What are your fav movies with black actors/actresses?

I love Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, both directed by Barry Jenkins.

Oh, I loved Moonlight, too! (I’m OP.) haven’t seen Beale Street yet.

Dreamgirls

Set it Off

Coming to America (I also liked the sequel) Dolemite Is My Name Noah's ARC Jumping the Broom Harlem Nights Boyz n the Hood New Jack City

I will never get the formatting right on this site

From the 90s:

Eve’s Bayou

Crooklyn

Soul Food

The Preacher’s Wife

Love Jones

I loved Alfre Woodward in Passionfish

Dennis Haysbert in Far from Heaven.

Coming to America from the 80s.

"Nothing but a Man" (1964) is an interesting period piece, with excellent acting.

I really liked Black KKKlansman and most of Spike Lee’s work, actually. Do the Right Thing is his best.

I second Coming to America, that movie is fantastic.

Tales From the Hood. Sounds potentially cheesy, I know, but it's one of the best horror anthology films since the British Amicus movies and Creepshow.

Claudine. Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones were everything in that movie.

I really enjoyed “This Christmas.” It’s got a great cast, too — Idris Elba, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, for starters.

Foxy Brown

Coffy

Cleopatra Jones

Anything with Poitier of course (well, most things), Cabin in the Sky, Sounder, and a dumb movie but somewhat progressive for its time, Norman. . . Is That You?

A Low Down Dirty Shame - Jada Pinkett, Salli Richardson--ridiculous as hell but that VHS kept 11-year-old me entertained for many years. Probably should have known why earlier!

Friday

Blacula

Scream, Blacula, Scream!

Abby

Ganja and Hess

The House on Skull Mountain

Gone With The Wind, Sounder, In The Heat Of The Night, Doubt.

R20 Gone with the Wind is a controversial choice, but I agree. Mammy was a complex and well drawn character. Her relationship with Scarlett, Rhett, and Melanie feels authentic for the time.

I love The Color Purple.

Flat out.

Good call, formerBHmanny. I wish Spielberg had a better editor to protect him from his excesses but I still love the move.

R21 - Is GWTW a controversial choice for a favorite movie? I can see why people have problems with some of it and why it wouldn't be some people's favorite, but it's a great story about a woman's struggle and realizing the consequences of her actions. It's a great drama.

Strange Days, Enemy Mine, Bulworth, The Cowboys, Green Book, Ghostbusters, Jackie Brown, Se7en, Putney Swope, Car Wash, To Sir With Love, Fame, Paris Is Burning, Kinky Boots, Beautiful Thing, O:ST & ST:NG films, Fried Green Tomatoes, Matrix, 13th, Uncle Tom, Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools, Tongues United, Gay Cuba, Portrait of Jason, Six Degrees of Separation, Belle, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome, American Gangster, spiderman, The Gods Must Be Crazy,

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Well, let’s talk about art!

Night of the Living Dead

Candyman

Jackie Brown

actually the only QT movie I like.

Sounder

Claudine

I have to add onto the suggestions of Jackie Brown. I love this movie.

Hamilton

Lila & Eve (Viola Davis and JLo)

Enemy of the State

Ghost Dog: The way of the Samurai (Forest Whitaker)

Get Out

Creed

Django Unchained

Black Panther

12 years a Slave.

She's Gotta Have It (1986) The Landlord (1970) The Incident (1967) Nothing But a Man (1964) Lilies of the Field (1963) The L-Shaped Room (1962) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Imitation of Life (1959 Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Edge of the City (1957) The Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Some of you are hilarious, listing movies like Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. At least limit yourselves to movies where Black actors play main characters.

"The Birth of a Nation" (1915)

The Brother From Another Planet (1984)

Daughters of the Dust, utterly gorgeous and dreamlike.

[quote]Some of you are hilarious, listing movies like Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. At least limit yourselves to movies where Black actors play main characters.

Learn how to read. The OP said, "fav movies WITH black actors..." not "starring."

My favorite network TV show of all time, Homicide: Life on the Street, starred Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson, and Yaphet Kotto.

R32 Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird is not a minor character the trial centers around him.

A Member of the Wedding (1952)

Black Dynamite

Coming to America

Men in Black

Blade

White Girls

Candyman

Driving Miss Daisy!

And if we're sneaking in TV shows - The Wire.

I hated "Waiting to Exhale (Shoop Shoop) " with Whitney's wooden acting, Angela chewing the scenery with her usual overacting and Terry McMillan's pedestrian script.

Hidden Figures was a fun and interesting movie though.

Jason's Lyric - Allen Payne was so fucking sexy and Jada in one of her early roles.

Lady Sings the Blues - Diana Ross was fantastic in this, as was Richard Pryor

Sparkle - Lonette McKee was absolutely stunning in this film. Should have been nominated for an Oscar. ed -

Beloved - it's better known as Oprah's flop film but there's a lot to admire about this film -- the cast, Rachel Portman's beautiful score, the cinematography.

