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1. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
TV-PG | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula Hoosier
Votes: 3,290 | Gross: $1.64M
2. Eve's Bayou (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield
Votes: 11,614 | Gross: $14.82M
3. The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (2017)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A disillusioned London chef visits Nigeria and struggles with her matchmaking mother and restoring the family's rundown hotel. She's heartbroken when she discovers the man she loves is buying it.
Director: Ishaya Bako | Stars: Zainab Balogun, Kenneth Okolie, Jide Kosoko, Rachael Oniga
Votes: 320
4. Belle (2013)
PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century England.
Director: Amma Asante | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 33,139 | Gross: $10.73M
5. First Match (2018)
TV-MA | 102 min | Drama, Sport
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood decides that joining the boys' wrestling team is the only way back to her estranged father.
Director: Olivia Newman | Stars: Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome
Votes: 2,533
6. Juanita (I) (2019)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama
Fed up with her life, Juanita leaves her grown kids behind and hits the road in search of a fresh start.
Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Bonnie Johnson, Jordan Nia Elizabeth, Acoryé White
Votes: 2,583
7. The Photograph (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present.
Director: Stella Meghie | Stars: Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, Chanté Adams, Y'lan Noel
Votes: 6,207
8. Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Director: Leslie Harris | Stars: Ariyan A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido, Chequita Jackson
Votes: 1,365 | Gross: $0.48M
9. Queen & Slim (2019)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
Director: Melina Matsoukas | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny
Votes: 34,619
10. Miss Juneteenth (2020)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.
Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples | Stars: Nicole Beharie, Liz Mikel, Marcus M. Mauldin, Kendrick Sampson
Votes: 2,161
11. Down in the Delta (1998)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama
In a desperate attempt to change her life, Loretta -- a troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood -- is sent to spend a summer at her family's ancestral home in rural Mississippi.
Director: Maya Angelou | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr., Mary Alice, Esther Rolle
Votes: 1,899 | Gross: $5.66M
12. Middle of Nowhere (2012)
R | 101 min | Drama
Ruby goes on a journey of self-discovery when she drops out of medical school in order to focus on her incarcerated husband's well-being.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Lorraine Toussaint, Edwina Findley
Votes: 1,977 | Gross: $0.08M
13. Baby Mamas (2018)
TV-14 | 93 min | Drama
'Baby Mamas' is a comedy drama revolving around the daily lives and loves of four professional women who are all in different stages of their own real-life baby mama drama. We meet TOLI, ... See full summary »
Director: Stephina Zwane | Stars: Jonathan Boynton-Lee, Sthembiso Khoza, Thembisa Mdoda, Salamina Mosese
Votes: 185
14. The Old Guard (2020)
R | 125 min | Action, Thriller
A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Stars: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari
Votes: 183,668
15. Atlantics (2019)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou
Votes: 10,499
16. Mudbound (2017)
R | 134 min | Drama, War
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 54,399
17. The Sapphires (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.
Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens
Votes: 15,172 | Gross: $2.45M
18. The Great Debaters (2007)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker
Votes: 62,858 | Gross: $30.23M
19. The Black Godfather (2019)
TV-MA | 118 min | Documentary, Biography
Follows the life of Clarence Avant, the ultimate, uncensored mentor and behind-the-scenes rainmaker in music, film, TV and politics.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Clarence Avant, Hank Aaron, Gwen Adolph, Dina R. Andrews
Votes: 1,538
20. Mother of George (2013)
R | 107 min | Drama
Adenike and Ayodele, a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, are having trouble conceiving a child - a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save or destroy her family.
Director: Andrew Dosunmu | Stars: Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Anthony Okungbowa, Bukky Ajayi
Votes: 1,282 | Gross: $0.15M
21. The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.
Director: Radha Blank | Stars: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis
Votes: 5,519
22. Edge of the City (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
The growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire
Votes: 3,587
23. Attack the Block (2011)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
Director: Joe Cornish | Stars: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones
Votes: 111,417 | Gross: $1.02M
24. The Lunchbox (2013)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey
Votes: 60,867 | Gross: $4.23M
25. Sprinter (2018)
114 min | Drama, Sport
A boy separated from his mother who has moved to the U.S. for a better life, is set to be Jamaica's next track-and-field sensation.
Director: Storm Saulter | Stars: David Alan Grier, Lorraine Toussaint, Shantol Jackson, Bryshere Y. Gray
Votes: 529
26. The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (2020 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama
Details the humble beginnings, struggles to find their place, to later becoming the best-selling Gospel group in the music world.
Director: Christine Swanson | Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Raven Goodwin, Ronnie Rowe, Demore Barnes
Votes: 772
27. Sylvie's Love (2020)
PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Director: Eugene Ashe | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King
Votes: 6,447
28. Paris Blues (1961)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Music, Romance
During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong
Votes: 3,960 | Gross: $1.30M
29. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke
Votes: 5,364
30. Fast Color (2018)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After years in hiding, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Director: Julia Hart | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney, David Strathairn
Votes: 7,016 | Gross: $0.08M
31. Road to Yesterday (2015)
91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An estranged couple try to fix their marriage on a road trip to a relative's funeral. However when memories and secrets from the past are revealed, a lot more is at stake than their relationship.
