Fab 5 Freddy Movies

A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for his preternatural talent, of course, but also for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith Haring

Fifty years ago in the Bronx, a new genre of music was born, the product of a people searching for their voice and the opportunity to be heard. For...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Busta Rhymes

The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Max Roach

A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jamel Shabazz

Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nas

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ed Lover

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fab 5 Freddy

Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Quiñones

Keith Haring: The Message was released in conjunction with the Keith Haring retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Directed by famed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith Haring

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Omar Epps

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Russell Crowe

The story of Sport and Spoon - two young hustlers who attend the eponymous convention, only to get tangled up in a financial disagreement that leads...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chuck D

From the Boogie Down Bronx and beyond, the history of the b-boy.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony 'Powerful Pexster' Lopez

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amos Poe

A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Devon Terrell

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Wesley Snipes

This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

1)In The Flesh 2)X Offender 3)Denis 4)Detroit 442 5)(I'm Always Touched By Your)Presence,Dear 6)Picture This 7)Hanging On The Telephone 8)Heart Of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Debbie Harry

In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charlie Ahearn

The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With interviews from various figures in the community such as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nas

An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dicky Barrett

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

In this revelatory documentary, hip-hop legend and art lover Fab 5 Freddy (aka Fred Brathwaite) saddles up to explore 15th-century Italian...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fab 5 Freddy

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Hofmanis

The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tracy Camilla Johns

A look at the NBA and its players during the 1980s, including the introduction of the 3-point shot, the transformation of the Los Angeles Lakers into...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fab 5 Freddy

In the 1980s Keith Haring blazed a trail through the galleries and nightclubs of downtown New York's art scene. Rebellious and ingenious, Haring...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith Haring

Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

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Cast: Marina Abramović

A look at the NBA and its players during the 1990s, including Michael Jordan's all-conquering Chicago Bulls, possibly the greatest draft class ever,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fab 5 Freddy

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

By the dawn of the 21st century, hip-hop sales had reached an all-time high, but one thing has remained the same. The doors were still locked, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wiz Khalifa

Christopher Wallace, AKA The Notorious B.I.G., remains one of Hip-Hop’s icons, renowned for his distinctive flow and autobiographical lyrics....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: The Notorious B.I.G.

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Hathaway

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington