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Now showing — Underground · 5 works

  • 8 Mile Film · 2000s

    A young white rapper battles his way through Detroit's underground scene. Curtis Hanson channels Eminem's origin story into a working-class pressure cooker.

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  • Underground Film · 1990s

    Underground is a 1995 film from France, Germany, and Bulgaria, associated with Emir Kusturica. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

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  • Pose Television · 2010s

    Pose is an American drama television series about New York City's ball culture, an LGBTQ subculture in the African-American and Latino communities, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Featured characters are dancers and models, who compete for trophies and recognition in this underground culture and who support one anot...

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  • The Underground Railroad Television · 2020s

    A literal railroad beneath the earth. Colson Whitehead's novel as Barry Jenkins dreamscape.

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  • Horses Music · 1970s

    Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, released on November 10, 1975 by Arista Records. Smith, supported by her regular backing band, recorded the album at Electric Lady Studios in September 1975, choosing former Velvet Underground member John Cale as the album's producer.

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