The movie tells the story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group, The Five Heartbeats (Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells) within the space of seven years.
Based on Bizet’s classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones. The movie tells the story of an engaged Philadelphia policeman who falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
The movie tells the story of a middle-aged drag queen still dealing with the loss of his longtime lover meets a 12-year-old girl who has no home and decides to take in the girl with her drug addict mother to together raise her.
Waitresses at a Georgia restaurant, Nisi and Mickey, decide to fly to Los Angeles for a music-video audition in order to raise money for their dream project, instead they scam a dying millionaire but eventually become B*A*P*S (Black American Princesses).
Hollywood Shuffle follows the attempts of Bobby Taylor, his dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer and the mental and external roadblocks he encounters, represented through a series of interspersed vignettes and fantasies.
A teenage boy (Michael Pagan) tries to save his superhero parents (Robert Townsend, Cynthia Alex Datcher) from a criminal mastermind, despite not having any super powers of his own.
An unassuming teacher, Jefferson Reed lives and works in an urban area plagued by a tough gang. Jeff then becomes a super-powered hero and takes on the gang that has been terrorizing his streets.
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Holiday Heart
B*A*P*S
Hollywood Shuffle
Up, Up, and Away
The Meteor Man