Black family movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant black family movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, humorous, sitcom, feel good and black cinema films and TV shows about / with black family, family relations, african american, black, black history, black woman, black cast, dysfunctional family, parents and children and sister sister relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as black family: My Wife and Kids (2000), Are We There Yet? (2010), Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Meet the Browns (2008), Family Reunion (2019), Bel-Air (2022), Black-ish (2014), Almost Christmas (2016), Soul Food (2000), Everybody Hates Chris (2005).

List of black family movies

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My Wife and Kids (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: My Wife and Kids is an American television family sitcom that ran on ABC from March 28, 2001 until May 17, 2005. Produced by Touchstone Television, it starred Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell-Martin, and centers on the character of Michael Kyle, a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: black family, family relations, african american, black, couple relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, family life, working class, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa
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Are We There Yet? (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Are We There Yet? opens where the popular film of the same name left off, with Nick and Suzanne newly married. After six months, their family is beginning to show growing pains, from the complexities of life as newlyweds to weathering the storm of ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: black family, blended family, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, ex athlete, family life, newlyweds, black cast, african american, black, american culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her sisters and their husbands. Her in-laws, who are tired of Eva interfering in their lives, decide to set her up with someone so she can leave them alone. They ...
Style: feel good, romantic comedy, light, funny, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: sisters, family relations, black, love and romance, couple relations, verbal byplay, shakespeare, hip hop, conspiracy, sister sister relationship, african american, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, los angeles
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Meet the Browns (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, not serious, black comedy ...
Plot: female protagonist, family relations, single parent, death in the family, family gatherings, family life, eccentric family, siblings relations, black, parents and children, small town life, madea ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, georgia
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Family Reunion (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: A free-spirited mom moves her family from the west coast to the Midwest and gets to know her extended family.
Style: sitcom, captivating, light, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: black family, large family, african american, family life, family relations, parents and children, male female relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, humour, living together ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: georgia
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 6.4
 13K
Bel-Air (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: The journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of west Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA’s wealthiest suburbs.
Style: captivating, sitcom, disturbing, psychological
Plot: black family, black, society, criminal, changing lives, lifestyle, new life, social problems, black lives matter, high school, teenage life, teenager ...
Place: beverly hills
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 7.3
 25K
Black-ish (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: african american, family relations, parents and children, family life, black family, social differences, society, disorder, fish out of water, social relations, black sitcom, teenager ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
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Almost Christmas (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.
Style: light, feel good, sincere, captivating, christmas classics ...
Audience: adult
Plot: christmas, black, dysfunctional family, family relations, xmas, new year, parents and children, escapades, adaptation, hopes, society, friendship ...
Time: year 2016, year 2015
Place: georgia, birmingham alabama, atlanta georgia, alabama
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 7.6
 1K
Soul Food (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot: black, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, family feud, family life, couples, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family values, family tradition ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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Everybody Hates Chris (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Everybody Hates Chris is an American television narrative sitcom that depicts the troubled teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock while growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The show is set between 1982 and 1987, but Rock ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, touching, witty ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: comedian, african american, teenage life, youth, sibling rivalry, misfit, family values, friendship, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, social relations ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 7.2
 4K
Raven's Home (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Best friends Raven and Chelsea, now both divorced mothers, are raising their children in a house together. Their house is turned upside down when they realize one of Raven's children inherited the same psychic abilities as their mother.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, sentimental, entertaining
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: single mother, family relations, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, grownups, friendship, kids and family, black family, youth, middle school, school, african american, american culture ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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 7.8
 153K
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...
Style: black and white, retro, aesthetic, existential, social ...
Plot: racism, african american, poverty, racial segregation, civil rights, black, black history, working class family, race issues, family relations, segregation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, nigeria, illinois
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 6.9
 37K
Stay Close (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story: When Carlton Flynn vanishes 17 years to the night after Stewart Green did, it sets off a chain reaction in the lives of people connected to both men.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: reporter, serial killer, photojournalist, media, secret, investigation, husband, detective inspector, haunted by the past, dark past, crime investigation, crime solving ...
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 7.0
 4K
The Upshaws (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, satirical, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: african american, house, black man, family relations, black people, family life, everyday life, humour, lifestyle, eccentric family, social satire, satire ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: indiana
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The Wonder Years (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A coming of age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama through the point-of-view of imaginative 12 year-old Dean. With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and ...
