How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) (2005), Baadasssss! (2003), Down in the Delta (1998), The Green Pastures (1936), Friday (1995), The Five Heartbeats (1991), Malcolm X (1972), The Guard (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best African-americans movies.
Storyline: In 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-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: father, mother, brother, sister, fiancé, emotional, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.—Lisa Grable <grable@unity.ncsu.edu>
Plot Keywords: band leader, trumpeter, singer, aunt, gangster, friend, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This feature takes us into the world of "boosters" or shoplifters where a charismatic, intelligent young female booster from a dysfunctional family, notably her mother and grandmother, engages in the illegal occupation of shoplifting. A non-stereotypical view of how problematic family relations fed her foray into a criminal profession.—L. J. Allen-2
Plot Keywords: shoplifter, mother, grandmother, boyfriend, gangster, manager, suspenseful ...
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: Percy and Marilyn are renewing their vows for their anniversary, and their daughter Theresa brings her boyfriend Simon for them to meet. Unbeknownst to her parents, the kids plan to announce their engagement during the weekend. The Jones family is Black; Theresa neglects to tell them Simon is White. Race complicates Percy's general mistrust of any boyfriend, so he instigates an investigation of Simon, discovering he's recently lost his job and hasn't told Theresa. Mistrust rears its ugly head, and in the process of Theresa and Simon's argument, Marilyn and Percy fall out. What can the men do to cross the divide between each other and between men and women? Will anyone be exchanging vows?
Plot Keywords: fiancé, fiancée, father, daughter, amusing, frenetic, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young black reporter begins to lose his identity.
Plot Keywords: journalist, anchorman, producer, fiancée, best friend, frenetic, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Why just fly when you can soar with soul? After a humiliating experience on an airplane, Nashawn Wade sues the airline and is awarded a huge settlement. Determined to make good with the money, Nashawn creates the full service airline of his dreams, complete with sexy stewardesses, funky music, a hot onboard dance club, and a bathroom attendant. Departing from all-new Terminal X in Los Angeles, Soul Plane gives "fly" a whole new meaning taking its passengers on a maiden voyage full of comedy.
Plot Keywords: business owner, airline employee, pilot, passenger, unrestrained, outlandish, los angeles ...
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