I'll double down on my vote for The Color Purple.

I do agree there was too much sugar but the film holds up.

I am surprised Precious hasn't been mentioned. Hard to watch. Very well done.

The above is the only time I had any hope for JLo. Besides The Cell, she never came up with much.

and P.S. her sexy stuff is hanging by a thread.

I stand by my statement. Next you’re going to start listing Woody Allen films. Wasn’t there a maid in Hannah and Her Sisters?

[italic]Topaz[/italic] isn't Hitchcock's very best, but it was the first movie I saw Roscoe Lee Browne act in. Love at first sight. He has a small part in [italic]Jumpin Jack Flash[/italic] also, just two scenes though.

[italic]How Stella Got Her Groove Back[/italic] includes a Taye Diggs shower scene, and Regina King as a less than professional EMT.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

"I gotta go downtown and see a man about Jury Duty"

The Crying Game

[quote]Next you’re going to start listing Woody Allen films.

Chiwetel Ejiofor was one of the leads in Melinda and Melinda, which was actually a very enjoyable film from what I remember.

He was also great in Inside Man, for which Jodie Foster deserved every supporting nomination going.

Flirting with Thandiwe Newton was great, with Nicola Kidman in one of her earliest roles as the head girl in a boarding school. Thandiwe Newton didn't have a great time on set, she was 16 and in an abusive relationshiop with the director, but she was so good in it.

Someone mentioned Whoopi Goldberg in Jumpin' Jack Flash. I loved her late '80s comedies. They didn't do very well but I still love watching JJF, Burglar and Fatal Beauty.

I watched dozens of "Blaxploitation" movies and my definite fave was "Across 110th Street". That movie should be better known.

B.A.P.S.

[quote]I stand by my statement. Next you’re going to start listing Woody Allen films. Wasn’t there a maid in Hannah and Her Sisters?

No one actually gives a fuck what you think, r32.

Carmen Jones

Nothing But a Man

For Love of Ivy

Lady Sings the Blues

The Color Purple

Jason's Lyric

Waiting To Exhale

What's Love Got to do With It?

Strictly Business

Get your asses over to "Cabin in the Sky" and "Cleopatra Jones."

Does the entire cast have to be black?

No love for Mahogany?

Fear of a Black Hat, funny movie about rap and hip-hop. The director Rusty Cundieff was easy on the eyes. Rusty was also an actor, Not sure what he looks like now, but he was attractive.

Rusty, in the middle, with Joe Torry, Tisha Campbell and Paula Jai Parker, in a publicity shot for the film "Sprung" (1997).

Fear of a Black Hat is hilarious and underrated.

It's like a hip hop This is Spinal Tap.

Soul Plane, starring Academy Award winner Mo'Nique.

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

Do yourself a favor, check this one out...

Trading Places.

Denholm Elliott was perfect.

R47 The actors in Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird not only play significant roles but, their characters are recognized by name. Annie Joe Edwards as Delilah the maid in The Purple Rose of Cairo is the only black actor I recall in an Allen film. She appears in the film with in the fim and has a few lines.

Poetic Justice

Spike Lee’s SCHOOL DAZE tackled all the isms (colorism, racism, sexism, classism) and was like a who’s who of future A Different World stars.

Purple Rain

Sidney Poitier in "To Sir, with Love" (1967)

Speaking (as someone did above) about Chiwetel Ejiofor:

Kinky Boots

"Car Wash" (1976)

Eve’s Bayou, Fear of a Black Hat

Gugu Mbatha Raw in Black Mirror’s San Junipero episode.

I'm sorry, but I loooooove Big Momma's House.

I love Norbit. Eddie Murphy (yeah, I know he’s got some homophobia issues) is really funny. He’s also underrated as a dramatic actor, but that’s another thread, I guess.

Sounder is great if you haven’t seen it. So is Cooley High. Watermelon Man is a fascinating look as well.

One that’s I’ve never seen but always wanted to was Is That You Norman?

From Germany:

Fassbinder's Ali Fear Eats the Soul

and from Brazil:

Black Orpheus

Daughters of the Dust is unlike any movie you will ever see and experience.

[quote]Fear of a Black Hat is hilarious and underrated. It's like a hip hop This is Spinal Tap.

Yes, the film was hilarious, it should have done better. I have the film on VHS. Years ago, I taped if from one of the cable movie channels. I have the CD too.

LSTB . i saw it 4 times and jacked off thinking about BDW

Wilhelmenia Fernandez is great in the French movie Diva (1981).

Loved Lonette McKee in Sparkle, it's a shame Aretha hijacked the soundtrack album. Her restored scenes in the director's cut of Cotton Club are wonderful, especially her rendition of Ill Wind.

