2010's Black Movies: More Than 400 Films List

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Burning Sands Trailer
Black Cast
DeRon Horton, Imani Hakim, Mitchell Edwards, Nafessa Williams, Serayah, Steve Harris, Tosin Cole, Trevante Rhodes, Trevor Jackson, Alfre Woodard
Release Date
January 24, 2017
Synopsis

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

Burning Sands

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

Comedy, Drama, Crime
Black Cast
Ashleigh Murray, Danielle Nicolet, Rachel Crow, Sasheer Zamata
Release Date
January 23, 2017
Synopsis

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
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Roxanne, Roxanne Trailer
Black Cast
Chanté Adams, Elvis Nolasco, Kevin Phillips, Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, Shenell Edmonds
Release Date
January 22, 2017
Synopsis

The most feared battle emcee in early-'80s NYC was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14, hustling the streets to provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend.

Roxanne, Roxanne
Release Date
January 19, 2017
Synopsis

In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.

Waiting for Hassana

Sleepless

Action, Crime, Thriller
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Black Cast
Gabrielle Union, Jamie Foxx, Octavius J. Johnson, Sala Baker, T.I.
Release Date
January 12, 2017
Synopsis

Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has got a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters gets T, Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night, he will have to rescue his son T (who they got), evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.

Sleepless

Fences

Drama, Motherhood
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Black Cast
Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Jovan Adepo, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, Saniyya Sidney, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Release Date
December 16, 2016
Synopsis

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

Fences

Hidden Figures

Drama, Female-Led, Motherhood
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Black Cast
Ariana Neal, Janelle Monáe, Mahershala Ali, Octavia Spencer, Saniyya Sidney, Taraji P. Henson
Release Date
December 10, 2016
Synopsis

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

Hidden Figures

Two Is a Family

Comedy, Drama
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Black Cast
Ashley Walters, Gloria Colston, Omar Sy
Release Date
December 07, 2016
Synopsis

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

Two Is a Family

Collateral Beauty

Drama, Romance
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Black Cast
Jacob Latimore, Liza Colón-Zayas, Naomie Harris, Will Smith, Harriett D. Foy
Release Date
December 06, 2016
Synopsis

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

Collateral Beauty
Black Cast
Adama Niane, Eriq Ebouaney, Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Release Date
November 30, 2016
Synopsis

A gun to be heard, a pen to make yourself understood. The identical course of four young West Indians men who arrived to Paris in the 70's.

Gang of the Caribbean

I Am Bolt

Documentary
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Black Cast
Neymar Jr., Serena Williams, Usain Bolt
Release Date
November 28, 2016
Synopsis

Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be captured at his fourth and final Olympic Games in Rio, where he will compete for the gold in both the 100 and 200 metres races, for a third straight Games before his retirement in 2017. I AM BOLT will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.

I Am Bolt
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Michael Che Matters Trailer
Black Cast
Michael Che
Release Date
November 25, 2016
Synopsis

"SNL" star Michael Che takes on hot-button topics like inequality, homophobia and gentrification in this stand-up set filmed live in Brooklyn.

Michael Che Matters

A United Kingdom

Drama, History
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Black Cast
Arnold Oceng, David Oyelowo, Terry Pheto, Amma Asante, Vusi Kunene
Release Date
November 25, 2016
Synopsis

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

A United Kingdom

Whitney: Can I Be Me

Documentary, Music
Black Cast
Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston, Mike Tyson, Whitney Houston
Release Date
April 24, 2017
Synopsis

The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.

Whitney: Can I Be Me

Little Boxes

Comedy, Drama
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Black Cast
Armani Jackson, Nelsan Ellis
Release Date
April 14, 2017
Synopsis

It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.

Little Boxes

Chasing Trane

Documentary, Music
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Black Cast
Common, Cornel West, Denzel Washington, Wynton Marsalis
Release Date
April 14, 2017
Synopsis

The film explores the global power and impact of the music of John Coltrane and reveals the passions, experiences and forces that shaped his life and revolutionary sounds.

Chasing Trane

Okafor's Law

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Date
April 01, 2017
Synopsis

A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.

Okafor's Law
Release Date
March 24, 2017
Synopsis

A mute make up artist whose sole means of communication is through the written word becomes close to the son of one of her best clients, however there is an obstacle stopping her from fully allowing him into her world. Starring Abisola Aiyeola, Mofe Duncan, Shaffy Bello-Akinrimisi and Uche Ogbodo.

Ovy's Voice
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Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin Trailer
Black Cast
Dave Chappelle, Stan Lathan
Release Date
March 21, 2017
Synopsis

Comedy icon Dave Chappelle makes his triumphant return to the screen with a pair of blistering, fresh stand-up specials. Filmed at The Palladium in Los Angeles, California, in March 2016.

Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin

Slow Country

Drama, Action
Release Date
March 17, 2017
Synopsis

A homeless teenage mother, who gets herself trapped in prostitution and drug trafficking for seven years in order to secure a good life for her son, decides to quit but her boss, a ruthless human and drug trafficker is not ready to let go of his most trusted cash cow.

Slow Country