In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals himself to be Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first African Americans to play in the NBA.
Casts Everett Osborne, Cary Elwes, Jeremy Piven, Eric Roberts, Jim Caviezel, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Pollak, Mike Starr, Jim Meskimen, Jason Sklar
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School Ties
Love & Basketball
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Swimming Upstream
Hail, Caesar!
Mona Lisa Smile
The Hudsucker Proxy
Woman Basketball Player No. 5
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L.A. Confidential
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Intimate Enemies
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The Outfit
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 2022
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.Havana
IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 1990
During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2007
Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with Junnosuke, an orphan he's taken under his wing at the urging of pretty Hiroi, who continues to manage a nearby tavern. Chagawa dreams of publishing a successful novel and settling down with Hiroi and Junnosuke, but his day job running the candy store keeps him busy, and Hiroi mistakes his tight schedule for a lack of interest in her. Hiroi has also embarked on a secret career as a burlesque dancer, which isn't doing much to improve her opinion of men. At the Suzuki household, seven-year-old Ippei isn't happy to be sharing the house with a guest, his distant cousin Mika who is the same age but far more demanding. Mutsuko, the apprentice female auto mechanic, is still staying with the Suzukis, and she's becomes the object of the affections of Takeo, a downbeat young man who is studying cooking.Plenty
IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 1985
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 2010
An exploration of the fierce rivalry between NBA superstars Larry Bird and Magic Johnson during their decade of dominance.School Ties
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1992
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.Love & Basketball
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2000
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.84 Charing Cross Road
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 1987
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 2005
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.Swimming Upstream
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 2003
A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons.Hail, Caesar!
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2016
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.Mona Lisa Smile
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 2003
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.The Hudsucker Proxy
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1994
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.Woman Basketball Player No. 5
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 1957
Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflects on his career as a star basketball player before the revolution.Sagan
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2008
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.L.A. Confidential
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 1997
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.James Dean
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2001
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.The Bookshop
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2017
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.Intimate Enemies
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2007
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.The Banker
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 2020
In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.