black people

Far from Heaven | France| United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (42615 votes)
Budget
13,500,000.00$
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

Freedom Writers | Germany| United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (64100 votes)
Budget
21,000,000.00$
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Genre
IMDB
5.4 (11851 votes)
Budget
6,000,000.00$
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.

Black Dynamite | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.4 (44263 votes)
Budget
2,900,000.00$
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House...

A Bronx Tale | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.8 (121577 votes)
Budget
22,000,000.00$
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

The Color Purple | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.8 (74056 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
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 Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.

Akeelah and the Bee | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (17689 votes)
Budget
8,000,000.00$
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of -- but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee's demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.

Boyz n the Hood | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.7 (117447 votes)
Budget
6,500,000.00$
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.

Genre
IMDB
6.2 (28476 votes)
Budget
30,000,000.00$
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Do the Right Thing | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.9 (79391 votes)
Budget
6,500,000.00$
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Genre
IMDB
7.1 (22353 votes)
Budget
5,000,000.00$
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

Menace II Society | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (48720 votes)
Budget
3,500,000.00$
Sobering and incisive, this cautionary drama centers on a street tough 18-year-old facing a moral quandary while trying to turn his life around.

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