Movies by Lists - Definitive List Of Black Movies From The 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s (283 [323]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| ...tick... tick... tick...Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south. | 1970 | Ralph Nelson | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Aaron Loves AngelaIn New York City, a young black boy and Puerto Rican girl fall in love despite objections from each other's families. | 1975 | Gordon Parks Jr. | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (293 votes) | 99 | 20231001 |
| AbbyA marriage counselor becomes possessed by the demon of sexuality, when her father-in-law, an exorcist, freed it while in Africa. | 1974 | William Girdler | Horror | 5.6 (943 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Across 110th StreetTwo New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war. | 1972 | Barry Shear | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Adiós AmigoA conman's crimes are blamed on a good-natured fast-drawing cowboy he meets and decides to use as decoy. | 1975 | Fred Williamson | Action, Comedy, Western | 4.2 (293 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Alabama's GhostNightclub janitor discovers a secret room, finds old magician's belongings, tries on the costumes and becomes ""Alabama, King of the Cosmos."" | 1973 | Fredric Hobbs | Horror | 4.9 (273 votes) | 96 | 20240412 |
| All Night LongThis movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus. | 1962 | Basil Dearden | Drama, Music | 7.1 (1.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Amazing GraceAn elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office by some shady politicians who have no interest in their neighborhood but are interested in getting their han | 1974 | Stan Lathan | Comedy | 5.9 (247 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Anna LucastaA young woman struggling with a sordid past finds that her biggest enemy had larger demons than she did. | 1958 | Arnold Laven | Drama | 6.8 (584 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, TheStory of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. | 1974 | John Korty | Drama, History | 7.9 (2.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes [Jive Turkey]A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him. | 1974 | Bill Brame | Crime, Thriller | 4.6 (319 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Bad, Black and BeautifulWhen Johnny Boyles is falsely accused of murdering his ex-boss, he turns to the unstoppable attorney, Eva Taylor, to help him plea his case. | 1975 | Bobby Davis | Action | 3.6 (52 votes) | 83 | 20240727 |
| Ballad in BlueRay Charles attempts to help a down-on-their-luck boozing family whose son is blind. He wants to finance the recovery of his eyesight, but the family is afraid of what might happen if something goes wrong. | 1965 | Paul Henreid | Drama, Music | 5.5 (142 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Bamboo Gods and Iron MenThe Jefferson's honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Buddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Je | 1974 | Cesar Gallardo | Action, Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Crime | 5.0 (240 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Bamboo Trapnan | 1975 | Ernesto Ventura | Action, Drama | 4.4 (15 votes) | 0 | 20240727 |
| Baron, TheBlack actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia. Complications ensue. | 1977 | Phillip Fenty | Action, Drama | 5.6 (136 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Beast Must Die, TheEight people have been invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one? | 1974 | Paul Annett | Horror, Mystery | 5.7 (3.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, TheTired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's. | 1976 | John Badham (*) | Comedy, Sport | 6.9 (1.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Black 6, The [The Black Six]A high school student, who is a person of colour, is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother seeks revenge. | 1973 | Matt Cimber | Action, Drama | 4.1 (575 votes) | 94 | 20220315 |
| Black and White in Color [Noirs et Blancs en Couleur]During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors. | 1976 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Comedy, Drama, War | 6.9 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Black Angels [Black Bikers from Hell]When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose. | 1970 | Laurence Merrick | Action, Drama | 4.3 (178 votes) | 87 | 20240501 |
| Black Belt JonesA Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many bat | 1974 | Robert Clouse | Action | 6.3 (2.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Black Bunch, TheIn Africa, four native women join and are hired to find a wealthy man's son who has disappeared, and use the opportunity to get revenge on a gang of mercenaries who have massacred the inhabitants of the womens' village. | 1972 | Henning Schellerup | Action, Drama | 4.5 (63 votes) | 82 | 20240501 |
| Black CaesarRaised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney. | 1973 | Larry Cohen | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (3.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Black Connection, TheLas Vegas drug dealer is in deep with the Italian mob over a large amount of missing cocaine. He must get creative to get out from under the mob before they take the ultimate course of action. | 1974 | Michael Finn | Action, Drama | 5.1 (110 votes) | 87 | 20240501 |
| Black Dragon vs. the Yellow Tiger [Tang shan hu wei jian sha shou]The members of an illicit organization called The Black Hand placed a lot of money on Bruce Lee. When Bruce, however, costs them a million dollar they are not happy and plot revenge. | 1974 | Che Yang, Yang Yang | Action, Drama | 5.2 (46 votes) | 90 | 20240625 |
| Black Dragon, The [Xia nan yang]Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a dock worker. When Tai-Lin discovers that the p | 1974 | Chun-Ku Lu | Action, Drama | 5.9 (83 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Black EyePrivate detective investigated a series of murders connected with a drug ring in Venice, California. | 1974 | Jack Arnold | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.6 (279 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
| Black Fist [Bogard]To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters. | 1975 | Timothy Galfas | Action, Crime | 4.8 (512 votes) | 93 | 20240501 |
| Black GirlAn aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter. | 1972 | Ossie Davis | Drama | 6.9 (453 votes) | 97 | 20220731 |
| Black Girl [La noire de...]A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France. | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene (*) | Drama | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Black Godfather, TheJ.J., a rising star in the crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood. One of the only remaining obstacles is the heroin cartel is understandably reluctant to abandon such a lucrative market. | 1974 | John Evans | Crime | 4.4 (519 votes) | 90 | 20221212 |
| Black GunnA black militant group robs a Mafia bookie joint and also steals the incriminating ledgers which, in turn, prompts retaliation from the mob. | 1972 | Robert Hartford-Davis | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (638 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Black JoyAn innocent and unsophisticated Guyanan immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life of the Brixton ghetto. | 1977 | Anthony Simmons | Comedy | 6.2 (186 votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Black Klansman, TheAfter a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman. | 1966 | Ted V. Mikels | Drama | 6.1 (500 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Black Like MeBased on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South. | 1964 | Carl Lerner | Drama | 6.6 (701 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Black Mama, White MamaA black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison and are pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the army. | 1973 | Eddie Romero | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Black OrpheusA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. | 1959 | Marcel Camus (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 7.5 (10.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Black SamsonNoble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies. | 1974 | Charles Bail | Action, Drama | 6.0 (538 votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
