25 YEARS OF BLACK MOVIES
The definitive list of contemporary Black films released by a major motion picture studio in the past 25 years. We define Black movies as films made for, by and starring a person of African descent.
| 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
|---|---|---|---|
| She's Gotta Have It | Hollywood Shuffle | Bird | Do The Right Thing |
| JoJo Dancer Your Life is Calling | Beverly Hills Cop | Coming to America | Glory |
| Jumpin Jack Flash | Critical Condition | School Daze | A Dry White Season |
| Golden Child | Disorderlies | I'm Gonna Get You Sucka | Lean On Me |
| Under The Cherry Moon | Hamburger Hill | Harlem Nights | |
| Fatal Beauty | Tap | ||
| Raw | The Mighty Quinn | ||
| Street Smarts | |||
| Leonard Part 6 |
| 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 |
|---|---|---|---|
| House Party | Boyz in The Hood | Malcolm X | What's Love Got To Do With It |
| Def By Temptation | Daughters of the Dust | Juice | Sankofa |
| Mo' Better Blues | Five Heartbeats | Mississippi Masala | Menace to Society |
| To Sleep with Anger | New Jack City | The Bodyguard | Poetic Justice |
| Another 48 Hours | Jungle Fever | Boomerang | Just Another Girl of the IRT |
| Strictly Business | BeBe's Kids | Posse | |
| A Rage In Harlem | Deep Cover | Six Degrees of Separation | |
| House Party 2 | Distinguished Gentlemen | ||
| One False Move | |||
| Straight Outta Brookyn |
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoop Dreams | Clockers | A Family Thing | Amistad |
| Crooklyn | Once Upon A Time We Were Colored | A Time To Kill | Buffalo Soldiers |
| The Inkwell | Higher Learning | Set It Off | Eve's Bayou |
| Jasons Lyric | Panther | Preachers Wife | Most Wanted |
| Sugar Hill | Waiting to Exhale | Don't Be Menace to South Central… | Love Jones |
| Friday | Dead Presidents | A Thin Line Between Love and Hate | Hav Plenty |
| House Party 3 | Tales From The Hood | Get on The Bus | Soul Food |
| The Glass Shield | Vampire In Brooklyn | Girl Six | Rosewood |
| Beverly Hills Cop 3 | Bad Boys | When We Were Kings | Jackie Brown |
| A Low Down Dirty Shame | Devil In A Blue Dress | Nutty Professor | BAPS |
| New Jersey Drive | Booty Call | ||
| The Walking Dead | Metro | ||
| Hodlum | |||
| Grodlock'd |
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|
| He Got Game | Life | Shaft | Glitter |
| Beloved | Hurricaine | Finding Forester | Ali |
| Fallen | Summer of Sam | Love & Basketball | Baby Boy |
| Enemy of the State | Light it Up | Big Mama's House | The Brothers |
| How Stella Got her Groove Back | The Best Man | Next Friday | Dr. Doolittle |
| The Ride | Belly | Remember the Titans | Two Can Play That Game |
| Down in The Delta | The Breaks | Scary Movie | Punks |
| Body Count | A Lesson before Dying | Bamboozled | Bones |
| Players Club | The Wood | Bait | Pootie Tang |
| Hope Floats | Bowfinger | Nutty Professor 2 | Rush Hour 2 |
| Woo | Scary Movie 2 | ||
| Rush Hour | Caveman's Valentine | ||
| The Negotiator | Traning Day | ||
| The Ride | From Hell | ||
| Dr. Doolittle | Fast and The Furious | ||
| Holy Man |
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Sugar | Fighting Temptations | Breaking All The Rules | Beauty Shop |
| Drumline | Deliver Us From Eva | Barbershop 2 | The Gospel |
| Barbershop | Head of State | Man on Fire | Four Brothers |
| Undercover Brother | Out of Time | Ray | Coach Carter |
| Antione Fisher | A Man Apart | She Hate Me | Roll Bounce |
| 25th Hour | Honey | Woman Tou Art Loosed | Tsotsi |
| Paid in Full | Biker Boyz | Mr. 3000 | Hustle & Flow |
| Juwanna Man | Nora's Hair Salon | Baadasssss! | |
| Pluto Nash | Love Don't Cost A Thing | King Arthur | |
| The Italian Job | Soul Plane | ||
| Daddy Day Care | The Cookout | ||
| Bad Boys 2 | White Chicks |
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Something New | Great Debaters | The Family That Preys | I Can Do Bad All By Myself |
| Big Mama's House 2 | Perfect Holiday | Meet The Browns | Madea Goes to Jail |
| Phat Girlz | Rush Hour 3 | Miracle at St. Anna | Obsessed |
| Dream Girls | I Think I Love My Wife | Seven Pounds | Brooklyn's Finest |
| Madeas Family Reunion | American Gangster | Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | Notorious |
| Inside Man | Why Did I get Married? | Soul Men | Next Day Air |
| Shadowboxer | Daddy's Litte Girls | Secret Life of Bees | Precious |
| ATL | This Christmas | Nora's Hair Salon 2 | Imagine That |
| Pursuit of Happyness | Illegal Tender | Meet Dave | Dance Flick |
| Little Man | Stomp The Yard | Cadillac Records | |
| The Last Holiday | Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom | ||
| Who's Your Caddy? | |||
| Norbit | |||
| I Am Legend |
| 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Just Wright | Jumping The Broom |
| Our Family Wedding | Madea's Big Happy Family |
| For Colored Girls | Big Mama's House 3 |
| Why Did I Get Married Too | Columbiana |
| Takers | |
| Losers | |
| The Book of Eli | |
| Karate Kid | |
| Night Catches Us | |
| Death at a Funeral |
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