Style: smart, teen comedy
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, black, friends, black cast, friend, black history, african american, father, african american family, domestic drama, house, intelligence ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: alabama
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We Are Who We Are (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 462 min.
TV show
Story: Plot unknown.
Style: inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gays and lesbians, coming of age, forbidden love, lesbian mother, lesbian teen, lgbtq, sexual orientation, gay, lesbian, desire for fame, lgbtqi ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
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Keeping Up with the Joneses (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of patriarch Theodore Jones, his second wife Robin and Theodore's daughters work to protect their family and business after they are threatened.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: strong female lead, heir, family business, family problems, inheritance, money, conspiracy, family relations, problem, businesswoman, money problems, business ...
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Merry Liddle Christmas (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The messy family of a successful, super-together single tech entrepreneur descends on her gleaming new dream home for the holidays. Christmas traditions collide and family drama ensues as she struggles to keep her house together in time for a glossy ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing, sweet
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, love affair, dysfunctional family, neighbor neighbor relationship, male female relationship, couples, promise, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, love, adaptation ...
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 7.8
 129
Never Give Up (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: Sol is a hardworking woman who has the chance to work as a backing vocalist for a funk singer and return to dancing, as she did in her youth. Torn between family pressure and passion for the stage, she must face the judgment of her church's ...
Style: novela, thrilling, captivating, satirical, psychological ...
Plot: relationships, family relations, relationship problems, male female relationship, satire, family problems, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, confronting the past, family life, bisexual, strong female lead ...
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Christmas in Canaan (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.
Style: atmospheric, light, sentimental, captivating
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, childhood, racial prejudice, father son relationship, farm, african american, friendship, family relations, love, society, rivalry, holiday ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: texas, southern usa
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Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The true story of Mahalia Jackson, who began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in U.S. history, melding her music with the civil rights movement.
Style: inspirational
Plot: black history, women, interracial relations, christianity, black family, christian, infertility, racism, black woman, female friendship, new year's eve, civil rights movement ...
Time: 1920s, 70s, 1950s, 60s
Place: chicago, illinois, new orleans, louisiana
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The Christmas Doctor (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A week before Christmas, Dr. Alicia Wright is offered an assignment away from home. A mysterious man from her past journeys to find her before Christmas and brings with him a revelation that could change Alicia’s life forever.
Style: sweet, sentimental, light, feel good, entertaining
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, father daughter relationship, doctor, christmas eve, christmas spirit, friendship, african american, small town, christmas season, clinic, christmas romance ...
Place: new york
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King Lear (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Don Warrington stars as the tragic monarch in this acclaimed version of the Shakespeare play recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: live performance, family feud, king, ambition, father daughter relationship, kingdom, inheritance, sister sister relationship, greed, dementia, sibling rivalry, betrayal ...
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 7.3
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The Fosters (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The first sitcom written both for and starring black actors, The Fosters showcased the early work of Lenny Henry (riding high on a recent win in talent series New Faces) as the budding artist son of easy going family man Samuel Foster (Norman ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: black, family relations, black family, council estate, black british
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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: black, american history, slavery, teacher, blaxploitation, african american, great depression, dysfunctional family, frame up, boycott, miscarriage of justice, black family ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s
Place: mississippi
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The Old Settler (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story: The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but ...
Style: sincere, touching, captivating
Plot: identity crisis, lost love, female friendship, unhappy marriage, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, racial prejudice, age-gap relationship, may december romance, golddigger, black man, loneliness ...
Time: 1940s
Place: harlem, new york, manhattan new york city
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Fight for Your Life (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film ...
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, revenge, home invasion, vengeance, violence, prison escape, black, vigilante, martial arts, sex crime ...
Time: 70s
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 6.8
 552
Black Girl (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Style: social, independent film, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: blaxploitation, black, orphan, black history, african, adoption, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, family relations, redemption, foster home ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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I'm Through with White Girls (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jay Brooks is that black guy who digs indie rock, graphic novels, and dates white chicks. After a slew of bad break-ups, Jay gives up white women, "cold turkey," and he goes on a mission: "Operation Brown Sugar". But because Jay ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, black comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: interracial relations, ethnic stereotype, hip hop, jazz, looking for love, couples, dating, society, lifestyle, wooing, stereotypes, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, canada
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