| Black SamuraiRobert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girl | 1976 | Al Adamson | Action, Crime | 4.7 (940 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Black ShampooA black hairstylist has sex with his female customers, and tries to keep the Mafia from taking over his business. | 1976 | Greydon Clark | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 4.7 (844 votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| Black StarletGirl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood. | 1974 | Chris Munger | Drama | 5.9 (61 votes) | 98 | 20230424 |
| BlackensteinEddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs but his jealous assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer. | 1973 | William A. Levey | Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.4 (1.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| BlaculaAn ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles. | 1972 | William Crain | Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (6.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Boarding House BluesTenants of a Harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home. | 1948 | Josh Binney | Musical | 6.8 (90 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| BoneWhen a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem. | 1972 | Larry Cohen | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Book of NumbersTwo waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket. | 1973 | Raymond St. Jacques | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (83 votes) | 81 | 20220912 |
| Boss NiggerTwo black bounty hunters, pursuing an outlaw, take over a small Western town without a sheriff. | 1974 | Jack Arnold | Comedy, Western | 6.5 (2.5K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Boy! What a GirlA couple of theatrical producers try to get backing for their musical show. | 1947 | Arthur H. Leonard | Comedy, Musical | 5.8 (140 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Bright RoadBased on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. | 1953 | Gerald Mayer | Drama, Music | 6.6 (630 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Brotherhood of DeathA group of black Vietnam vets go up against the Ku Klux Klan. | 1976 | Bill Berry | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (466 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| BrothersThinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout. | 1977 | Arthur Barron | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (197 votes) | 105 | 20240727 |
| Buck And The PreacherA wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West. | 1972 | Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent | Adventure, Drama, Western | 6.5 (1.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| BucktownAfter being hassled by The Man in a southern town, a cool operator asks some violent friends for help. After all, if you can't trust another brother, who can you trust? | 1975 | Arthur Marks | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.2 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Burlesque in HarlemA filming of a burlesque act in 1954 Harlem, complete with singers, baggy-pants comics and ""exotic"" dancers. | 1949 | William Alexander | Comedy, Music | 5.9 (39 votes) | 56 | 20240501 |
| Bus Is Coming, TheA young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge. | 1971 | Wendell Franklin | Drama | 5.6 (84 votes) | 109 | 20240727 |
| Bush MamaIt details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The government threatens to take away her welfare if she does not get an abortion. | 1979 | Haile Gerima | Drama | 7.3 (241 votes) | 97 | 20230328 |
| Cabin in the SkyA compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife. | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical | 7.1 (3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Candy Tangerine Man, TheSunset Boulevard is a lucrative place to work for the Black Baron, a pimp with a distinctive red and yellow Rolls Royce and plenty of girls on his books. He don't take no mess from his girls, his madam or his competitors and viciousl | 1975 | Matt Cimber | Adventure, Action | 6.2 (277 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Car WashA comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way. | 1976 | Michael Schultz | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Carmen JonesContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. | 1954 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (5.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Carter's Army [Black Brigade]A racist officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Germans. | 1970 | George McCowan | Drama, War | 5.1 (610 votes) | 70 | 20240501 |
| CeddoIn protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo (outsiders) kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage. | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene (*) | Drama | 6.7 (887 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Change of MindA white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull. | 1969 | Robert Stevens | Drama, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (92 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, TheJimmie Blacksmith, the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, falls victim to much racist abuse after marrying a white woman, and goes on a killing spree and finds himself on the run in the aftermath. | 1978 | Fred Schepisi (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Charley-One-EyeA black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits. | 1973 | Don Chaffey | Western | 6.1 (229 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Christmas Dream, A [Rêve de Noël]A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition. | 1973 | Ralph Senensky | Drama | 7.6 (108 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| ClaudineIn the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare. | 1974 | John Berry | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Cleopatra JonesDuring the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs. | 1973 | Jack Starrett | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.9 (2.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of GoldWhen fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find them. With the help of local detective Mi Li | 1975 | Charles Bail | Action | 5.7 (906 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| CoffyA sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim. | 1973 | Jack Hill | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.8 (11K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Come Back Charleston BlueSequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have re | 1972 | Mark Warren | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.5 (295 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Connection, TheA director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach's room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection. | 1961 | Shirley Clarke | Drama | 7.0 (852 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Cool BreezeThalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to find a new bank. | 1972 | Barry Pollack | Crime, Drama | 5.5 (353 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Cool World, TheA look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. | 1963 | Shirley Clarke | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (567 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Cooley HighIn 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. | 1975 | Michael Schultz | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (4.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Cornbread, Earl and MeA 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player. | 1975 | Joseph Manduke | Drama, Sport | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 95 | 20240501 |
