local county hospital insists that the hospital's quack doctors, sexpot nurses, and hutty patients would be perfect source material for the budding director. Craig then takes a job as a lowly orderly at County General and soon wacky and harrowing hilarity ensues.
When a young couple find themselves on the brink of a divorce, pastor Jones is there to lend a helping hand. The wife turns to him for a place to stay, a job, and a sense of belonging as she leaves her abusive husband. But kindness turn to feelings. Will the pastor stray from his teachings to be with a beautiful member of his flock even as he mourns the recent death of his own beautiful wife?
Jennifer Lewis plays Nora, a young woman who runs a hair salon full of sassy, eclectic stylists.
One man must choose between his heart and his profession. Based on the true life story of Sugar Valentine, a man born into a family of Pimps finds that he is increasingly becoming disillusioned with the "game." And now he must face his biggest challenge of all: Falling in love.With added documentary testimonials from local prostitutes, Sugar Valentine the movie, will become an underground classic.
Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a 1/5 member of the Roses Gang. With the weight of grief on her heart, Rachel decides to shed her new found religious faith to bring vengeance upon her sister's killers. After placing Sally to rest, she goes in search of her former posse to assist her in the reckoning of the outlaws wrong doing.
Two men (Pras, Michael Goorjian) in drag purposely get arrested in order to recover their winning lottery-ticket from an inmate at a women's prison.
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960s.
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore - he wants revenge.
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 became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
