
January 6, 1968 · 58 years old
John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 - April 28, 2019) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. A native of South Los Angeles, many of his films consider the implications of inner-city violence like the critically acclaimed and popular Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Lea…

Former cop Brian O'Conner is called upon to bust a dangerous criminal and he recruits the help of a former childhood friend and street racer who has a chance to redeem himself.

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.

A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.

New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.

In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.

Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.

Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).

When the thugs who killed his father come looking for him, a young Latino man and his mother flee from their home.