| Cotton Comes to HarlemTwo Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser. | 1970 | Ossie Davis | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Cry, the Beloved CountryIn the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) | 1951 | Zoltan Korda | Drama | 7.0 (761 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Darktown StruttersSyreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow. | 1975 | William Witney | Action, Comedy, Musical | 4.8 (533 votes) | 90 | 20240501 |
| Defiant Ones, TheTwo escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. | 1958 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (15.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Deliver Us from EvilFed up with violence in their neighborhood, a janitor, a teacher and a disabled boy band together against drug dealers and other thugs. | 1975 | Horace Jackson | Drama | 5.7 (103 votes) | 96 | 20221116 |
| Der Leone Have Sept CabecasA Latin-American insurgent and a black leader join forces to free an African nation. But they'll have to face a German mercenary aided by an American agent and a Portuguese advisor, all working for a mysterious woman. | 1970 | Glauber Rocha (*) | Drama | 6.9 (259 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Detroit 9000After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure. | 1973 | Arthur Marks | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Dilemma [A World of Strangers]Around 1960, Englishman Toby Hood comes to Johannesburg in order to run a publishing company. He is open minded, and befriends people with different social ranks. The harsh realities of society force him to make a choice as to friend | 1962 | Henning Carlsen | Drama | 7.0 (91 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.A sexy, enticing dancer from Harlem makes things happen in a sleepy Caribbean island resort. | 1946 | Spencer Williams | Drama | 5.2 (230 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Disco GodfatherRudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer. The angel dust hallucinations alone are well worth the price of admission! | 1979 | J. Robert Wagoner | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (1.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| DolemiteAfter he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place. | 1975 | D'Urville Martin | Action, Comedy, Crime | 5.8 (6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Dream for Christmas, AA Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition. | 1973 | Ralph Senensky | Drama | 7.6 (108 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| DrumA mid-19th-century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society. | 1976 | Steve Carver, Burt Kennedy | Action, Drama | 5.4 (885 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| DutchmanA sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subwa | 1966 | Anthony Harvey | Drama | 7.1 (434 votes) | 55 | 20220315 |
| Edge of the CityThe growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk. | 1957 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama | 7.2 (3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Education of Sonny Carson, TheA gifted young man is caught up in gang life. | 1974 | Michael Campus | Drama | 6.9 (512 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| EmitaiAs World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray. | 1971 | Ousmane Sembene (*) | Drama | 7.1 (370 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Emma MaeA Naive Country Girl from Mississippi comes to town with an aunt to the Big City. She takes up with her family and goes out with them and meets a guy. A loser, pill-popping head nothing who is involved with the local street gang. She | 1976 | Jamaa Fanaka | Drama | 6.2 (356 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Farewell to Spring [Sekishunchô]An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white. | 1959 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.8 (15.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Fight for Your LifeA mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There are a few nasty scenes where the minister's family is being repeatedly terrorized by the thugs. In the e | 1977 | Robert A. Endelson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Final Comedown, TheBlack revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs. | 1972 | Oscar Williams | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (368 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, TheThe Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania basketball team is hopeless. Could they become winners with help from an astrologer and some new astrologically-compatible players? | 1979 | Gilbert Moses | Comedy, Sport | 5.3 (1.2K votes) | 102 | 20240501 |
| Five on the Black Hand SideIn contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle- | 1973 | Oscar Williams | Comedy | 6.4 (426 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| For Love of IvyUpon learning their maid will be leaving to earn an education, the son of the family decides to set her up with a man. | 1968 | Daniel Mann | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (756 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Force Four [Black Force]When a priceless African statue is stolen and its courier is murdered, the Force Four are called in to deal out some old fashioned retributive action. | 1975 | Michael Fink | Action, Drama | 4.4 (103 votes) | 82 | 20240501 |
| Fox StyleA wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs. | 1973 | Clyde Houston | Drama | 5.6 (69 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Foxy BrownA voluptuous black vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. | 1974 | Jack Hill | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.5 (10.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Friday FosterAt Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy. | 1975 | Arthur Marks | Action | 6.0 (2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Gang War [Crime Street]Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket. | 1940 | Leo C. Popkin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.0 (141 votes) | 63 | 20240501 |
| Ganga ZumbaThe life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves. | 1963 | Carlos Diegues | Drama, History | 6.6 (126 votes) | 100 | 20231013 |
| Ganja and HessAfter being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood. | 1973 | Bill Gunn, Lawrence Jordan | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.2 (2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Georgia, GeorgiaGeorgia, an African-American singer, travels to the Swedish city of Stockholm for a performance. There, she meets an American deserter and soon they have fallen in love. But Georgia's friend and assistant, Alberta, warns her to stick | 1972 | Stig Björkman | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (103 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Go Down, Death!The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes. | 1945 | Spencer Williams | Drama | 4.9 (170 votes) | 56 | 20231213 |
| Gone Are the Days! [Purlie Victorious; The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N.]An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin to secure the family inheritance. Aiding t... | 1963 | Nicholas Webster | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (207 votes) | 99 | 20231101 |
| Goodbye Uncle Tom [Addio zio Tom]Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade. | 1971 | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Drama | 6.6 (1.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Gordon's WarFour Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem. | 1973 | Ossie Davis | Adventure, Crime | 6.5 (393 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Greased LightningThe true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race. | 1977 | Michael Schultz | Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport | 6.3 (1.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Great White Hope, TheA black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down. | 1970 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.9 (2.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Halls of AngerAn all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help. | 1970 | Paul Bogart | Drama | 5.9 (436 votes) | 96 | 20240501 |
