Women of color movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant women of color movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, sincere, emotional and sentimental films and TV shows about / with women of color, women, black, strong female presence, coming of age, family relations, mother daughter relationship, woman, society and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
women of color
TOP 10 movies tagged as women of color: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Something New (2006), Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), In Between Days (2006), Night Catches Us (2010), Caramel (2007), Luck by Chance (2009), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), Treeless Mountain (2008).
Best films
List of women of color movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, gambling, marriage, love, jealousy, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, dysfunctional family, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
florida
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
racism, african american, civil rights, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, teenager, social differences ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
south carolina, africa, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
Style:
romantic, sexy, humorous, light, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
interracial romance, interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racism, opposites attract, african american, career woman, prejudice, culture clash, race issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, london, los angeles, east africa, africa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style:
touching, depressing, sincere, gloomy, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, heroin, life is a bitch, grief, haunted by the past, love and romance, loss of spouse, character study, best friend, childhood, starting over, coping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, youth, love, couples, women of color, korean american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
social relations, injustice, homecoming, haunted by the past, political unrest, social differences, society, teenage life, working class, corrupt law enforcer, african american, black love ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, africa
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14K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.
Style:
romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, sexual attraction, lesbian, friendship, self discovery, actress, wedding, police officer, love and romance, workplace, couples, gender ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, lebanon, israel, beirut lebanon, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, cult film
Plot:
ambition, rise to the top, underdog, lifestyle, showbiz, starlet, actor's life, artists and showbiz, introspection, selfishness, rehearsal, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, goa india, new delhi, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A widowed metro conductor, approaching retirement, lives with his beautiful grown daughter – the object of a neighbor’s romantic interest. The man’s former girlfriend also lives in their building and plays a role in their closely-knit lives. ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, looking for love, single parent, human nature, lifestyle, love affair, midlife crisis, parents and children, love and romance, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, women of color ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
Style:
psychological, sincere, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, children, single parent, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family in crisis, when the parents are away, sister sister relationship, child's point of view, child protagonist, absent mother, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, society, addiction, human nature, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, child abuse, women of color, racial issues ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, mississippi, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.
Style:
captivating, emotional, sincere, serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
prison, self discovery, introspection, family problems, supportive spouse, human nature, medical school, family in crisis, blaxploitation, hopes, love, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style:
touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt teen, african american, coming out, lesbian teen, teenage sexuality, lgbtq, introspection, lesbianism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, africa, new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, society, hopes, youth, coming of age, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Qatar
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, sincere, uplifting, humorous ...
Plot:
islam, religious differences, peaceful mission, village, disagreement, society, strong female character, religion, christianity, religious conflict, religious, civil war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teenage life, couple relations, teenage girl, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, family relations, uncover truth, parents and children, under the surface, life turned upside down, disorder, secret, african american, suspense, women of color, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
Style:
sexual, serious, captivating, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, coming of age, teenage life, bisexual girl, bisexual, mother daughter relationship, teenage sex, sex addict, female orgasm, lesbian, youth, oral sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight ...
Style:
touching, talky, stylized, feminist film, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
childhood, bicycle, islam, muslim, muslim girl, children, school, gender, dreams, coming of age, women, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
saudi arabia, middle east, iran, japan
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style:
scary, surreal, stylized, dark, art house ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, drugs, cat, loneliness, suspense, murder, prostitute, women, father son relationship, being followed, following someone ...
Place:
iran, middle east, california
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32K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, inspirational, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
slavery, racism, interracial relations, society, aristocracy, social differences, love and romance, high society, forbidden love, white male black female relationship, victorian england, slave ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, 1780s
Place:
england, london, africa, europe, vienna ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, pregnancy, family life, family problems, realism, husband wife relationship, marriage, psychiatrist, baby, working class, women of color, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine , can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. Even the six-year-old ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian cunnilingus, lesbian, self discovery, loneliness, lesbian relationship, introspection, rebelliousness, rebellion, couples, lgbtq, gender, bisexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, serious, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, existentialism, distopia, unemployment, imagination, parenthood, corporation, transformation, life is a bitch, family relations, society, single parent ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, melancholic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
music, suicide attempt, mother daughter relationship, musician, love, pop star, showbiz, police officer, domineering mother, musician's life, relationship vs career, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, mexico, united kingdom
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, London, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, touching, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage girl, cheating boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, urban setting, female protagonist, dating, jealousy, shoplifting, teenage boy, mother son relationship, twists and turns, coming of age ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, light, sincere ...
Plot:
nature, teenage love, island, teenage life, investigation, youth, love, young love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, swimming, boyhood, women of color ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
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10K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, feminist film ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, society, teenager, youth, peer pressure, street gang, against the rules, drugs, dull life, teenage life, innocence lost ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, factual, gloomy ...
Plot:
blues, black lgbt, lesbian, rise to the top, musician's life, african american, artists and showbiz, music, life is a bitch, ambition, rising to stardom, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
usa, tennessee, pennsylvania, southern usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
musician's life, rising to stardom, music, ambition, desire for fame, celebrity culture, couple relations, fall in love, showbiz, addiction, price of fame, pop star ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa
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