Good & Great Black Movies
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- DirectorChris RockStarsChris RockRosario DawsonGabrielle UnionA comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality television star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her television show.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
- DirectorCraig BrewerStarsTerrence HowardLudacrisAnthony AndersonWith help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsChadwick BosemanNelsan EllisDan AykroydA chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
- DirectorBrian HelgelandStarsChadwick BosemanT.R. KnightHarrison FordIn 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.
- DirectorJustin SimienStarsTyler James WilliamsTessa ThompsonKyle GallnerThe lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.
- DirectorMalcolm D. LeeStarsIce CubeRegina HallAnthony AndersonAs their surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, the crew at Calvin's Barbershop come together to bring some much needed change to their neighborhood.
- DirectorTim StoryStarsIce CubeCedric The EntertainerEveA day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.
- DirectorKevin Rodney SullivanStarsIce CubeCedric The EntertainerEveThe owner of an historic South Side Chicago barbershop is pressured to sell out to a land developer, but must face the impact this would have on his close-knit community.
- DirectorRoger MelvinStarsTamara BassChace BeckDawn HalfkennyTo appease her family during the holidays, a single woman pretends to be engaged to her employee.
- DirectorPreston A. Whitmore IIStarsRegina KingColumbus ShortDelroy LindoA Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family's first holiday together in four years.
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsDenzel WashingtonWhitney HoustonCourtney B. VanceAn angel comes to Earth to help a preacher save his church and his family.
- DirectorMalcolm D. LeeStarsMonica CalhounMorris ChestnutMelissa De SousaWhen college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
- DirectorLance RiveraStarsGabrielle UnionMorris ChestnutQueen LatifahA young girl turns to a department store Santa in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother.
- DirectorMalcolm D. LeeStarsTaye DiggsNia LongMorris ChestnutJust before his best friend's wedding, the life of a Chicago writer becomes crazy when his best friend guesses that his new book's story is based on his bride's fervent past.
- DirectorRick FamuyiwaStarsAmerica FerreraForest WhitakerCarlos MenciaThe weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to rest.
- DirectorDavid E. TalbertStarsKimberly EliseOmar EppsDanny GloverA dysfunctional family gathers for their first Christmas since their mother died.
- DirectorBille WoodruffStarsTerrence JenkinsCassie VenturaPaula PattonA playboy named Charlie, convinced that all his relationships are dead, meets the beautiful and mysterious Eva. Agreeing to a casual affair, Charlie then wants a bit more from their relationship.
- DirectorRyan CooglerStarsChadwick BosemanMichael B. JordanLupita Nyong'oT'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.
- DirectorReginald HudlinStarsChadwick BosemanJosh GadKate HudsonThe story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsForest WhitakerEric BanaJeff GumAfter the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsSanaa LathanRicky WhittleLyriq BentViolet Jones tired of waiting for her longtime boyfriend to propose, breaks up with him. But old feelings, and heaps of jealousy, no doubt, arise when he promptly begins dating another woman.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn David WashingtonAdam DriverLaura HarrierRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
- DirectorBoaz YakinStarsDenzel WashingtonWill PattonWood HarrisIn 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.
- DirectorMalcolm D. LeeStarsKevin HartTiffany HaddishRob RiggleA group of high school dropouts is forced to attend night school in hopes that they will pass the GED exam to finish high school.