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, captivating, serious, touching, thought provoking and feel good films and TV shows about / with black american, african american, black, drinking alcohol, friendship, father son relationship, family relations, cigarette smoking, drink and racism plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, China and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as black american: Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Green Book (2018), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Marksman (2005), The Cleveland Show (2009), BlacKkKlansman (2018), The Great Debaters (2007), Disappearing Acts (2000), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Sugar Hill (1974).
Best films
List of black american movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 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, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
black american, african american, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, mother son relationship, happy ending, vengeance, islam, life philosophy, family bonds ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, georgia
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507K
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
Plot:
racism, travel, interracial friendship, road trip, journey, friendship, racial prejudice, friend, on the road, musician, dignity, black american ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
bronx new york city, southern usa, america, new york, los angeles ...
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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:
surreal, philosophical, funny, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
black american, social satire, corporation, labor union, african american, absurdism, satire, slave labor, labor strike, capitalism, slavery, anti capitalism ...
Place:
oakland california, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, captivating, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, black american, military, soldier, sniper, apache, heroes, rescue, heroic mission, frame up, daring rescue, political conspiracy ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families ...
Style:
adult animation, sitcom, not serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
black american, blended family, family life, parents and children, starting over, family relations, ethnic humor, family man, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, black family, dark humor ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
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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:
inspirational, semi serious, captivating, factual, thought provoking ...
Plot:
racism, african american, ku klux klan, undercover cop, white supremacy, racial slur, racist cop, black cop, racist, activist, black american, arrest ...
Time:
70s, year 2017, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
usa, colorado, africa
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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, feel good ...
Plot:
racism, teacher, debate, mentor, african american, college, professor, black american, segregation, contests and competitions, prejudice, labor union ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
texas, california, africa, oklahoma, manhattan new york city ...
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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:
couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, looking for love, love affair, family problems, couple relations, opposites attract, lovers reunited, family relations, musician's life, love and romance, starting over ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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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:
captivating, realistic, inspirational, touching, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, african american, racism, prison, love, police, love story, black american, injustice, wrongful conviction, dating, pregnancy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
puerto rico, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, blaxploitation, vengeance, murder, black american, frame up, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, swamp, suspense, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, exploitation ...
Time:
70s
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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, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, prison, infidelity, black american, boxer, sport, rise and fall, prison life, racism, discrimination, rivalry, downfall ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 50s, 70s
Place:
usa, missouri
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11K
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, rough, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
law enforcement, fighting crime, gunfight, power struggle, ex military, society, priest, african american, racial slur, black american, honest law enforcer, corruption ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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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:
uplifting, serious, rough, queer cinema
Plot:
musician, african american, blues, racism, black american, lgbt, stuttering, suspense, female protagonist, promise, fired from the job, pianist ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
chicago illinois, harlem, washington d.c., memphis, atlanta georgia ...
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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:
compassionate, disturbing, psychological, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
death row, lethal injection, prison, prison warden, black american, retirement, innocence, teacher, african american, lawyer, husband wife relationship, drunkenness ...
Place:
usa
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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:
disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
poverty, name calling, black american, police detective, husband wife relationship, waitress, theft, mother daughter relationship, policewoman, ambulance, street life, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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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:
captivating, disturbing, sincere, sad, exciting ...
Plot:
rap, aspiring musician, black american, fat woman, rapper, loneliness, friendship, aspiration, grandmother granddaughter relationship, depression, overweight woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
new jersey, new york
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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, melancholic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, urban ghetto life, culture clash, interracial relations, friendship, family relations, disney, black american, parents and children, teenage love, discrimination, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1968
Place:
usa, washington d.c., south africa, california, africa ...
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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, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
kidnapper, missing child, kidnapping, baby, black american, family relations, family problems, parents and children, hopes, uncover truth, redemption, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, 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:
feel good, not serious, humorous, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
translator, african american, black american, comedian, artists and showbiz, partners, blacks and whites, impersonating, social problems, friends, racial slur, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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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, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
on the run, racist cop, first date, african american, police officer killed, riot, police officer, dysfunctional family, manhunt, black american, running from police, attorney ...
Place:
florida, cleveland ohio, miami, kentucky, ohio ...
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629K
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:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
racism, cult, suspense, brainwashing, hypnosis, survival, interracial romance, manipulation, kidnapping, african american, paranoia, abduction ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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440K
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:
thought provoking, touching, bleak, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, prejudice, multiple storylines, plot twist, sexual harassment, racist, racial tension, social injustice, redemption, class differences, city life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, puerto rico, santa monica california ...
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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:
sad, surreal, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
poverty, magic realism, climate change, children, global warming, father daughter relationship, childhood, community, child protagonist, coming of age, flood, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa, tokyo
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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, motivational, inspirational, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
money, racism, banker, investor, black american, african american, black history, racial slur, personal assistant, segregation, friendship, prejudice ...
Time:
60s, year 1939, 2020s, 50s, year 1954 ...
Place:
america, los angeles, washington d.c.
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34K
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 ...
Plot:
post traumatic stress disorder, heroin, drug addiction, war veteran, group therapy, drug use, iraq war veteran, masturbation, society, american soldier, black american, african american ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Nick comes to New York to temporarily live with a jazz musician friend of his late father's named Cal while his mom is in rehab. During his time in the city, he befriends a group of kids who show him what New York has to offer.
Style:
captivating, unusual plot structure, melancholic, psychological, contemplative
Audience:
teens
Plot:
18 year old, friendship, teenage boy, underage drinking, drug dealer, teenager, black american, loss of father, musician, african american, male camaraderie, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
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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, captivating, feel good, light, exciting
Plot:
gangsters, heist, hitman, police, money, murder, urban setting, black american, hillbilly, fbi agent, african american, sex ...
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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:
serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, human spirit, teacher student relationship, new job, changing lives, challenge, hopes, hardcase students, power relations, obstacle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place:
harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner hangout to discus their latest misadventures with their miserable lives
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, sexy ...
Plot:
friendship, looking for sex, group of friends, diner, teenager, youth, twentysomething life, partners, life is a bitch, dull life, black american, cabaret ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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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:
sexy, realistic, serious, spiritual, sexual ...
Plot:
seductress, love, law student, couples, love and romance, love affair, friendship, fall in love, african american, student, black american, seduction ...
Time:
21st century
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