R81 you can get it on DVD now!

R53 I had a lesbian fries in college who had all of those posters on her wall! I guess 80s Whoopi was a lesbian icon!

Friend of fries

The Wood

Inkwell

The Family That Preys - Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates >>> Tyler Perry

ROLL BOUNCE (2005)

Glory: Denzel and Cary Elwess in their prime Don’t be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Juice in the Hood: Silly spoof of Gangsta movies Beloved: Widely missunderstood version of the Toni Morrison classic The Great White Hope: James Earl Jones as Boxer Jack Johnson A Soldier’s Story: Howard E. Rollins & Adolph Caesar Lady Sings the Blues: Miss Diana Ross as Billie Holiday Stormy Weather: Lena Horne Malcolm X: Spike Lee’s autobiography stars Denzel Amistad Hotel Rwanda Carmen Jones Car wash Sounder Color Purple

I know it's kind of a mess but I loved "The Wiz" as a kid.

Not quite what the OP meant, but Scatman Crothers never seems to get the credit he deserves for his role in "The Shining".

Two movies from the 1970's: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Conrack (but it stars Jon Voight).

[quote]Not quite what the OP meant, but Scatman Crothers never seems to get the credit he deserves for his role in "The Shining".

So true. Everybody talks about Jack and Shelley but Crothers gave a great performance, deserved a Supporting nod and he doesn't get enough credit. His character was perhaps the one I cared about the most.

Amos and Andy

Beulah

The Minstrels

Anything with scared black people running around and being funny!

I also like the movie Precious because I think it truly represents at least 95% of what the Blacks in this country are about.

ROLL/BOUNCE

ATL

FRIDAY

NEXT FRIDAY

GIRL TRIP

HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE

I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA

EVE'S BAYOU

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

JUST MERCY

Karen Cunt at R93, the correct title is Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, bitch.

Don't forget to use the correct name or I will CUT you, ho!

"Harlem Nights"

"I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" (Yes, R94!)

"Corrina, Corrina" (not entirely black)

"Clara's Heart"

"Booty Call"

"Friday"

"Next Friday"

"Two Can Play That Game"

"A Thin Line Between Love And Hate" (though I haven't cared for Martin Lawrence in decades, Lynn Whitfield MADE this movie)

"The Gods Must Be Crazy"

"The Family That Preys"

"A Raisin In The Sun" - 2008 Despite Sean Combs' hideous face, he actually gives a decent performance, but the best performances are from the women.

Pretty much all of the Blaxploitation films from the 1970s

Focusing here on movies with a black lead and mostly white rest of the cast:

Both the original Night of the Living Dead and the 1990s remake are great

Blazing Saddles

Imitation of Life, both of them, but I probably didn't need to even mention it

Trading Places

Blue Collar

Silver Streak

Jojo Dancer, Your Life is Calling is really great but it is a tough watch.

Hollywood Shuffle is hilarious, if you like movies like Amazon Women on the Moon or Kentucky Fried Movie, you'll like Hollywood Shuffle.

If you can stomach watching Bill Cosby, then Uptown Saturday Night is a good one.

Inside Man with Denzel is FANTASTIC, I loved it, but I know a lot of people thought it was meh.

What I liked about Scatman Crothers' character in The Shining is that he was obviously meant to be the "magical Negro" trope (which I believe comes from the book) and he was the guy who believed in "the shining" supernatural stuff, but he was also the only normal, sensible, level-headed adult in the whole film.

Probably should have looked behind him a little more often, though.

La La Land

The Help, If Beale Street Could Talk, Do the Right Thing (the very best), BlacKKKlansman, Jungle Fever, Clemency, Eve's Bayou, The Nutty Professor. There are lots of great ones.

I like most Spike Lee films. GET ON THE BUS for me, was probably his best.

I love Alexander Basil Matthews in Aliens. That is my favorite movie with a black person.

ESPN did an epic multipart documentary on OJ Simpson that is a genre defining work that even non sports enthusiast should watch.

R92 His was the only sympathetic character, yeah. Great performance.

Did anyone see the Women of Brewster Place miniseries? I taped it on my VCR and watched it over and over. There’s a very good/poignant scene between a lesbian couple which stuck with me.

Beverly Hills Cop

Bad Boys

Widows

Hidden Figures

r98, it was Meh because of the Jody Foster character. Edit her out and it's a good movie.

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, starring Cicely Tyson. It was a tv movie but if it had been a theater release then she should’ve won an Oscar for her amazing performance. I had read the novel in 4th grade and did a book report on it in 1989. I didn’t know an old’70s tv movie based on the novel existed. Managed to catch the movie one afternoon on tv years later. Very faithful to the novel and Tyson played the character from teen years to elderly.