I have a growing film collection but I havent many black films (e.g. Best Man, Hav Plenty, that sort of thing). I have Blade and Training Day (but thery arent really black films).
Can anyone recommend any? The classic ones as well as the more obscure ones. Going back the last 30 years. Blaxploitation recommendations would be great too.
2007-02-04 04:39:48 · 38 answers · asked by Chimera's Song 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I have Ray, i forgot! But the other suggestions are great! thanks
2007-02-04 04:44:12 · update #1
Freddy, of course you can ask! A black film is a movie with an overriding black theme and/or features a predominantly black cast.
2007-02-04 04:47:35 · update #2
Posters please dont hate. This isnt a racist thing 99.9 percent of my collection features white people. Mainstream Hollywood. And I love my collection, but its unbalanced. However it nice to watch movies which have themes which are most important to black people. Its not a racist thing at all, so please calm down.
If you prefer me to use the euphemism "urban" i could have done but i am sure no-oe would have known what i was talking about.
2007-02-04 04:58:45 · update #3
The Wiz, Uptown Saturday Night, Soul Food, Shaft, Waiting to Exhale, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Friday, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Color Purple, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Roots, Mahogany... just to name a few....Good luck with your collection Sweetie! Hope these help.
2007-02-04 04:44:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Soul Food
Lady Sings the Blues
Mahogany
Brown Sugar
Carmen Jones
The Wood
Love & Basketball
Whats Love Got to do With It
Mamma Flora's Family
Glory
Malcolm X
Waiting to Exhale
Boomerang
The Five Heartbeats
Amistad
Harlem Nights
Lean on Me
The Madea Collection
2007-02-04 06:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
The Best Man
Soul Food
Color Purple
Jon Q
Antwone Fisher
Waiting To Exhale
Brooklyn
Love & Basketball
Set It Off
The Brothers
Breaking All The Rules
Johnson Family Vacation
Soul Plane
2007-02-04 04:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by ஐ♥PinkBoo - TTC #1♥ஐ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not really in to 'Black Movies' but i can recommend watching 'Big Momma's House'. Really enjoyed this film,
Also enjoyed a film called 'Glory', but not sure if it classifies as a 'Black' movie. Its about the 1st all black battalion in the union army. Denzil, Morgan Freeman, Matt Broderick, really good stuff.
Finally, got to mention Shaft (Samuel L Jackson), he's the coolest actor of the lot.
2007-02-04 08:36:22 · answer #4 · answered by Tazman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In The Heat Of The Night.
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger are electrifying. One of the most intelligent films to tackle race issues.
2007-02-05 00:34:45 · answer #5 · answered by rock_and_roll_machine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ali
Blacula
Shaft (original)
Shaft (newer version)
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle 2
Doctor Dolittle 3
Roots
Malcom X
Colour Purple
Little man
The Breed
The 51st state
Bringing down the house
Daddy day care
Are we there yet?
Money talks
Queen of the damned
Hotel Rwanda
Lucky break
The Green mile
The haunted mansion
Loaded weapon 1
Ghost ship
Idle hands
Independence day
2007-02-04 08:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by Joanne W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The color purple well worth watching . An excellent film .
The Color Purple is the ninth film directed by Steven Spielberg, and was released 1985. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. The film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems faced by African American women during the early 1900s; including poverty, racism and sex discrimination. The character Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions.
2007-02-04 04:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by scorpionbabe32 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Brother From Another Planet!
and "In The Heat of the Night" with Sidney Poitier
doesn't really have a large black cast but it's about how Mr. Tibbs gets accused of a murder while visiting family in the south. Great movie overall.
that's all the ones I can think of that haven't been mentioned already.
2007-02-04 04:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
How about one of the few all Black cast Musicals, Carmen Jones,
With Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey. Brilliant !!!
2007-02-04 05:03:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mahogany with Diana Ross and Billy D. Williams is a really, really good black movie. Also look for movies made by Spike Lee like "The Best Man" (1999), "Girl 6" (1999), Get on the bus (1996) and "School Daze" (don't remember the year).
Best of luck
2007-02-04 04:47:13 · answer #10 · answered by Drea G. 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