| HangupA rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer. | 1974 | Henry Hathaway | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (82 votes) | 94 | 20240501 |
| Harder They Come, TheWishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers. | 1972 | Perry Henzell | Crime, Drama, Music | 6.9 (6.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Harlem Globetrotters, TheAbe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters." Saperstein wants Billy to finish school fir | 1951 | Phil Brown, Will Jason | Drama, Sport | 6.1 (232 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Harvest - 3,000 Years [Mirt Sost Shi Amit]In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord and a protester who feels he is mistreating his laborers. While the viewer gets to closely examine the culture, conversations, and lives of the locals who surro... | 1975 | Haile Gerima | Drama | 7.6 (229 votes) | 150 | 20240727 |
| Hell Up In HarlemA gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia. | 1973 | Larry Cohen | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, AA troubled boy (Larry B. Scott) becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother (Cicely Tyson) and foster father (Paul Winfield) help him fight it. | 1977 | Ralph Nelson | Drama | 6.8 (340 votes) | 107 | 20230328 |
| Hi-De-HoCab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers. | 1947 | Josh Binney | Musical | 5.8 (281 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Hit ManA lawyer whose brother was murdered winds up getting involved with gangsters and the world of porno movies. | 1972 | George Armitage | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (884 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Hit!A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave f | 1973 | Sidney J. Furie | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (656 votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Hitter, TheAn ex-professional boxer (O'Neal) tries to make a new start when teaming up with a fast talking but ageing hoodlum (Ceaser) and an ex-call girl (Frazier) but soon get more than they bargained for when crossing an adversary from their | 1978 | Christopher Leitch | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (97 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Hot PotatoMartial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand. | 1976 | Oscar Williams | Action, Comedy, Drama | 4.0 (384 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| House on Skull Mountain, TheMurders occur at the southern estate of a voodoo priestess when four relatives gather to hear her will. | 1974 | Ron Honthaner | Horror, Mystery | 4.7 (705 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Human Tornado, TheDolemite flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung Fu prostitutes battle a local gangster. | 1976 | Cliff Roquemore | Action, Comedy, Drama | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| I Escaped from Devil's IslandIn 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana. | 1973 | William Witney | Action, Adventure | 5.3 (448 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| I Passed for WhiteA young girl meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white. | 1960 | Fred M. Wilcox (*) | Drama | 6.2 (320 votes) | 93 | 20240501 |
| If He Hollers Let Him GoAn escaped convict goes to a small town to clear his name. He becomes part of a murder plot in order to pull his plan off. | 1968 | Charles Martin | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (109 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Imitation of LifeAn aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white. | 1959 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.8 (15.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| In The Heat of The NightA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case. | 1967 | Norman Jewison (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (73.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Intruder, The [Shame]A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control. | 1962 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama | 7.6 (3.3K votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
| It's Good to Be AliveThe story of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short when he lost the use of his legs in an auto accident in January of 1958. | 1974 | Michael Landon | Biography, Drama, Sport | 6.6 (141 votes) | 100 | 20240727 |
| J.D.s RevengeMurdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge. | 1976 | Arthur Marks | Action, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Jackie Robinson Story, TheBiography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. Restored in original Black and White. | 1950 | Alfred E. Green | Biography, Drama, Sport | 6.4 (1.5K votes) | 77 | 20240727 |
| Journey of the Hyena [Touki Bouki]Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind. | 1973 | Djibril Diop Mambéty (*) | Drama | 7.0 (3.9K votes) | 85 | 20231001 |
| Juke JointTwo insolvent con men get involved in a small town beauty contest. | 1947 | Spencer Williams | Comedy, Drama | 5.7 (92 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Junction 88Small town lovers are aided by a visiting showman. | 1947 | George P. Quigley | Comedy, Music | 6.0 (38 votes) | 60 | 20240727 |
| Killer DillerAn all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen. | 1948 | Josh Binney | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical | 5.6 (132 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Killer of SheepSet in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support. | 1978 | Charles Burnett (*) | Drama | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| KlansmanA local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman. | 1974 | Terence Young | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (1.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Klansman, TheA local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman. | 1974 | Terence Young | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (1.7K votes) | 112 | 20231001 |
| Lady CocoaFoxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend. | 1975 | Matt Cimber | Crime, Drama | 4.8 (313 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Lady Luck [Lucky Ghost]Two down-on-their luck friends suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. | 1942 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Thriller | 6.1 (179 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Lady Sings The BluesThe story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday. | 1972 | Sidney J. Furie | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.1 (4.3K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Landlord, TheHal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love in a Brooklyn ghetto. | 1970 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (2.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| LeadbellyBiography of the legendary folksinger, Huddie Ledbetter, master of the 12-string guitar and long-time convict on Texas and Louisiana chain gangs. | 1976 | Gordon Parks (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.2 (748 votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Learning Tree, TheA bittersweet and idyllic story about a year in the life of a 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, immorality. | 1969 | Gordon Parks (*) | Drama | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Let's Do It AgainTwo Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention. | 1975 | Sidney Poitier | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Lion Has Seven Heads, The [Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças]A Latin-American insurgent and a black leader join forces to free an African nation. But they'll have to face a German mercenary aided by an American agent and a Portuguese advisor, all working for a mysterious woman. | 1970 | Glauber Rocha (*) | Drama | 6.9 (259 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Look-Out SisterA famous bandleader, suffering from overwork and exhaustion, goes to a sanitarium for a rest. While there he dreams of being out west at a dude ranch, where he finds himself involved in the beautiful owner's struggle to keep her r... | 1947 | Bud Pollard | Music, Western | 6.0 (62 votes) | 63 | 20240501 |
