Best "african american" Movies of All Time

58 movies found (page 1/2):

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story(2009)

1h 26min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 248 votes)

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

Directed by Thomas Carter - With Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Little(2019)

1h 48min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 315 votes)

Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.

Directed by Tina Gordon Chism - With Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Marsai Martin, Tone Bell, Justin Hartley, Rachel Dratch, ...

The Banker(2020)

2h | Drama

3.8/5 (with 333 votes)

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

Directed by George Nolfi - With Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long, Jessie T. Usher, Samuel L. Jackson

The Blackening(2023)

1h 36min | Horror, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 77 votes)

Seven black friends go away for the weekend, only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. They must pit their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies against the murderer to stay alive.

Directed by Tim Story - With Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Sinqua Walls, Grace Byers, Melvin Gregg, Jermaine Fowler, ...

Shaft(2000)

| 1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 544 votes)

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

Directed by John Singleton - With Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Richard Roundtree, Busta Rhymes, ...

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Respect(2021)

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| 2h 25min | Drama, Music, History

3.4/5 (with 159 votes)

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

Directed by Liesl Tommy - With Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, ...

Waves(2019)

2h 16min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.7/5 (with 256 votes)

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

Directed by Trey Edward Shults - With Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sterling K. Brown

The Last Black Man in San Francisco(2019)

2h | Drama

3.6/5 (with 128 votes)

Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.

Directed by Joe Talbott - With Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Rob Morgan, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock, ...

The Wood(1999)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 42 votes)

In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

Directed by Rick Famuyiwa - With Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, Taye Diggs, Sean Nelson, Malinda Williams, Jascha Washington, ...

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Holiday Rush(2019)

1h 34min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 98 votes)

After his sudden firing, a popular radio DJ moves in with his aunt, bringing along his four spoiled children, and a plan to return to the airwaves.

Directed by Leslie Small

The Wiz(1978)

2h 14min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Music

3.0/5 (with 113 votes)

Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, ...

We Grown Now(2024)

1h 33min | Drama

Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 1992 Chicago.

Directed by Minhal Baig - With Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Avery Holliday, Ora Jones, Lil Rel Howery, ...

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Uncle Tom(2020)

1h 46min | Documentary, History

3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a unique look at being black in America. Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative. In this eye-opening film from Director Justin Malone and Executive Producer Larry Elder, Uncle Tom examines self-empowerment, individualism and rejecting the victim narrative. Uncle Tom shows us a different perspective of American History from this often ignored and ridiculed group.

Directed by Justin Malone

Saving God(2008)

1h 41min | Crime, Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Ex Con Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) returns to home a changed man looking to take over his father's old church and congregation. The neighborhood though is full of drugs and gangs. Those who are able are leaving for more prosperous areas and falling in with a slick preacher (Ricardo Chivara). Even with a dangerous gang leader (Dean McDermott) threatening his flock, Armstrong won't give up.

Directed by Duane Crichton - With Ving Rhames

Life Is Hot in Cracktown(2009)

1h 39min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo - With Kerry Washington, Shannyn Sossamon, Brandon Routh, Lara Flynn Boyle, RZA, Victor Rasuk, ...

Nothing But a Man(1964)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 12 votes)

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Directed by Michael Roemer - With Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Yaphet Kotto, Gloria Foster, Julius Harris

Salesmen(2022)

1h 21min | Comedy

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Four door-to-door salesmen struggle to get by while pursuing an analog profession in a digital world. They unwittingly begin selling propaganda for a cult, whose popularity sweeps the city, leaving the salesmen as the only people who can stop it.

Black Is… Black Ain’t(1994)

1h 27min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.

Directed by Marlon Riggs - With Cornel West, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Essex Hemphill, Bill T. Jones, Marlon Riggs, ...

Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare(2019)

2h 15min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective.

Death Ranch(2020)

1h 18min | Horror, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, the three must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.

I Do Bidoo Bidoo: Heto nApo sila!(2012)

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Rock Polotan and Tracy Fuentebella are teenage sweethearts and both nursing students in a university in Manila are in love and full of dreams. A youthful indiscretion leads them to early parenthood, a situation they face squarely, and quite maturely, by planning to get married. They shortly realize, however, that the problem behind their wedding plans has less to do with themselves than with their own parents.

Directed by Chris Martinez - With Sam Concepcion, Tippy Dos Santos, Eugene Domingo, Gary Valenciano, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Ogie Alcasid, ...

The Black List: Volume One(2008)

1h 27min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

As a new chapter begins in this country, THE BLACK LIST offers a dynamic and never-before-heard perspective from achievers of color. This series of inspired - and inspiring - observations on African-American life in the 21st century forms a roll call of some of the most compelling politicians, writers, thinkers and performers ever to tackle their fields of endeavor. Watch the interview-portraits and get a sharper snapshot of where this country has been and where it's headed.

The Education of Sonny Carson(1974)

1h 44min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.

Directed by Michael Campus - With Don Gordon, Joyce Walker, Paul Benjamin, Mary Alice

Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny(2017)

7min | War, Documentary

A little-known story of the Indian Wars involves the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the conquest of the Apache tribes.

Lying Lips(1939)

1h 20min | Drama

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.

Directed by Oscar Micheaux - With Edna Mae Harris, Robert Earl Jones, Juano Hernández

Echoes 'Cross the Tracks(2023)

1h 45min | Documentary, History, Music

A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman shares his story of his experience of growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi and his love for the Blues.

Runaway(1989)

58min | Drama, TV Movie

After witnessing the accidental death of a friend who was attempting to rescue him from bullies, an African-American boy blames himself and, stricken with guilt, hides out among underground street people in New York.

Remembering Port Chicago(2017)

10min | War, Documentary

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished, and the White officers in charge were protected by the chain of command.

The Youngest Evangelist(2021)

2h 13min | Drama, Kids & Family, Music

Based on a True Story, we journey back to 1980 to see John King, a 10yr old African American boy, see his mother experience the Joy of Salvation, after witnessing her endure domestic violence, to then desire and experience Salvation deeply for himself. He then begins a hard journey and increases in his love for God, which results in him answering the call to Evangelism. See him in his everyday life, at home, school, church, and play, as he learns the importance of being obedient and respecting his parents, teachers, and elders by facing the consequences of his actions. The underline story is a true return to core parenting by introducing our youth to the Lord at a young age. Other short cross sub-stories involve using wisdom dealing with a dreaded disease, the lack of respect for our public school educators, and the irreplaceable benefits of continuing to offer music/band programs in schools.

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color(2021)

20min | Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.

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