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What's Love Got to Do With It - Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne star in this bio-pic about the legendary singer Tina Turner and her abusive husband Ike Turner. Bassett won a Golden Globe for her performance and both lead actors were nominated for Academy Awards. The film follows Tina's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free of Ike. (Photo: Touchstone Pictures)

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The Wiz  - Diana Ross and Michael Jackson star in this adaption of The Wizard of Oz that seeks to capture the essence of the African-American experience. Quincy Jones did the music for this film, which led to his working more closely with Michael Jackson. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

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Training Day - Denzel Washington stars as a rogue LAPD detective taking a rookie narcotics officer through hell on his first day on the job. Though he'd been nominated before, Washington won his first Academy Award for this role.  (Photo: Warner Brothers Pictures)

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House Party - Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. Nonetheless, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know three of the thugs at school are planning to teach him a lesson.  (Photo: New Line Cinema)

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Ray - Jamie Foxx stars in this critically acclaimed film, which explores the life and career of the musical genius Ray Charles. Foxx won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.  (Photo: Universal Pictures)

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Lean On Me - Morgan Freeman stars as the dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark, who is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school that he is determined to improve. (Photo: Warner Brothers Pictures)

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Holiday Heart  - Ving Rhames plays a drag queen who takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the girl. (Photo: MGM Televison)

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Harlem Nights - Eddie Murphy stars as "Sugar" Ray, the owner of an illegal casino, who must contend with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the organized crime world of the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!   (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

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The Great Debaters - Denzel Washington plays Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College in Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. (Photo: Harpo Films)

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Cinderella - Whitney Houston produced and co-stars with Brandy in this 1990s urban update of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, based on the classic fairy tale. Why shouldn't Black girls have their own Cinderella? (Photo: Brown House Productions)

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Boomerang - Eddie Murphy plays Marcus, a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. But there comes a day when every man meets his match, and gets sprung. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

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American Gangster - Denzel Washington stars as 1970s gangster Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who devises ingenious schemes to smuggle the drug into the country from the Far East. This is the film that inspired Jay-Z's album of the same name. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

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