Black american movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant black american movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, captivating, suspense and social films and TV shows about / with black american, african american, black, drinking, cigarette smoking, family relations, drink, black history, money and racism plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, China and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as black american: Where Is Kyra? (2017), Green Book (2018), Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008), BlacKkKlansman (2018), Clemency (2019), Disappearing Acts (2000), The Banker (2020), Detroit (2017), The Great Debaters (2007), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).

List of black american movies

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Where Is Kyra? (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: black american, name calling, poverty, husband wife relationship, police detective, mother daughter relationship, street life, lie, ex husband ex wife relationship, illness, african american, theft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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 8.2
 561K
Green Book (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style: road movie, feel good, uplifting, funny, captivating ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: racism, road trip, travel, musician, interracial friendship, driver, friendship, racial prejudice, on the road, journey, black american, friend ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: bronx new york city, southern usa, america, new york, nebraska ...
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Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Martin Lawrence leads an all-star cast, including Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, and Mike Epps, in the hit comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins." When a celebrated TV show host (Lawrence) returns to his hometown in the South, his ...
Style: humorous, funny, semi serious, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: black american, black, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, african american, brother brother relationship, mother son relationship, happy ending, love, black history, hip hop ...
Time: year 2008, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, los angeles
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 7.5
 289K
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become the head of the local chapter.
Style: informative, political, dark comedy, social, inspirational ...
Plot: racism, white supremacy, ku klux klan, african american, undercover cop, racial slur, racist cop, black, biopic, black lives matter, black cop, black american ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1972
Place: usa, africa, colorado
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 6.5
 5K
Clemency (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, compassionate, suspenseful ...
Plot: death row, lethal injection, prison, prison warden, black american, black, retirement, death sentence, teacher, innocence, guilt, demonstration ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
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Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 7.3
 35K
The Banker (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
Style: touching, inspirational, captivating, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: money, racism, banker, investor, black american, entrepreneurship, african american, black, new house, white supremacy, business, friendship between men ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1939, 1950s, year 1963 ...
Place: los angeles, washington d.c., america
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 7.3
 56K
Detroit (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style: suspense, hood, social, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot: racism, murder, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, police, riot, trial, violence, fear, motel, african american ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, year 2017, 2010s, year 1969 ...
Place: michigan, detroit
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The Great Debaters (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African American college students into an historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Style: inspirational, realistic, touching, political, emotional ...
Plot: racism, teacher, debate, mentor, african american, professor, biopic, segregation, college, discrimination, black american, racial segregation ...
Time: 1930s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: texas, africa, oklahoma, harvard university, harlem ...
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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
Style: inspirational, social, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: african american, sex scene, racism, prison, police, love, dating, love story, injustice, black american, wrongful conviction, black ...
Time: 2010s, 70s
Place: puerto rico, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city
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 5.5
 845
Phantom Punch (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous 'Phantom Punch' by Cassius Clay which effectively ended his career, the movie spans the years from 1950 to Liston's mysterious and ...
Style: realistic, captivating, rough, serious, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxer, boxing, infidelity, prison, black american, rise and fall, lifestyle, rise to the top, athlete's life, tragic hero, contests and competitions, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s, 70s, 1950s
Place: usa, missouri
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 7.5
 11K
Copper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: law enforcement, fighting crime, gunfight, american civil war, power struggle, ex military, society, priest, african american, racial slur, black american, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1860s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style: rough, serious, uplifting, suspense, visual ...
Plot: african american, musician, blues, black, racism, black american, lgbt, jazz, black history, bigger dreams, stuttering, fired from the job ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s
Place: chicago, harlem, detroit, memphis, birmingham alabama ...
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 6.8
 11K
Patti Cake$ (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, exciting, independent film ...
Plot: fat woman, rap, musician, aspiring musician, black american, rapper, friendship, loneliness, aspiration, depression, overweight woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new jersey, new york
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The Color of Friendship (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a ...
Style: semi serious, touching, contemplative, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: urban ghetto life, youth, family relations, culture clash, friendship, interracial relations, black american, parents and children, teenage love, family problems, injustice, discrimination ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1977
Place: usa, washington d.c., california, south africa, africa ...
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Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A baby abducted at birth and raised by the woman who took her, eventually discovers she is a missing child, reconnects with her birth parents, and struggles with choosing between her two identities.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: kidnapper, missing child, kidnapping, black american, baby, parents and children, family problems, family relations, hopes, uncover truth, missing daughter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 8.3
 26K
Key & Peele (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key ...
Style: sketch comedy, feel good, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: comedian, translator, sketch, african american, black american, artists and showbiz, partner, blacks and whites, racial slur, social problems, friends, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 34K
Queen & Slim (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a ...
Style: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racist cop, on the run, first date, african american, black, police officer killed, riot, dysfunctional family, police officer, dating, manhunt, black american ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: florida, cleveland ohio, cuba, georgia, miami ...
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 7.8
 688K
Get Out (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, brainwashing, interracial romance, survival, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, african american protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, future, 21st century
Place: indiana, brooklyn new york city, new york
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 7.3
 18K
Trade (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, detective ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, slavery, missing child, sexual abuse, sex slavery, child molestation, sexual assault, rape victim, forced prostitution, child rape, rescue ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, mexico city, el paso texas, poland, texas ...
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 7.7
 448K
Crash (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style: bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia, santa monica california ...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style: independent film, sad, surreal, emotional, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: poverty, climate change, children, global warming, father daughter relationship, childhood, community, magic realism, child protagonist, coming of age, flood, single father ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa, southern usa
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Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, mindfuck, captivating ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: black american, social satire, labor union, capitalism, satire, absurdism, absurd humor, labor strike, slave labor, protest, slavery, surrealism ...
Time: 90s, 2010s
Place: oakland california, california
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Terror Lake Drive (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: A single mother tries to dodge her troubled past by relocating to another city with her defiant teenager, only to discover there are forces that cannot be outrun.
Style: suspense, dramatic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: teenager, african american, black american, fear, life is a bitch, parents and children, family relations, female protagonist, small town, fight, supernatural power, psychological drama
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 37K
Cherry (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
Style: psychological, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: post traumatic stress disorder, heroin, drug use, american soldier, drug addiction, war veteran, group therapy, iraq war veteran, junkie, society, threat to kill, self pity ...
Time: year 2007, 2020s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.9
 611
The Dynamiter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, youth, family relations, family problems, american football, social relations, innocence lost, small town life, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa
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Underbelly Blues (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Uforic, a cowardly gangster rapper, hitches a ride with York, a redneck who takes him out to the desert to execute him for fun. But before York is able to pull the trigger, Uforic tells him about a secret transaction involving a mysterious briefcase ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, hood
Plot: gangster, hitman, heist, money, murder, police, urban setting, fbi agent, hillbilly, black american, dwarf, prison ...
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The Ron Clark Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matthew Perry is real-life inspiration Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Clark must use unconventional methods, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, human spirit, new job, changing lives, teacher student relationship, education, hardcase students, obstacle, hopes, bad attitude ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place: harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, talky ...
Plot: courtroom, supreme court, boxing, injustice, righting the wronged, ambition, legal action, against the odds, political unrest, cigarette smoking, justice, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1971
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 6.7
 94
Love Trap (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Drama - Richard, a law student, is hanging out with the guys at a sports bar. When Angel, a seductive vixen, appears from nowhere and smothers him with attention, he's embarrassed. Faced with temptation, Richard makes an innocent suggestion ...
Style: realistic, serious, spiritual, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: seductress, law student, love, love and romance, couples, love affair, friendship, fall in love, african american, black american, student, black ...
Time: 21st century
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