Movies and TV shows set in harlem – page 4

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A Thousand and One (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, serious, dramatic ...
Plot: mother son relationship, parent child relationship, son, abduction, foster home, domestic drama, kidnapping, foster child, adopted son, runaway, mother son reunion, mother and son ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, year 2001
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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 6.5
 55K
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of ...
Style: sad, inspirational, political, perverse, historical drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vietnam war, father son relationship, minefield, friendship between men, black lives matter, war veteran, black, military, widower, post traumatic stress disorder, gunfight, racism ...
Time: 70s, 2020s, year 1971, year 1962, year 1969 ...
Place: vietnam, oakland california, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city, memphis ...
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Sylvie's Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional, period drama
Plot: love, music, black, african american, black history, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, male female relationship, musician, love and romance, relationships ...
Time: 2020s, year 1957, 1950s, 60s, year 1967 ...
Place: new york, detroit, manhattan new york city, harlem, atlanta georgia
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 6.7
 2K
Sparkle (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem who become singers Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs and Sparkle ends up being the one who gets famous. This movie tells about how drugs ruined Sister's relationships and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot: black, african american, drug addiction, urban, girl group, showbiz, african, girl power, rock and roll, ambitious woman, black cast, black history ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.8
 428K
The Irishman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story: A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, inspirational, crime drama ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, labor union, italian mafia, murder, killer as protagonist, high society, hitman, mob hit, criminal as protagonist, male protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, ireland, chicago, usa ...
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Who's the Man? (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, black comedy, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, undercover, police detective, police investigation, odd couple, fighting crime, friendship, working undercover, gangster, disorder, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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Strictly Business (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to ...
Style: black comedy, rom com, hood, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: urban, black, african american, hip hop, black romance, discrimination, black love, black girl, black man, hip hop culture, ambition, nightclub ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
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The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot: african american, racism, nude black woman, vaudeville, showbiz, cabaret, rising to stardom, lifestyle, performer, human spirit, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 1950s ...
Place: france, america, paris france, europe, missouri ...
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Who's That Girl (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Style: humorous, colorful, retro, cult classic, detective ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: cougar, class differences, shoplifting, impulsiveness, interrupted wedding, reckless driving, framed for murder, fiance fiancee relationship, convict, yuppie, love, screwball ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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The Last Dragon (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, humorous, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu classic, kung fu, blaxploitation, kidnapping, music, stereotypes, brother brother relationship, dishonesty, gang, ambition, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: cold war, jazz, immigrant, friendship, culture clash, circus, fall in love, american dream, kgb, refugee, freedom, shopping ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, usa, miami, miami beach ...
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The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, satirical, independent film, allegory ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, blaxploitation, drug abuse, urban, black, friendly alien, mind power, invasion, ufo, drug ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
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 5.9
 2K
Banza? (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps ...
Plot: airplane crash, plane crash, black american, taxi driver, hospital, musician, desert, crash landing, travel, taxi, wedding, airplane ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, manhattan new york city, hong kong, france, tunisia ...
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New York, New York (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Style: sentimental, stylized, realistic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot: jazz, music, musician, saxophonist, dancing, fall in love, world war two, american football, music and dance, gotham city, doomed romance, orchestra ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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 8.2
 913K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, neo noir, bleak, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, character study, loner, alienation, obsession, vigilantism, violence, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, depression ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 7.3
 2K
Claudine (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Diahann Carroll was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for her gripping portrayal as the indomitable Claudine in this heartwarming comedy. While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for ...
Style: black comedy, grim, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: african american, black, single mother, blaxploitation, black history, love, teenage pregnancy, girl, women, homeless, poverty, black girl ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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 6.6
 21K
Shaft (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Style: grindhouse, stylized, tense, harsh, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, blaxploitation, gangster, lone hero, gang, anti hero, mafia, organized crime, urban, gunfight, hitman, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, america, africa, harlem ...
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The Ron Clark Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matthew Perry is real-life inspiration Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Clark must use unconventional methods, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, human spirit, new job, changing lives, teacher student relationship, education, hardcase students, obstacle, hopes, bad attitude ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place: harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
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Gordon's War (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
Style: grim, crime drama, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, drug addiction, urban, murder, black history, vigilantism, drug dealing, gangster, partner, society ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.1
 25K
Harlem Nights (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: "Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any ...
Style: hood, funny, black comedy, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: nightclub, gangster, urban, black, organized crime, fight scenes, african american, mobster, corruption, gang, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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 7.3
 10K
Ragtime (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Style: clever, bleak, cult classic, independent film, controversial ...
Plot: racism, jazz, fighting the system, racial injustice, american history, trial, female nudity, friendship, murder, anarchist, piano, pianist ...
Time: year 1981, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, eastern europe, harlem, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
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Live and Let Die (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Style: exciting, humorous, saga, action adventure, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, 007, secret agent, spy, snake, fictional country, espionage, interracial romance, virginity, human sacrifice, chase, british ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, caribbean, west indies, louisiana, fictional island ...
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The Cotton Club (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style: intense, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Plot: jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, flapper, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Style: realistic, retro, intellectual, serious, touching ...
Plot: jazz, biopic, african american, drug abuse, music, blaxploitation, drug addiction, black, racism, blues, musician, singer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america, harlem, new york city, usa, new york, baltimore ...
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 5.5
 17K
The Wiz (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she ...
Style: stylized, cult classic, sweet, dark drama, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wizard of oz, broadway, black, magic, dancing, fantasy world, music, african american, black history, disco, urban, black woman ...
Time: year 1978
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 5.8
 16K
Uncle Drew (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Uncle Drew recruits a squad of older basketball players to return to the court to compete in a tournament.
Style: funny, entertaining, light, humorous
Audience: adult
Plot: basketball, tournament, comeback, financial problem, athlete's life, follow your dream, sport team, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambitious, celebrity culture, rise to the top ...
Place: new york, harlem, new york city
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 5.3
 47K
Honey (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep ...
Style: sexy, inspirational, teen, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dancing, hip hop, music, dance, teenager, street dance, choreographer, follow your dream, lifestyle, love and romance, starting over, hopes ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, harlem, new york city
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