| Lost Man, TheA gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle". | 1969 | Robert Alan Aurthur | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (190 votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Louis Armstrong - Chicago StyleThe story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame. | 1976 | Lee Philips | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (56 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Mack, TheGoldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time. | 1973 | Michael Campus | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (2.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| MahoganyTracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her... | 1975 | Berry Gordy, Tony Richardson, Jack Wormser | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (2.1K votes) | 109 | 20230126 |
| MalualaDuring the late 1800s in Cuba, runaway African slaves hide in mountainous settlements after overpowering their Spanish masters. Discord soon follows as it turns out there are traitors in their midst, secretly working for the Spanish. | 1979 | Sergio Giral | Biography, Drama, History | 6.2 (35 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Man and BoyAfter the Civil War, a black ex-union soldier, his wife, and his son settle in Arizona Territory to homestead and build their lives. At first, Caleb Revers race doesn't seem to matter, but then things change. | 1971 | E.W. Swackhamer | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western | 5.5 (205 votes) | 98 | 20240501 |
| Man Called Adam, AA famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life. | 1966 | Leo Penn | Drama, Music | 6.6 (586 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Man FridayDuring the 17th century, shipwrecked English seaman Robinson Crusoe, after years of solitude, spots natives on his deserted Pacific island and befriends one who he names Friday. | 1975 | Jack Gold | Adventure, Drama | 6.3 (959 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Man, TheAn African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way. | 1972 | Joseph Sargent | Drama | 7.0 (357 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| MandabiA money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more mod | 1968 | Ousmane Sembene (*) | Drama | 7.3 (920 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| MandingoAn 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter. | 1975 | Richard Fleischer | Drama, History, Romance | 6.3 (3.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Marching On! [Where's My Man To-nite]During World War II, a young African American is forced to continue his family's tradition of military service when he is drafted into United States Army. | 1943 | Spencer Williams | Drama, History, War | 4.8 (39 votes) | 83 | 20240727 |
| Mark Of The Hawk, TheObam finds himself caught in the middle of hostility between British colonists and African villagers who want to reclaim their land. He sets out to save his country before tensions get out of control. | 1957 | Michael Audley | Drama | 5.2 (251 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| McMasters, TheWhen a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife. | 1970 | Alf Kjellin | Action, Drama, Western | 6.0 (298 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Mean MotherTwo US soldiers desert from the Vietnam war and go their separate ways. Both of them reach Europe and become involved in the criminal underworld, and eventually reunite in Rome with plans to escape to Canada. | 1973 | Al Adamson, León Klimovsky | Action, Drama | 2.9 (421 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| MelindaA slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out she was killed by the local mob, which is try | 1972 | Hugh A. Robertson | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (238 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Miracle in HarlemA crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime. | 1948 | Jack Kemp | Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (99 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Mister DeathmanGeoffrey Graves is a suave secret agent who's called out of retirement and sent to South Africa to recover a kidnapped aerospace engineer before he can reveal the secrets of the government's experimental ""solar shuttle"". He faces ... | 1983 | Michael D. Moore | Action | 5.3 (98 votes) | 93 | 20240501 |
| Monkey Hu$tle, TheA new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party. | 1976 | Arthur Marks | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.1 (431 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| Mr. MeanA former Cosa Nostra henchman seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. | 1977 | Fred Williamson | Action, Drama | 5.3 (75 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Murder on Lenox AvenueDramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge. | 1941 | Arthur Dreifuss | Drama | 5.3 (69 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Murder with MusicThe beautiful Nellie Hill has many admirers but when one of them gets killed all the others are suspected. All this in among some great singing and dancing, some great bands and songs. This is a showcase for Black Entertainment of th | 1941 | George P. Quigley | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 4.0 (88 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Mystery in SwingIn and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as Pri | 1940 | Arthur Dreifuss | Action, Adventure, Music, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (103 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Native SonIn 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up. | 1951 | Pierre Chenal | Drama | 6.1 (357 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| New FacesRonny Graham is in trouble on opening night because a big check is due before the curtain can go up. A wealthy Texan says he will put up the money since his daughter is in the show - but he wants to see the show first. | 1954 | Harry Horner, John Beal | Comedy, Musical | 5.3 (193 votes) | 99 | 20240501 |
| New OrleansA gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others. | 1947 | Arthur Lubin | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.7 (553 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| No Way BackCrowder is a man who will do anything, if the price is right. He is a private detective with a past in the police force. A woman comes to his office one day and asks if he will find her husband. He takes the mission, but soon he g... | 1976 | Fred Williamson | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.1 (110 votes) | 103 | 20240501 |
| Norman... Is That YouA black man is distraught when he discovers his son is gay and is determined to set him right. | 1976 | George Schlatter | Comedy | 5.8 (403 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Nothing But a ManA black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America. | 1964 | Michael Roemer | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (1.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Of Gods and the Undead [Os deuses E Os Mortos]In the 1930's, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who had already been shot 7 times, gets involved in the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" S | 1970 | Ruy Guerra | Drama | 6.9 (125 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Oh, Sun [Soleil O]A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment. | 1967 | Med Hondo | Drama | 7.2 (369 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| One in a Million - The Ron LeFlore StoryTrue story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball. | 1978 | William A. Graham | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Sport | 6.7 (226 votes) | 100 | 20240727 |
| One Potato, Two PotatoStudy of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the | 1964 | Larry Peerce | Drama | 7.2 (784 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| One Way or Another [De cierta manera]In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba. | 1977 | Sara Gómez | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (385 votes) | 78 | 20230424 |
