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Sanford and Son
(1972 TV series)
The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son. |
8.1/10 | 1,044 |
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Nothing But a Man
(1964)
A devil-may-care young man is drawn to a grounded young woman, they part, he realizes he prefers stability to freedom... |
7.9/10 | 382 |
| 3 |
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Hallelujah!
(1929)
In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps game... |
7.1/10 | 456 |
| 4 |
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St. Louis Blues
(1929 short)
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty... |
" | 63 |
| 5 |
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Carmen Jones
(1954)
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. |
7.0/10 | 1,521 |
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My Wife and Kids
(2001 TV series)
Michael Kyle longs for a traditional life, but his day-trader wife Janet, gangsta rap-worshipping son Michael Jr., and brooding daughters Claire and Kady make his dream just that ... a dream. |
6.9/10 | 3,126 |
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Coonskin
(1975)
A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit... |
6.8/10 | 552 |
| 8 |
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King for a Day
(1934 short)
A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star. |
" | 15 |
| 9 |
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Sunday Sinners (1940) | 6.6/10 | 7 |
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Midway
(2007 short)
Several black men of various ages work in a barbershop and await important news. |
" | 31 |
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| 11 | Wages of Sin (1929) | 6.4/10 | 54 | |
| 12 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) | 6.2/10 | 4,979 | |
| 13 | Harlem on the Prairie (1937) | 6.0/10 | 10 | |
| 14 | Veiled Aristocrats (1932) | 5.9/10 | 5 | |
| 15 | Dark Manhattan (1937) | " | 20 | |
| 16 | Idlewild (2006) | " | 2,903 | |
| 17 | Spirit of Youth (1938) | 5.8/10 | 38 | |
| 18 | Beware (1946) | " | 14 | |
| 19 | Broken Strings (1940) | 5.7/10 | 24 | |
| 20 | Harlem Rides the Range (1939) | 5.5/10 | 48 | |
| 21 | Go Down, Death! (1944) | " | 33 | |
| 22 | Mystery in Swing (1940) | 5.3/10 | 38 | |
| 23 | Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938) | " | 50 | |
| 24 | I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks) (2007) | " | 543 | |
| 25 | The Black King (1932) | 5.2/10 | 8 | |
| 26 | The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) | " | 39 | |
| 27 | A Black Sherlock Holmes (1918 short) | 4.8/10 | 8 | |
| 28 | Paradise in Harlem (1939) | 4.5/10 | 27 | |
| 29 | Moon Over Harlem (1939) | 4.4/10 | 71 | |
| 30 | Stomp the Yard (2007) | 4.2/10 | 13,049 | |
| 31 | The Fat Albert Easter Special (1982 TV short) | 4.1/10 | 8 | |
| 32 | Don't Play Us Cheap (1973) | 3.8/10 | 136 | |
| 33 | Murder with Music (1941) | " | 21 | |
| 34 | Son of Ingagi (1940) | 3.7/10 | 39 | |
| 35 | Cutthroat Alley (2003) | 2.4/10 | 209 | |
| 36 | The Embalmer (1996) | 1.7/10 | 35 | |
| 37 | Zombiez (2005 video) | 1.4/10 | 363 | |
| 38 | By Right of Birth (1921) | |||
| 39 | Harlem Is Heaven (1932) | |||
| 40 | Temptation (1935) | |||
| 41 | Gangsters on the Loose (1937) | |||
| 42 | Life Goes On (1938) | |||
| 43 | Double Deal (1939) | |||
| 44 | One Dark Night (1939) | |||
| 45 | Straight to Heaven (1939) | |||
| 46 | Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941) | |||
| 47 | Take My Life (1942) | |||
| 48 | Voodoo Devil Drums (1944 short) | |||
| 49 | The Green-Eyed Monster (1919) | |||
| 50 | The Dungeon (1922) | |||
| 51 | The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921) | |||
| 52 | Way Down Yonder (1936 short) | |||
| 53 | Easy Street (1930) | |||
| 54 | Harlem After Midnight (1934) | |||
| 55 | Uncle Jasper's Will (1922) | |||
| 56 | When Men Betray (1928) | |||
| 57 | What Goes Up (1939) | |||
| 58 | What a Guy (1948) | |||
| 59 | Gone Harlem (1938) | |||
| 60 | Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (1918 short) | |||
| 61 | A Milk Fed Hero (1918 short) | |||
| 62 | The Porters (1918 short) | |||
| 63 | A Reckless Rover (1918 short) | |||
| 64 | Spying the Spy (1918 short) | |||
| 65 | Spooks (1918 short) | |||
| 66 | Are Working Girls Safe? (1918 short) | |||
| 67 | When You Are Scared, Run (1918 short) | |||
| 68 | The Comeback of Barnacle Bill (1918 short) | |||
| 69 | A Busted Romance (1918 short) | |||
| 70 | The Hypocrites (1917 short) | |||
| 71 | Black and Tan Mix Up (1918 short) | |||
| 72 | Devil for a Day (1917 short) | |||
| 73 | The Bully (1918 short) | |||
| 74 | When You Hit, Hit Hard (1918 short) | |||
| 75 | Wrong All Around (1917 short) | |||
| 76 | Laugh Jubilee (1946) | |||
| 77 | Billy the Janitor (1918 short) | |||
| 78 | Phantom of Kenwood (1933) | |||
| 79 | Melody Makers Series (1932 short) | |||
| 80 | The Joint Is Jumpin' (1949) | |||
| 81 | Stars on Parade (1946 short) | |||
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