Carmen Jones (1954)

 

Starring:

• Harry Belafonte 
• Dorothy Dandridge 
• Pearl Bailey 
• Olga James 
• Joe Adams 
• Brock Peters 
• Diahann Carroll
• Roy Glenn 
• Nick Stewart 

Storyline

At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge, Bright Road, Tamango) is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe (Harry Belefonte, Island in the Sun), who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou (Olga James) and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War. Going after him, she succeeds only in getting him into the stockade. While she awaits his release, trouble approaches for both of them. Songs from the Bizet opera with modernized lyrics.

New Jersey Drive (1995)

Starring:

• Shar-Ron Corley
• Gabriel Casseus
• Gwen McGee
• Saul Stein
• Andre Moore
• Donald Faison
• Conrad Meertins Jr.
• Michele Morgan
• Devin Eggleston
• Koran C. Thomas
• Samantha Brown

Storyline
Jason (Sharron Corley) and Midget (Gabriel Casseus) are two teenagers living the in the projects of Newark, New Jersey, which at the time was considered the car theft capital of the world. Jason and his neighborhood friends would steal cars and take them for joyrides to pass time; excepts one of the friends stole a local policeman's car who now has a vendetta for the thieves. In efforts to survive the projects, Midget discovers he can make cash from the cars they steal, but the constant trailing of the police and the teenagers inability to not stay out of trouble keeps Jason constantly on the run from the law, the projects, and himself.