| Organization, TheIn San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen. | 1971 | Don Medford | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (1.9K votes) | 106 | 20220822 |
| Paris BluesDuring the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls. | 1961 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.8 (3.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Patch of Blue, A.A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world. | 1965 | Guy Green | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (8.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| PenitentiaryA hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early par | 1979 | Jamaa Fanaka | Crime, Drama, Sport | 5.7 (1.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Piece of the Action, AA retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves to "volunteer" helping juvenile delinquents change paths. | 1977 | Sidney Poitier | Crime, Comedy | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 135 | 20220414 |
| PinkyA light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race. | 1949 | Elia Kazan, John Ford | Drama | 7.2 (3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Place Called Today, ARacial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town. | 1972 | Don Schain | Drama | 4.4 (70 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Porgy and BessA woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to. | 1959 | Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Pressure PointA black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition. | 1962 | Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer | Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Proud Valley, TheIn a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens. | 1940 | Pen Tennyson | Drama, Music | 6.6 (509 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Putney SwopeThe board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swop | 1969 | Robert Downey Sr. | Comedy | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Raisin in the Sun, AA substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family. | 1961 | Daniel Petrie | Drama | 8.0 (8.2K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Red, White, and Black, TheA recruit joins an all-black cavalry regiment led by a white man in the post-Civil War West. | 1970 | John 'Bud' Cardos | Action, Romance, Western | 5.2 (73 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Reet Petite and GoneOld-time musical star Schyler Jarvis, now wealthy, is dying; his last act is a visionary plan for the future happiness of his son, swing bandleader Louis Jarvis, and Honey Carter, daughter of his long-lost love. But crooked lawyer Ta | 1947 | William Forest Crouch | Musical | 5.9 (115 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Rhythm and Blues RevueExtravaganza with lots of music legends from the 50s. | 1955 | Joseph Kohn | Documentary, Music | 7.1 (121 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Rio 100 Degrees F. [Rio 40 Graus]A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along th | 1955 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Drama | 7.5 (688 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Rio, 40 Degrees [Rio, 40 Graus]A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along... | 1955 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Drama | 7.5 (814 votes) | 100 | 20231013 |
| River Niger, TheAn 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 street | 1976 | Krishna Shah | Drama | 6.1 (261 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| RockersHorsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the peopl | 1978 | Ted Bafaloukos | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.6 (1.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryA three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression. | 1978 | Jack Smight | Drama | 5.6 (342 votes) | 110 | 20240727 |
| RootsA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation. | 1977 | Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.4 (17.1K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| SambizangaDomingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wif | 1972 | Sarah Maldoror | Drama | 7.1 (244 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Savage SistersThree women of three races join the fundraising part of an island revolution. | 1974 | Eddie Romero | Action, Drama | 4.9 (338 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Savage!Action packed story of how Jim Haygood (James Glehart) young, black and brilliant becomes the legendary leader of a rebel army. In a daring ambush on the beach Moncada, elusive leader of the rebel army, is captured by Jim Haygood ... | 1973 | Cirio H. Santiago | Action, Drama | 5.1 (176 votes) | 81 | 20240727 |
| Scavenger HuntTo inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought. | 1979 | Michael Schultz | Comedy | 5.9 (2.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Scott JoplinDetails the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time. | 1977 | Jeremy Kagan | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.5 (408 votes) | 96 | 20240727 |
| Scream, Blacula, ScreamThe vampire Mamuwalde (Blacula) is stirred by African voodoo, and is forced to kill again. | 1973 | Bob Kelljan | Fantasy, Horror | 5.7 (2.6K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sepia CinderellaA struggling songwriter (Billy Daniels) abandons his girlfriend (Sheila Guyse) for a flashy woman (Tondeleyo) after landing a hit. | 1947 | Arthur H. Leonard | Comedy, Musical | 5.7 (115 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Sergeant RutledgeRespected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer. | 1960 | John Ford (*) | Crime, Western | 7.4 (4.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| ShadowsCassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City. | 1958 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (11.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| ShaftCool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. | 1971 | Gordon Parks (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (18.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Shaft in AfricaPrivate investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work. | 1973 | John Guillermin | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.9 (2.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Sheba BabyA Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters. | 1975 | William Girdler | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (1.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Shoot It Black, Shoot It BlueA young black student accidentally films a crooked cop committing a murder. He then follows the cop around, filming more of his illegal activities. | 1974 | Dennis McGuire | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (61 votes) | 93 | 20240727 |
| Short EyesA child molester sent to prison finds that criminals exact harsher justice than society. | 1977 | Robert M. Young | Drama | 7.1 (1.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Sign of Aquarius [Ghetto Freaks]A group of hippies who live together in a communal apartment are arrested during a peace demonstration. Upon their release, they return home to discuss plans for another demonstration. That evening in a nightclub, the hippies watc... | 1970 | Robert J. Emery | Drama, Musical | 5.1 (80 votes) | 95 | 20230715 |
| Six Thousand Dollar Nigger, TheSuper Soul Brother was originally going to be the "Black Superman". However, it ended up an action comedy. Wildman Steve plays a bum who agrees to allow an experimental drug to be administered to him. What he doesn't realize is that | 1978 | Rene Martinez Jr. | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 4.4 (213 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Slams, TheEverybody is after the money stolen by Hook before he ended up in prison, including the villainous head guard Capt. Stambell. | 1973 | Jonathan Kaplan | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.9 (323 votes) | 91 | 20240501 |
| SlaughterSlaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters. | 1972 | Jack Starrett | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Slaughter's Big Rip-OffVigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout. | 1973 | Gordon Douglas | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (540 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Son of IngagiA newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father. | 1940 | Richard C. Kahn | Horror | 4.3 (334 votes) | 70 | 20240727 |
