12 Years a Slave (2013), Get Out (2017), Moonlight (2016), The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), The Long Walk Home (1990), Woodlawn (2015), Bright Victory (1951), Porgy and Bess (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best African-american movies.
Storyline: The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their magazine with the headline "Mr. Untouchable". Soon after, it all came crumbling down, and facing a life sentence without parole, Barnes started naming names. With the first hand testimony from "the black Godfather" himself, this documentary tells an epic story of business, excess, greed and revenge.—Magnolia Films
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, gangster, african-american, kingpin, fbi agent, poor person, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miami - 1998. Poverty, broken families, and a prejudiced system push underprivileged youth to the fringes of society. But for a magnetic group of teens, there's a reprieve. A game where it's not about where you come from, but how you play. That equalizer is chess. Mr. "T" Martinez, a chess militant and passionate coach, leads them to a completely foreign field of battle.
Plot Keywords: teacher, student, friend, drug dealer, parent, african-american, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Plot Keywords: couple, law student, president, adviser, first lady, man, woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all under the dangerous eye of the Luftwaffe veteran Col. Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war, McNamara is silently planning, waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted, McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant, enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men, McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission, ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country.
Plot Keywords: law student, soldier, prisoner, wrongly accused, african-american, german, positive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Plot Keywords: woman, beauty pageant contestant, feminist, african-american, comedian, amusing, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Plot Keywords: army officer, african-american, baseball player, mother, attorney, joe louis, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
Plot Keywords: bystander, police officer, baseball player, murder victim, father, african-american, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky - even as they battle discrimination on the ground. It's a tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
Plot Keywords: cadet, fighter pilot, commanding officer, african-american, fiery, heartwarming, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Baptist preacher from Harlem gets stranded in a provincial Danish town, after a bus accident involving his touring gospel choir. Alone amidst suspicious Danes, he teaches the local church choir to sing gospel music and touches the life of one bored housewife in particular.—Winnie Li
Plot Keywords: choir director, singer, church elder, visitor, reverend, african-american, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gangster boss (Ice-T) has a list of about 100 people who have screwed up at one point or another. Rather than outright killing them, he decides to have a little fun by putting all of them together in a high security prison, unarmed, and dumping bucketfulls of guns, ammo, and baseball bats on them and letting them kill each other. The final three who survive are given a prize of 10 million dollars. Let chaos reign.—<jculver@gonzaga.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime boss, african-american, gang member, intense, emotional, gritty, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1964, New York City activist Mickey Schwerner (Tom Hulce) takes a field position in rural Mississippi on behalf of the civil rights group known as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). There Schwerner; his wife, Rita (Jennifer Grey) ; and fellow activists Andrew Goodman (Josh Charles) and James Chaney (Blair Underwood) endure harassment by local thugs and police, as well as violent hate-mongers the Ku Klux Klan, in their quest to help African-Americans secure their basic human rights.
Plot Keywords: civil rights activist, jew, african-american, wife, colleague, racist, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After an unsuccessful mission, FBI agents Kevin Copeland and Marcus Copeland fall in disgrace in the agency. They decide to swap their bad position with his superior Section Chief Elliott Gordon working undercover in an abduction case, disguised in the two spoiled white daughters of a tycoon, Brittany and Tiffany Wilson, getting in hilarious situations.
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, brother, african-american, white woman, sister, socialite, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Matthias Breecher is hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals. As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, detective, senator, african-american, war criminal, pioneer, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Jungle Village, the leader of the Lion's clan Gold Lion is summoned by the Governor and assigned to protect his gold that will be transported through the village. However he is betrayed and murdered by the greedy Silver Lion and Bronze Lion. Gold Lion's favorite son Zen Yi, a.k.a. The X-Blade, seeks revenge and heads to Jungle Village, but he is defeated by Brass Body and rescued by the local Blacksmith Thaddeus. Meanwhile the Gemini Female and the Gemini Male protect the Governor's gold, but they are vanquished by the army of Silver and Bronze Lion. The Blacksmith is abducted by the Lions and has his arms severed by Brass Body. However he is saved by the British Jack Knife, who is the emissary of the Emperor, and he manufactures iron arms for Thaddeus. Meanwhile the Governor sends the Jackal army to fight against the Lions and they hide the gold in the brothel of Madam Blossom. However, Madam Blossom and her girls form an army of black widows and together with Jack, Zen Yi and The...
Plot Keywords: blacksmith, warrior, villager, villain, prostitute, african-american, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The German war machine is in retreat. Two American M 18 tank destroyers are sent to root out a die hard group of Nazis holed up in the Harz Mountains.
Plot Keywords: soldiers, african-american, german, suspenseful, tank, battle, work ...
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