18. Fruitvale Station
A prescient film if ever there was one, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station tells the real-life story of Oscar Grant, a young black male whose death at the hands of a white police officer was famously captured on video in 2008. Grant was unarmed and cuffed when he was shot, and that sense of injustice rings throughout the film and throughout Michael B. Jordan's (playing Grant) sensitive performance, as we see a likeable, admittedly troubled young man live out what would be his last day on earth. Jordan, better known elsewhere as Wallace from The Wire (and more recently the failed Fantastic Four reboot), plays Grant as loyal friend, son, and father, but there is always a feeling of trouble around the corner, and the film and its central role have an impending sense of doom about them. The real-life incident is an all-too-familiar occurrence stateside, so the film - and Jordans performance - consequently take on an extra air of unfortunate significance.