| Soul Brothers Of Kung FuTwo illegal immigrants meet a young kid and the three become best friends until one of them joins the Triads. Now the remaining two must fight the Triads in a battle to the death. | 1977 | Shan Hua | Action, Drama | 6.4 (196 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Souls of SinUnsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend Bob and a new roommate, friendly blues singer 'Alabama' Lee. But, tired of being broke, Dollar Bill gets more steady employment. | 1949 | Powell Lindsay | Drama | 6.5 (79 votes) | 64 | 20240116 |
| SounderThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. | 1972 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Family | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Space Is the PlaceSun Ra--space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With Black Power on the rise, Ra disembarks an | 1974 | John Coney | Sci-Fi, Music | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| SparkleThree sisters form a singing group in 1950s Harlem, but success threatens to ruin their relationship forever. | 1976 | Sam O'Steen | Drama, Music | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Speeding Up TimeA poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother. | 1971 | John Evans | Action, Drama | 4.6 (22 votes) | 90 | 20240501 |
| Split, TheThieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money. | 1968 | Gordon Flemyng | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (1.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Spook Who Sat by the Door, TheA black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution. | 1973 | Ivan Dixon | Action, Drama, Crime | 7.2 (1.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| St. Louis BluesThe story of W. C. Handy, the undisputed father of the blues. | 1958 | Allen Reisner | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.1 (667 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Story of a Three-Day Pass, The [La permission]A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France. | 1967 | Melvin Van Peebles (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (388 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Sugar HillWhen her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD! She entreats voodoo queen Mama Maitresse to call on Baron Samedi, Lord of the Dead, for help with a gruesome revenge. In exchange for Sugar's so | 1974 | Paul Maslansky | Action, Crime, Horror | 5.8 (2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Super Fly T.N.T.A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution. | 1973 | Ron O'Neal | Action, Crime, Drama | 4.4 (409 votes) | 87 | 20240501 |
| Super SpookAfter a Harlem numbers lady is robbed in Central Park, her daughter hires an out of touch sleuth to catch the robber before the mob and a crooked cop come down on her mother. | 1974 | Tony Major | Comedy, Crime | 5.8 (36 votes) | 103 | 20240501 |
| SuperflyThe daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire. | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. | Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller | 6.4 (7.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Love, BitterA loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. | 1967 | Herbert Danska | Drama | 6.4 (117 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss SongAfter saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels. | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (5.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Take a Giant StepA black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out an | 1959 | Philip Leacock | Drama | 6.9 (437 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Take, TheCrime fighter Terry Sneed arrives in New Mexico to help out a local police chief - but he's already taking money from the underworld. | 1974 | Robert Hartford-Davis | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.5 (315 votes) | 92 | 20240501 |
| Tall Tan and TerrificProfessional gambler The Duke (Dots Johnson) attempts to cheat Handsome Harry Hansom (Monte Hawley), who owns a successful Harlem nightclub, out of his club and his contract with his lead singer and girlfriend Tall, Tan, and Terrific | 1946 | Bud Pollard | Short, Musical | 5.0 (25 votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
| Terminal IslandAfter the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one lead by a psychopath, and another group determined to bring him | 1973 | Stephanie Rothman | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (1.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Thank God It's FridayA Friday in the life of the disco club The Zoo, where the staff and clients meet and dance their lives away. | 1978 | Robert Klane | Comedy, Music | 5.4 (2.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| That Man BoltTo take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, via Los Angeles, is it necessary to call on that man - Bolt? With the number of dangerous spies and gangsters who are after that briefcase, maybe Jefferson Bolt is not enough. | 1973 | Henry Levin, David Lowell Rich | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (331 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs. | 1970 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (3.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Thing with Two Heads, TheDoctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate. | 1972 | Lee Frost | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 4.5 (2.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| This Rebel BreedDamon's in black-face as blacks take on whites who take on Hispanics in this very entertaining teenage gang war extravaganza. Teenage punks slice and dice each other, turn innocent young girls into sleazy tramps, threaten innocent ci | 1960 | Richard L. Bare, William Rowland | Drama | 5.9 (158 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Thomasine & BushrodThe exploits of 1910s bounty hunter Thomasine and bandit Bushrod who, after rekindling their old romance, take to robbing banks to survive, stealing from rich whites and sharing their loot with the poor on the harsh frontier. | 1974 | Gordon Parks Jr. | Action, Crime, Romance, Western | 5.9 (586 votes) | 95 | 20231109 |
| Three the Hard WayBlaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people. | 1974 | Gordon Parks Jr. | Action, Thriller | 6.3 (1.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Tick, Tick, Tick [...tick... tick... tick...]Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south. | 1970 | Ralph Nelson | Drama, Action | 6.7 (1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| TNT JacksonA young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong. | 1974 | Cirio H. Santiago | Action | 4.7 (1.2K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| To All My Friends on ShoreAn airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia. | 1972 | Gilbert Cates | Drama | 6.2 (185 votes) | 70 | 20240727 |
| Together BrothersA group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer. | 1974 | William A. Graham | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (243 votes) | 94 | 20240501 |
| TomA white ex-GI goes to a Black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a Black soldier who died in Vietnam, but when he gets there he encounter hostility and trouble from all sides. | 1973 | Greydon Clark | Drama | 4.9 (243 votes) | 82 | 20240727 |
| Top of the HeapA Washington D.C. cop is proud to be one of the few African-Americans on the force. He is not well loved by his peers, or by people. Trouble erupts when he is overlooked for a promotion. | 1972 | Christopher St. John | Drama | 6.5 (211 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| ToughGossett continually rebels against the white establishment. The boy finds he can expect no back-up of his attitude at home, where his parents wallow in self-indulgence, so he feels that a show of force is his only option. | 1974 | Horace Jackson | Drama | 5.9 (86 votes) | 87 | 20240727 |
