The Color Purple (
2023) | IMDb:
0
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Starring:
Fantasia Barrino
,
Taraji P. Henson
,
Danielle Brooks
,
Colman Domingo
,
Corey Hawkins
,
H.E.R.
Selma (
2014) | IMDb:
7.5
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Directed by:
Ava DuVernay
The Hundred-Foot Journey (
2014) | IMDb:
7.3
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Precious (
2009) | IMDb:
7.3
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret; She can't read.
Starring:
Gabourey Sidibe
,
Mo'Nique
,
Paula Patton
,
Mariah Carey
,
Lenny Kravitz
,
Sherri Shepherd
Directed by:
Lee Daniels
The Great Debaters (
2007) | IMDb:
7.5
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Starring:
Denzel Whitaker
,
Denzel Washington
,
Nate Parker
,
Jurnee Smollett
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Kimberly Elise
Beloved (
1998) | IMDb:
6
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Starring:
Oprah Winfrey
,
Danny Glover
,
Thandiwe Newton
,
Kimberly Elise
,
LisaGay Hamilton
,
Albert Hall
Directed by:
Jonathan Demme