Underrated Black Films
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- DirectorJordan Walker-PearlmanStarsGabrielle UnionBilly Dee WilliamsZoe SaldanaA painter living in exile returns home where his family endured generations of racial violence. There he begins to fantasize the people around him as a series of portraits in order to bury the pain and find something beautiful to feel.
- DirectorMaya AngelouStarsAlfre WoodardAl Freeman Jr.Mary AliceIn a desperate attempt to change her life, Loretta -- a troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood -- is sent to spend a summer at her family's ancestral home in rural Mississippi.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsRobert Ri'chardPeter GallagherGloria ReubenSet in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
- DirectorDebbie AllenStarsLynn WhitfieldVanessa WilliamsJasmine GuyFour young black women are trying to achieve their dreams of success in the 1930s Harlem.
- DirectorChristopher Scott CherotStarsChristopher Scott CherotChenoa MaxwellHill HarperLee Plenty is a flailing, wannabe writer, homeless and apartment-sitting for his friend, the wealthy Havilland Savage, while she is off visiting family. So Lee jumps at the chance to see Havilland, whom he has secretly loved for years.
- DirectorMatty RichStarsLarenz TateJoe MortonSuzzanne DouglasA shy, troubled young man who set his own house on fire and has an imaginary friend, is sent to a vineyard where he finds himself in the middle of his political-arguing, party-loving family and his love torn between two girls.
- DirectorChristopher Scott CherotStarsRichard T. JonesBlair UnderwoodChenoa Maxwell"G" is a Gatsbyesque love story set against Hip-Hop's invasion of the Hamptons.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsAlfre WoodardLoretta DevineCCH PounderA woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
- DirectorPreston A. Whitmore IIStarsBoris KodjoeMichael Kenneth WilliamsSticky FingazA father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
- DirectorNeema BarnetteStarsLisaRaye McCoyN'Bushe WrightYasiin BeyFrances is in the pen for killing her abusive husband. The abused the prisoners rise up against the "new plantation" that harvest human labor for profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for justice.
- StarsJohn BeasleyMary AliceUlysses ZakeryA weekend in the life of the Arnett family. The events of a forty eight hour period have a rainbow of incidents. From a preacher to a drug dealer; from an innocent young school girl to a reformed drug addict gone bad. The same scenario that millions of American families encounter each day in suburbia; both black and white and brown and yellow. There are no racial boundaries to the ups and downs of the real American life.
- DirectorKathleen CollinsStarsSeret ScottBill GunnDuane JonesSara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.
- DirectorKevin HooksRolando HudsonStarsTommy DavidsonJoseph C. PhillipsAnne-Marie JohnsonSharp social satire in which the uneven friendship between an ambitious Black businessman and his streetwise pal is thrown into further confusion when the professional falls in love with a mind-numbingly gorgeous waitress.
- DirectorRobert TownsendStarsRobert TownsendMarla GibbsEddie GriffinA high school teacher from a troubled inner city Washington D.C. neighborhood becomes a super-powered hero and takes on the gang that has been terrorizing his streets.
- DirectorRobert TownsendStarsRobert TownsendCraigus R. JohnsonHelen MartinAn actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsWhoopi GoldbergLeleti KhumaloMiriam MakebaSouth African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
- DirectorJohnny E. JensenStarsCarl LumblyDulé HillVictoria DillardIn 1940s New Jersey, a poor, working man aspires to give his six daughters opportunities that he never had.
- DirectorDebbie AllenStarsKeshia Knight PulliamPhylicia RashadDorian HarewoodAn orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
- DirectorDebbie AllenStarsKeshia Knight PulliamPhylicia RashadDorian HarewoodBroadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
- DirectorDoug McHenryStarsLL Cool JJada Pinkett SmithVivica A. FoxWhen a despicable family member expires at last, his relatives gather to comfort one another--and to settle old scores.
- DirectorKasi LemmonsStarsSamuel L. JacksonJurnee SmollettMeagan GoodWhat did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
- DirectorRobert TownsendStarsVing RhamesAlfre WoodardJesika ReynoldsA drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter.
- DirectorKrishna ShahStarsCicely TysonJames Earl JonesLouis Gossett Jr.An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsGlynn TurmanLawrence Hilton-JacobsGarrett MorrisIn 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsBrandon Quintin AdamsEverett McGillWendy RobieTwo adults and a juvenile break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children. There, they must fight for their lives.