8.1

The Help

2011,

• Actors: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach
• Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Action, Sci-Fi, Family, Romance, Comedy, Crime, Adventure, Documentary, History, Musical
• Director(s): Tate Taylor
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.

  6.2

Hurricane Season

2009, USA

• Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Forest Whitaker, Bonnie Hunt, Isaiah Washington, Bow Wow, Courtney B. Vance, Khleo Thomas, Lil' Wayne, J.B. Smoove, China Anne McClain, Robbie Jones, Lance E. Nichols, Irma P. Hall, Michael Gaston, Jackie Long, Marcus Lyle Brown, Odessa Sykes, Anthony Michael Frederick, Jarod Einsohn, Maliek Golden, Samantha Beaulieu, Tarra Riggs, J. Omar Castro, Elton LeBlanc, Deneen Tyler, Cynthia LeBlanc, Liann Pattison, Eric D. Hill Jr., Sharon K. London, Larry Gamell Jr.
• Genre: Drama, Sport
• Director(s): Tim Story
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the disaster and leads them on the path to the state championships.

  6.9

Ballast

2007, USA

• Actors: Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail, Ventress Bonner, Jimez Alexander, Jean Paul Guillory, Marcus Alexander, Marquice Alexander, Lawrence Jackson, Jeremy Jordan, Steve Cabell, Samuel Dobbins, Neil Pettigrew, Sanjib Shrestha, Carol Clark, Lee G. Beck, Michael Johnston, Valeace Bright, Cassandra Campbell, Darla Johnson Lloyd, Lance Anderson, Albert Jay Levy, Edward Whitehead, Patricia Lee, Earl Ray, Zachary Coleman, Rafe D. Simpson, Donald Johnson, Hurstine Watts
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Lance Hammer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.

  6.7

American Violet

2007, USA

• Actors: Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Alfre Woodard, Michael O'Keefe, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott A. Martin, Malcolm Barrett, Jackson Beals, Michael Beasley, Samantha Beaulieu, Tody Bernard, Allen Boudreaux, Jeanne Bourgeois, Andrew Buchler, Kesha Bullard, J. Omar Castro, John Will Clay, Portia Cue, Daurice Cummings, Charles S. Dutton, Roslyn D. Evans, Jon Eyez, Rodney Hebert, Louis Herthum, Elton LeBlanc, Jerry Leggio, Jessie Blake Lough, Anthony Mackie, Christopher McCann, Hunter McGregor
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Tim Disney
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.