Director: Ishaya Bako | Stars: Genevieve Nnaji, Oris Erhuero, Chioma Omeruah, Baaj Adebule
Votes: 263
32. Black Panther (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira
Votes: 837,557 | Gross: $700.06M
33. The V.I.P.s (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
As fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 4,205 | Gross: $10.21M
34. Anna Lucasta (1958)
Passed | 97 min | Drama
A young woman struggling with a sordid past finds that her biggest enemy had larger demons than she did.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Eartha Kitt, Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram
Votes: 720
35. The African Doctor (2016)
96 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Seyolo Zantoko, who as a freshly graduated doctor of Congolese descent in France, struggled with his family to integrate in a small rural village, and ended up being considered as one of the most respected doctors in the area.
Director: Julien Rambaldi | Stars: Marc Zinga, Aïssa Maïga, Bayron Lebli, Médina Diarra
Votes: 12,008
36. Voodoo Macbeth (2021)
108 min | Drama
In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast production of 'Macbeth' struggles to make it to opening night amid the downward spiral of their young and untested director - Orson Welles.
Directors: Dagmawi Abebe, Victor Alonso-Berbel, Roy Arwas, Hannah Bang, Christopher Beaton, Agazi Desta, Tiffany K. Guillen, Zoe Salnave, Ernesto Sandoval, Sabina Vajraca | Stars: Inger Tudor, Jewell Wilson Bridges, June Schreiner, Jeremy Tardy
Votes: 76
37. The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
TV-MA | 85 min | Comedy
An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendship with a guy while on the rebound from a break-up.
Director: Jim Strouse | Stars: Jessica Williams, Chris O'Dowd, LaKeith Stanfield, Noël Wells
Votes: 8,732
38. See You Yesterday (2019)
TV-MA | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.
Director: Stefon Bristol | Stars: Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow, Astro, Marsha Stephanie Blake
Votes: 11,621
39. The Maiden Heist (2009)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Christopher Walken, Joseph McKenna, Wynn Everett, Patricia B. Till
Votes: 17,585
40. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,626
41. Mr. Soul! (2018)
104 min | Documentary
Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with "SOUL!," America's first "Black Tonight Show." From 1968 to 1973, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Melissa Haizlip, Sam Pollard | Stars: Blair Underwood, Sidney Poitier, Michael Jackson, Diahann Carroll
Votes: 274
42. Little Woods (2018)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Western
In Little Woods North Dakota, two estranged sisters are driven to extremes when their mother dies, leaving them with one week to pay back her mortgage.
Director: Nia DaCosta | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale
Votes: 4,109 | Gross: $0.15M
43. Nothing But a Man (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Votes: 1,984 | Gross: $0.02M
44. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)
R | 106 min | Comedy
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
Director: Adamma Ebo | Stars: Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown, Nicole Beharie, Conphidance
Votes: 4,135
45. The Banker (2020)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Director: George Nolfi | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long
Votes: 35,691
46. The Outside Story (2020)
85 min | Drama
An introverted editor living a vertical life in his 2nd-floor apartment, locks himself out of his building and is forced to go horizontal and confront the world he's been avoiding in search... See full summary »
Director: Casimir Nozkowski | Stars: Brian Tyree Henry, Sonequa Martin-Green, Sunita Mani, Olivia Edward
Votes: 639
47. Wedding Season (2022)
TV-PG | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Pressured by their parents to find spouses, Asha and Ravi pretend to date during a summer of weddings, only to find themselves falling for each other.
Director: Tom Dey | Stars: Pallavi Sharda, Suraj Sharma, Arianna Afsar, Sean Kleier
Votes: 11,137
48. Diva (1981)
R | 117 min | Crime, Music, Thriller
Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer
Votes: 14,315 | Gross: $0.11M
49. Chevalier (2022)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Son of an African slave and a French farmer, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, achieves an unthinkable position in society as a famous violinist, composer and fencer, in addition to experiencing an ill-fated love affair.
Director: Stephen Williams | Stars: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronke Adekoluejo
Votes: 6,833
50. They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
Director: Juel Taylor | Stars: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland
Votes: 40,453
51. A Thousand and One (2023)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama
After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.
Director: A.V. Rockwell | Stars: Teyana Taylor, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Aven Courtney, Josiah Cross
Votes: 6,922
52. In This Our Life (1942)
Approved | 97 min | Drama
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
Directors: John Huston, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 5,259
53. Woman in Motion: Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols and the Transformation of NASA (2021 TV Special)
Documentary about how Nichelle Nichols lobbied NASA for racial and gender diversity. She was a NASA recruiter, many of her recruits became astronauts or other professional contributors to the USA space program.
54. A Naija Christmas (2021)
TV-14 | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A mother's Christmas wish - and the grand prize that comes with it - sets off a fierce competition between her sons.
Director: Kunle Afolayan | Stars: Onikosi Bukola Abisoye, Lateef Adedimeji, Abayomi Alvin, Uzoamaka Aniunoh
Votes: 462
55. Rustin (2023)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen
Votes: 12,493
56. American Fiction (2023)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Director: Cord Jefferson | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander
Votes: 75,661
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