Take a Giant Step (1959), Trouble Man (1972), The Proud Valley (1940), Shaft (1971), My Man and I (1952), Brother John (1971), They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970), Slam (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Black Protagonist movies.
Storyline: A 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 and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.—David Stevens
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, race, social issues, teenager, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to keep a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete. Then things get complicated. A pool hall, a boxing gym, women's well-furnished apartments, and the mean streets of L.A. give T room to sort out what seems from what is.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, action, drama, mystery, thriller, detective, urban ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 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.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: wales, working class, race relations, unemployment, solidarity, discrimination, black protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, detective, new york, 1970s, black protagonist, tough guy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chu Chu Ramirez is an American of Mexican decent farm laborer in California, with lofty ideals, who is very proud of his new American citizenship. During his time off, he tries to befriend the alcoholic bar girl Nancy. After working for a month for the subsistence farmer Mr. Ames and his frustrated wife, Chu Chu discovers that his paycheck bounces and Ames stalls in paying him. Just after a confrontation between Ames and Chu Chu, Ames is accidentally wounded by his own shotgun and he and his wife blame it on Chu Chu. Despite the support of his friends and sympathetic Sheriff, Chu Chu is given a year's sentence.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, social issues, race relations, marriage, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Kane (Sidney Poitier) always seems to know when there will be a death in his family, despite not being in touch with them, and returns to his hometown. He has come home again, to be at his sister's deathbed and funeral. There is a strike in the town, and the police think he is a labor agitator. His well-used passport and unusual book collection only fuel their suspicions. But the town's doctor has always noticed that John is different, and thinks he has a larger purpose in life.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, usa, race, social issues, murder, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher and political candidate is accused of murdering a prostitute. Tibbs is also battling domestic woes, including a frustrated wife and a rebellious adolescent son.—Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, mystery, detective, black protagonist, racial issues, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ray Joshua (Saul Williams), a talented black poet from the Washington, D.C., projects, is arrested on petty drug charges and thrown into the black hole that is the D.C. jail. There he meets the two people who can redirect his life: a prison gang leader and a beautiful female poet teaching a self-expression class for inmates.
Plot Keywords: independent film, prison, social injustice, urban life, racial issues, black protagonist, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate hisbrother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: action, crime, revenge, brotherhood, gangster, 1970s, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, race, history, slavery, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael Trainer is a lawyer at the center of a trial in which a for-profit Foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, with catastrophic results. Michael, a successful litigator with a long career in protecting corporate clients, has been blinded from recognizing the real damage they can cause. He wants nothing to do with Jamal's case until a Judge forces him to accept it. Initially he sees Jamal, as a thuggish African American youth trying to get a piece of corporate profits. But when Jamal refuses to settle the case for any amount of money, Michael begins his representation in earnest. As their work together reveals the horrifying depth of the corrupt and abusive for-profit Foster care agency, Michael is transformed from reluctant defender to fierce warrior in the battle for justice.
Plot Keywords: legal, drama, social justice, courtroom, based on true events, usa, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brad Gluckman or "B-rad" acts like he is from the hood, when he is white and lives in a rich neighborhood in Malibu. He is ruining his fathers election for governor, and he and his crew come up with an idea, to send "B-rad" to the hood to turn him back into a white boy. This movie is filled with laughs and is a great comedy.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, crime, racial issues, identity, father-son relationship, undercover ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, police, undercover, high school, los angeles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A therapist (Stellan Skarsgard) treats a black stripper (Halle Berry) who has multiple personality disorder, including that of an imperious white racist.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, drama, racial issues, mental illness, based on true events, female protagonist, identity crisis ...
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