Black girl movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant black girl movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, black cinema, sincere and sentimental films and TV shows about / with black girl, black, african american, black history, society, gangster, blaxploitation, family relations, hopes and urban plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres shot in USA, France, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as black girl: The Color Purple (1985), Just Wright (2010), Girlhood (2014), Naomi (2022), Eve's Bayou (1997), Phat Girlz (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Beyond the Lights (2014), College Road Trip (2008), Pariah (2011).

List of black girl movies

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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
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 5.9
 16K
Just Wright (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.
Style: rom com, realistic, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: basketball, black, love triangle, looking for love, couples, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle, african american, father daughter relationship, black girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, indiana, philadelphia
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I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The journey of a young African American girl who navigated over 30 foster homes and psychiatric facilities before age 18, and the one woman, Jeanne, who believed in her. After Jeanne’s unsuccessful attempt to adopt Regina due to a racially ...
Style: sentimental, touching, uplifting, motivational
Plot: adoption, foster child, abused child, interracial adoption, black girl, orphan, search for mother, strong female character, mother love, adult child friendship, society, teacher ...
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 7.0
 10K
Girlhood (2014)
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, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, society, teenager, youth, innocence lost, peer pressure, poverty, street gang, against the rules, dull life, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: paris france, africa, france
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 4.9
 6K
Naomi (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Follow a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers will challenge everything we ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, entertaining, exciting
Plot: alien, supernatural ability, superhero, supernatural power, black girl, fight, teenage protagonist, magical power, villain, women, woman, justice league ...
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 7.2
 12K
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: witchcraft, curse, coming of age, dysfunctional family, all black cast, black, implied incest, black history, african american, infidelity, redemption, women of color ...
Time: year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, indiana, usa, detroit
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 3.3
 9K
Phat Girlz (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.
Style: humorous, inspirational, feel good, semi serious, black comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: overweight woman, fashion, life philosophy, prejudice, friendship, follow your dream, looking for love, self discovery, lifestyle, introspection, african american, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, africa, nigeria
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style: realistic, inspirational, intense, stylized, talky ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, blues, jazz, biopic, african american, pop music, success, music business, singer, greed ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place: chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi
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Beyond the Lights (2014)
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, date night
Plot: music, mother daughter relationship, suicide attempt, musician, love, pop star, showbiz, police officer, domineering mother, musician's life, relationship vs career, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, mexico, united kingdom
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College Road Trip (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.
Style: humorous, entertaining, funny, not serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: road trip, father daughter relationship, family relations, brutality, college, on the road, parents and children, nothing goes right, high school, wedding, disorder, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, washington d.c., illinois, pittsburgh
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 7.2
 8K
Pariah (2011)
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: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
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A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
Style: entertaining, colorful, profound, mysterious, philosophical ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, teenager, rage, evil, journey, fear, courage, parents and children, good versus evil, siblings relations, magic, love ...
Time: future
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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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 6.1
 7K
Fast Color (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, sincere, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, countryside, daughter, family home, mother, black girl, black history, family relations, runaway, supernatural power, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: midwest
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Pokémon: Path to the Peak (2023)
Genre: Animation
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Making friends after moving to a new town can be a challenge. That's the case for Ava, a 13-year-old who's just moved to a new town and finds herself missing her old life as she begins attending an unfamiliar school.
Style: sincere, feel good, funny, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: outsider, young girl, schoolboy, mischievous children, school, girl, schoolgirl, black girl, childhood, children
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In Search of Leti (2006)
Genre: Family
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Buscando A Leti - In Search of Leti, is written and performed in Spanish, subtitled in English. Leti, a ten-year-old girl, is the protagonist of this film. The grandparents become the caretakers when her parents leave Mexico to find work in Chicago. ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, touching
Plot: family relations, culture, racism, separation, immigration, grandparents, oppression, child, black hero, bad attitude, black girl, trauma ...
Place: mexico, chicago
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 3K
Gook (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 L.A. riots, the trio must defend their store—and contemplate the meaning ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, black and white ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, korean american, black girl, brother, racism, social justice, businessman, social problems, friendship, coping, family business, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 2017
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Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 5.8
 5K
Sugar Hill (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: urban, drug dealing, black, gang, going straight, urban ghetto, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, addiction, siblings relations, drug abuse, gangster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, harlem, new york, harlem, new york city, manhattan new york city
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Made in America (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, high school, teenage girl, culture clash, single parent, comedy of errors, sperm donor, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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 6.9
 51K
He Got Game (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Style: inspirational, hood, captivating, rough, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: basketball, prison, redemption, college, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, hip hop, forgiveness, ghetto, black, released from prison, parent child relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Dancehall Queen (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. ...
Style: independent film, captivating, semi serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: reggae, jamaican, black girl, dancing, urban, african, black, blaxploitation, human spirit, contests and competitions, self discovery, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s
Place: jamaica, caribbean, africa, west indies
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 470K
Training Day (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style: neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, gang, corrupt cop, ghetto, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, dirty cop, drug ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Down in the Delta (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style: touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, african american, storytelling, drug addiction, solace, black girl, anti racism, racism ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, atlanta georgia ...
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 13K
Belly (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style: hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, african american gangster, hip hop, gangster, urban, african american, ghetto, black, drug, violence, drug dealer, gang ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 38K
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot: psychiatrist, redemption, african american, child abuse, family reunited, u.s. navy, human spirit, honest, black, justice, survival, transformation ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, san diego california, cleveland ohio
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen ...
Style: cult classic, contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, racism, black, hollywood, women, rape, african american, filmmaking, women of color, sexual abuse, interracial romance, post war ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, miami beach, new york, miami, las vegas ...
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 102K
The Hurricane (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Style: thought provoking, touching, inspirational, factual, motivational ...
Plot: prison, boxing, racism, courtroom, prison life, legal, death penalty, injustice, justice, biopic, african american, discrimination ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1940s ...
Place: new jersey, africa, toronto ontario canada, canada
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the ...
Style: futuristic, humorous, light, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: chase, on the run, space wars, gangster, cloning, danger, goofy hero, outer space, space, gunfight, robot, black ...
Time: future, 2000s, 19th century, 21st century
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 6.4
 33K
Hardball (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Style: feel good, suspense, emotional, serious, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underdog, baseball, gambling, poverty, children, gang, redemption, brutality, gangster, addiction, urban ghetto life, gambling debt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, detroit, usa, illinois
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