2000's Black Movies: +200 Films List

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Beauty Shop

Comedy, Romance
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Black Cast
Bille Woodruff, Della Reese, Golden Brooks, Keshia Knight Pulliam, LisaRaye McCoy, Queen Latifah, Sheryl Underwood, Alfre Woodard
Release Date
June 02, 2005
Synopsis

You thought you'd heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven't heard anything yet - the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop.

Beauty Shop

Guess Who

Comedy, Romance
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Black Cast
Bernie Mac, Hal Williams, Judith Scott, Kellee Stewart, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Zoe Saldana
Release Date
March 25, 2005
Synopsis

The fiancé of an African-American woman who's met with skepticism and suspicion from her father when she takes him home for the all-important introduction. As the wedding approaches, Dad must come to terms with his future son-in-law.

Guess Who
Black Cast
Gabriel Casseus, Halle Berry, Lorraine Toussaint, Lynette DuPree, Michael Ealy, Nicki Micheaux, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ruby Dee, Terrence Howard
Release Date
March 06, 2005
Synopsis

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Black Cast
Cicely Tyson, Kimberly Elise, Lisa Marcos, Shemar Moore, Steve Harris, Tamara Taylor, Tyler Perry
Release Date
February 25, 2005
Synopsis

Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Sometimes in April

Drama, History, War
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Black Cast
Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Fraser James, Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Raoul Peck
Release Date
February 17, 2005
Synopsis

Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.

Sometimes in April

Are We There Yet?

Comedy, Romance, Adventure, Family
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Black Cast
Henry Simmons, Ice Cube, Nia Long, Philip Bolden, Sean Millington, Aleisha Allen, Viv Leacock
Release Date
January 20, 2005
Synopsis

The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Portland, Oregon. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom dates, are determined to turn the trip into a nightmare for Nick.

Are We There Yet?

Coach Carter

Drama, History
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Black Cast
Octavia Spencer, Rob Brown, Robert Ri'chard, Samuel L. Jackson, Sonya Eddy, Ashanti, Debbi Morgan, Antwon Tanner, Dana Davis
Directed By Black
Thomas Carter
Release Date
January 14, 2005
Synopsis

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Coach Carter

Drum

Drama, Action, Thriller
Release Date
October 30, 2004
Synopsis

A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.

Drum
Black Cast
Adina Porter, Darrin Henson, Dondre Whitfield, Kelvin Davis, Kym Whitley, Mark Brown, Monica Calhoun, Terrence Howard, Vivica A. Fox
Release Date
January 13, 2005
Synopsis

A Beauty shop owner finds romance as she struggles to save her business.

The Salon

The Bridesmaid

Comedy, Romance
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Release Date
January 01, 2005
Synopsis

Kate plans to marry Steve for his riches. Her best friend Tega is coaching her on how to capture his love. Steve wants a wife to love him not for his money so he fakes a crippling accident that leaves him in a wheelchair. Kate asked Tega to care for him while she travels to London for shopping. Steve and Tega realize they love each other. At the alter truth is told.

The Bridesmaid

My Uncle Killed a Guy

Comedy, Adventure, Crime
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Black Cast
Darlan Cunha, Lázaro Ramos, Ailton Graça
Release Date
December 12, 2004
Synopsis

Eder (Lázaro Ramos) is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca (Darlan Cunha), a 15 years old boy who is Eder's nephew, wants to prove the innocence of his uncle, he's sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya (Deborah Secco), ex-wife of the deceased. Duca also wants to win the heart of Isa (Sophia Reis), a classmate who seems more interested in his best friend, Kid (Renan Gioelli). To be able to prove his theory, Duca gets help from Isa and Kid.

My Uncle Killed a Guy

Fat Albert

Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Black Cast
Dania Ramirez, Jermaine Williams, Keith Robinson, Kenan Thompson, Marques Houston, Shedrack Anderson III
Release Date
December 12, 2004
Synopsis

An obese boy named Fat Albert and his friends Rudy, Mushmouth, Bill, Dumb Donald, Russell, and Weird Harold, pulls into trouble when they "fall" out of their TV world into the real world, where Fat Albert tries to help a young girl, Doris, make friends.

Fat Albert

Blade: Trinity

Action, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Vampires
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Black Cast
Mark Berry, Wesley Snipes
Release Date
December 08, 2004
Synopsis

For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed—The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him—the original vampire, Dracula.

Blade: Trinity

Ray

Drama, Music
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Black Cast
Bokeem Woodbine, C.J. Sanders, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Sharon Warren
Release Date
October 29, 2004
Synopsis

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.

Ray
Black Cast
Wesley Snipes
Release Date
October 20, 2004
Synopsis

The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.

Unstoppable

Phat Girlz

Comedy, Romance
Black Cast
Godfrey, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Joyful Drake, Mo'Nique
Release Date
January 01, 2006
Synopsis

Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.

Phat Girlz

Getting Played

Comedy, Romance
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Black Cast
Bill Bellamy, Dorian Gregory, Joe Torry, Joseph C. Phillips, Larry B. Scott, Stacey Dash, Vivica A. Fox
Release Date
December 10, 2005
Synopsis

Three beautiful women (Electra, Dash, and Fox) who have had their share of men trouble enter into a game of fun in which they choose a random guy and film each other seducing him so as to use the footage later to humiliate him. But problems arise when the random man is in on the joke.

Getting Played

Twitches

Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
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Black Cast
Arnold Pinnock, Karen Holness, Tamera Mowry, Tia Mowry
Release Date
October 14, 2005
Synopsis

Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But when Camryn leaves Alex to face the darkness alone, will Coventry be doomed? Or will the sisters multiply their magic by standing together?

Twitches

Roll Bounce

Comedy, Drama, Family
Black Cast
Brandon T. Jackson, Chi McBride, Meagan Good, Mike Epps, Nick Cannon, Shad Moss, Wayne Brady, Wesley Jonathan
Directed By Black
Malcolm D. Lee
Release Date
September 23, 2005
Synopsis

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

Roll Bounce
Black Cast
Danielle Ornelas, Léa Garcia, Maria Ceiça, Milton Gonçalves, Rocco Pitanga, Ruth de Souza, Taís Araújo
Release Date
September 16, 2005
Synopsis

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart. One of them headed for the big city, trying to secure a career as an actress. The other stayed to look after their father.

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