| Tough GuysAn ex-convict priest and a framed former policeman hunt a machine-gun killer behind a bank robbery. | 1974 | Duccio Tessari | Action, Crime | 5.7 (345 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Trial of the Moke, TheThe Trial of the Moke"" is about the first black man to graduates from West Point. Flipper is framed for embezzlement by his fellow cadets to drive him away. But Flipper wasn't going anywhere until he cleared his name. | 1978 | Stan Lathan | Drama | 6.6 (83 votes) | 90 | 20240727 |
| Trick BabyTwo Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail. | 1972 | Larry Yust | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (531 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Trouble ManA neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out of the way. | 1972 | Ivan Dixon | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Truck TurnerBlaxploitation film about a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in Los Angeles. | 1974 | Jonathan Kaplan | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 (2.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| UptightIn this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer." | 1968 | Jules Dassin | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (758 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Uptown Saturday NightAt Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it. | 1974 | Sidney Poitier | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.7 (2.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| WalkaboutTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe. | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.6 (24.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Watermelon ManAn extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand! | 1970 | Melvin Van Peebles (*) | Comedy | 6.6 (2.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Watts Monster, The [Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde]When a scientist develops a formula to regenerate dying liver cells, it accidentally turns him into an albino vampire with a taste for prostitutes. | 1976 | William Crain | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (481 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Which Way Is UpOrange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sexually obsessed father, Rufus, and spouse, Annie Mae. | 1977 | Michael Schultz | Comedy | 6.3 (1.8K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Willie DynamiteA social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways. | 1974 | Gilbert Moses | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| WilmaThe story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics. | 1977 | Bud Greenspan | Biography, Drama, Sport | 6.1 (303 votes) | 100 | 20240303 |
| Wiz, TheAn adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience. | 1978 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 5.5 (14.9K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Work [Baara]A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see | 1978 | Souleymane Cissé | Drama | 6.6 (209 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| World, The Flesh And The Devil, TheA miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors. | 1959 | Ranald MacDougall | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (2.9K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| XalaA corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice. | 1975 | Ousmane Sembene (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (1.8K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| YoungbloodA gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth. | 1978 | Noel Nosseck | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (287 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Zebra Force, TheA group of Vietnam vets, tired of the depredation of the Mafia on their neighborhood, decide to take on the mob on their own terms--but by using a very different twist. | 1976 | Joe Tornatore | Action, Crime | 4.6 (270 votes) | 100 | 20240501 |
| Zebra Killer, TheA police officer becomes greatly obsessed with a sadistic serial killer/rapist called ""The Zebra Killer"" after his girlfriend is kidnapped, and discovers a string of many brutal murders along the way while tracking him down. | 1974 | William Girdler | Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (162 votes) | 92 | 20220806 |
| Borom sarret | 1963 | Ousmane Sembene | Short, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Moi, un noir | 1958 | Jean Rouch | Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Black Chariot | 1971 | Robert Goodwin | Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids | 1972 | nan | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Horse | 1973 | Charles Burnett | Short, Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Child of Resistance | 1973 | Haile Gerima | Short, Drama | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ceremonies in Dark Old Men | 1975 | Michael Schultz, Kirk Browning | Drama | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Diary of an African Nun | 1977 | Julie Dash | Short, Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Minstrel Man | 1977 | William A. Graham | Drama, Music | 8.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Freeman | 1977 | Lloyd Richards | Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| King | 1978 | nan | Biography, Drama, History | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Woman Called Moses | 1978 | nan | Biography, Drama | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Backstairs at the White House | 1979 | nan | Drama, History | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 1979 | Fielder Cook | Biography, Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Together for Days | 1972 | Michael Schultz | Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Street Sisters | 1974 | Arthur Roberson | Drama | 3.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Countdown at Kusini | 1976 | Ossie Davis | Action, Drama | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Brother on the Run | 1973 | Edward J. Lakso, Herbert L. Strock | Action, Drama | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Leslie Uggams Show | 1969 | nan | Comedy, Music | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Portrait of Jason | 1967 | Shirley Clarke | Documentary, Biography | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Things Fall Apart | 1971 | Hans Jürgen Pohland | Drama | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sunday Sinners | 1940 | Arthur Dreifuss | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Girl in Room 20 | 1946 | Spencer Williams | Drama | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Negro Soldier | 1944 | Stuart Heisler | Documentary, Short, Drama, War | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Big Timers | 1945 | Bud Pollard | Short, Comedy, Musical | 3.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Beale Street Mama | 1946 | Spencer Williams | Comedy, Music | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Quiet One | 1948 | Sidney Meyers | Documentary, Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Pennywhistle Blues | 1951 | Donald Swanson | Comedy, Drama, Music | 8.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Negro Colleges in War Time | 1943 | nan | Documentary, Short | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Henry Browne, Farmer | 1942 | Roger Barlow | Documentary, Short | 4.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales | 1969 | Penelope Spheeris | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Limit | 1972 | Yaphet Kotto | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Catch the Black Sunshine | 1974 | Chris Robinson | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western | 4.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Miss Melody Jones | 1973 | Bill Brame | Drama | 4.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Dynamite Brothers | 1974 | Al Adamson | Action, Drama | 3.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Black Lolita | 1974 | Stephen Gibson | Action, Drama | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Long Night | 1976 | Woodie King Jr. | Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Way of the Black Dragon | 1978 | Chih Chen | Action, Adventure | 5.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |