Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.

Hollywood Shuffle

1987

English

6.9

♡ 11

88%

Robert Townsend Director

Robert Townsend as Bobby Taylor / Jasper / Speed / Sam Ace / Rambro

Anne-Marie Johnson as Lydia / Willie Mae / Hooker #5

Christopher Jackson as Punk #1

Dom Irrera as Writer

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.

Breaking In

2018

English

5.5

♡ 95

27%

James McTeigue Director

Richard Cabral as Duncan

Billy Burke as Eddie

Jason George as Justin Russell

Gabrielle Union as Shaun Russell

Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.

Soul Plane

2004

English

4.6

♡ 14

16%

51%

Action

african american comedy

Jessy Terrero Director

Missi Pyle as Barbara Lil Jon

Lil Jon as Himself

D.L. Hughley as Johnny

Kevin Hart as Nashawn

Following a ridiculously awful flight that leads to his pet's death, Nashawn Wade files a lawsuit against the airline, and wins a multimillion-dollar settlement. Determined to create a better flying experience, Nashawn starts his own airline, one that caters to an African-American clientele. Going into business with a tricked-out plane piloted by the smooth Capt. Mack, the airline hits a snag when it has to deal with the family of Elvis Hunkee.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

English

5.6

♡ 25

15%

Brian De Palma Director

Kirsten Dunst as Campbell McCoy

Morgan Freeman as Judge Leonard White

Bruce Willis as Peter Fallow

Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

Wattstax

1973

English

7.6

♡ 4

90%

Mel Stuart Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Isaac Hayes as Self

Melvin Van Peebles as Self

Mavis Staples as Self - The Staple Singers

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.

Black Mother

2018

English

7.0

♡ 2

97%

Khalik Allah Director

Part film, part baptism, in BLACK MOTHER director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Their candid testimonies create a polyphonic symphony, set against a visual prayer of indelible portraiture. Thoroughly immersed between the sacred and profane, BLACK MOTHER channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present.

Sanders of the River

1935

English

5.4

♡ 3

80%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Leslie Banks as Commissioner R.G. Sanders

Martin Walker as J. Ferguson

James Solomon as Kaluba

Nina Mae McKinney as Lilongo

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

1998

English

5.7

♡ 9

51%

Kevin Rodney Sullivan Director

Barry Shabaka Henley as Buddy

Whoopi Goldberg as Delilah Abraham

Richard Lawson as Jack

Angela Bassett as Stella Payne

Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, ends as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love – even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.

Time Sleeper

2020

English

4.2

♡ 3

Bisong Taiwo Director

Stephen Irom Gatphoh as DJ Steve

Joanne Roberts as Nurse

Terry Hamel as Priest

Gloria Thompson as Sarah

Sarah, upon accidentally discovering time travel through the use of a drug, must now travel back one year into the past to save her son from a fatal accident.

Crooklyn

1994

English

7.0

♡ 6

79%

jazz singer or musician

teacher

urban

Spike Lee Director RuPaul

RuPaul as Bodega Woman

Manny Perez as Hector

David Patrick Kelly as Tony Eyes / Jim

Arthur French as West Indian Store Manager

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

Ethnic Notions

1986

English

8.0

♡ 4

79%

Marlon Riggs Director

Leni Sloan as Cast: Choreographer

Larry C. Levine as Cast: UC Berkeley

Pat Turner as Cast UMass Boston

Esther Rolle as Narrator

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971

English

5.5

♡ 3

73%

Melvin Van Peebles Director

Joe Tornatore as

Nick Ferrari as

John Amos as Biker

Melvin Van Peebles as Sweetback

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

The Wanderers

1979

English

7.3

♡ 25

89%

Philip Kaufman Director

Ken Foree as Black Sportsman

John F. Kennedy as Himself

Karen Allen as Nina

Erland van Lidth as Terror

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

Ray

2004

English

7.7

♡ 63

79%

blindness and impaired vision

Taylor Hackford Director

Mike Pniewski as Bus Driver

David Krumholtz as Milt Shaw

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

Paula Jai Parker as Ruth Brown

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Guess Who

2005

English

5.9

♡ 37

41%

interracial relationship

Kevin Rodney Sullivan Director

Nadine Ellis as Dancer

Robert Curtis Brown as Dante

Ashton Kutcher as Simon Green

Zoe Saldana as Theresa Jones

When a young African-American woman brings her fiancé home to meet her parents, she's neglected to mention one tiny detail – he's white.

La mort de Danton

2011

French

6.8

♡ 1

Alice Diop Director

Steve Tientcheu as

Steve, a 25-year-old Black man from the Paris suburbs, seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France’s most prestigious drama schools. But soon he discovers that the theater world is only interested in having him inhabit “Black” roles.

Wayward

2022

English

4.7

♡ 6

35%

black people

california

dismemberment of human beings

Kurt Yochum Director

Darius McCrary as Anthony Demme

Adrian Sierkowski as Coroner

Iyana Halley as Dawn

Barton Fitzpatrick as Micah

After a meet-cute in a bar, Dawn and Micah's road trip to Portland turns into a nightmare when they're hunted by an infamous serial killer known as the Mechanic Maniac.