2010's Black Movies: More Than 400 Films List

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Alex Cross

Mystery, Action, Crime, Thriller
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Black Cast
Carmen Ejogo, Cicely Tyson, Giancarlo Esposito, Tyler Perry
Release Date
October 18, 2012
Synopsis

After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

Alex Cross
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Black Cast
Carlton Byrd, Chidi Ajufo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Jaida - Iman Benjamin, LisaGay Hamilton, Richard T. Jones, Rickey Brown
Release Date
June 22, 2013
Synopsis

Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.

Life of a King

Brazilian Western

Drama, Romance, Crime, Western
Black Cast
Fabrício Boliveira
Release Date
May 31, 2013
Synopsis

An adaptation of the eponymous song by Renato Russo, a famous Brazilian singer and composer who in the style of Bob Dylan knew how to delight crowds by telling stories and singing with his lyrics. Focusing on the love story of outlaw João do Santo Cristo with Architecture major student Maria Lúcia, the movie takes place in Brasilia in the early 80s. In a clash of interest, drug dealers and the police conflict with one another,while the end of the military dictatorship in the Capital of Brazil, Brasilia takes place. The wanderings and tedium of a young rocker, who lived in a city still being built, are the backdrop for this story.

Brazilian Western

After Earth

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
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Black Cast
Jaden Martin, Jaden Smith, Sophie Okonedo, Will Smith, Zoë Kravitz
Release Date
May 30, 2013
Synopsis

One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

After Earth

Peeples

Comedy
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Black Cast
Craig Robinson, David Alan Grier, Diahann Carroll, Kali Hawk, Kerry Washington, Melvin Van Peebles, S. Epatha Merkerson, Tina Gordon Chism, Tyler James Williams
Release Date
May 09, 2013
Synopsis

The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.

Peeples

Belle

Drama, Female-Led
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Black Cast
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Amma Asante
Release Date
May 01, 2013
Synopsis

BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar's son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England

Belle
Release Date
April 09, 2013
Synopsis

FORGETTING JUNE tells the story of a young happily married couple who are seriously in love . Suddenly the wife gets into a fatal accident and the man thinks she is dead. And decides to date her best friend. And now realises she is still alive but has lost her memory. This is when the story kicks into action.

Forgetting June

Better Mus' Come

Action, Crime
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Black Cast
Sheldon Shepherd
Release Date
March 15, 2013
Synopsis

The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their political agenda. It is a fictionalized dramatization of real historical events, specifically, the Green Bay Massacre, where the government finally tracked down these gangs and had systematically wiped out.

Better Mus' Come
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Destination: Planet Negro! Trailer
Black Cast
Kevin Willmott, Tosin Morohunfola, Trai Byers
Release Date
February 16, 2013
Synopsis

In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.

Destination: Planet Negro!
Black Cast
Alexis Jones, Tyler Perry
Release Date
February 05, 2013
Synopsis

Tyler Perry's new musical stage play starring the infamous Mabel Simmons or "Madea" as her fans know her. When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of community service at a local retirement home the residents and staff are not ready for Madea's brand of "the truth", but all is well that ends well when Madea helps the residence of Easy Rest Retirement Home realize the importance of family, love and forgiveness.

Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play

The Love Section

Comedy, Drama
Black Cast
Brian Hooks, Davetta Sherwood, Lawrence B. Adisa, Mekhi Phifer, Teyana Taylor
Release Date
February 01, 2013
Synopsis

Ali (LAWRENCE ADISA), is a struggling real estate agent and ladies man who has never desired to commit to anyone or anything. One night while out with his buddy Chris (OMAR MILLER), Ali meets and falls for Sandrine (DAVETTA SHERWOOD), a single mother who works hard and is looking for love. Ali’s best friend Joel (BRIAN HOOKS) and his wife (TANGI MILLER) are happy to see Ali cut off his line of women, while Sandrine’s best friend Steph (TEYANA TAYLOR) is unenthusiastic about Sandrine welcoming a man into her home to meet her son and mother (KELLITA SMITH). With a declining real estate career and issues with his new relationship, Ali starts questioning just how committed he’s willing to be. One important meeting with real estate mogul James Johnson (MEKHI PHIFER) could change his life for forever. For the first time it looks like Ali may make a transformation if he can steer clear of obstacles. In the end will love conquer all? Or will broken hearts be all that’s left of their romance?

The Love Section

LUV

Drama, Crime
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Black Cast
Charles S. Dutton, Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Meagan Good, Michael Rainey Jr.
Release Date
January 18, 2013
Synopsis

Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.

LUV
Black Cast
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Skylan Brooks
Release Date
October 11, 2013
Synopsis

Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Black Cast
Danny Glover, Muhammad Ali
Release Date
October 04, 2013
Synopsis

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
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Baggage Claim Trailer
Black Cast
Christina Milian, David E. Talbert, Derek Luke, Djimon Hounsou, Jill Scott, La La Anthony, Lauren London, Paula Patton, Taye Diggs
Release Date
September 27, 2013
Synopsis

Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé.

Baggage Claim
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Black Cast
Bokeem Woodbine, Clifton Powell, David Banner, Denzel Whitaker, Erykah Badu, Giancarlo Esposito, Harry Lennix, Isaiah Washington, Jesse Williams, Jeymes Samuel, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nate Parker, Roger Guenveur Smith, Rosario Dawson
Directed By Black
Jeymes Samuel
Release Date
September 20, 2013
Synopsis

Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.

They Die by Dawn

Blue Caprice

Drama, Mystery, Crime, Thriller
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Black Cast
Cassandra Freeman, Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond
Release Date
September 12, 2013
Synopsis

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Blue Caprice

Half of a Yellow Sun

Drama, Romance
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Black Cast
Anika Noni Rose, Babou Ceesay, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Genevieve Nnaji, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, John Boyega, Susan Wokoma, Thandiwe Newton
Release Date
September 08, 2013
Synopsis

An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.

Half of a Yellow Sun
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Jimi: All Is by My Side Trailer
Black Cast
John Ridley, Ruth Negga, André Benjamin
Release Date
September 07, 2013
Synopsis

A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.

Jimi: All Is by My Side

The Day They Came

Science Fiction
Release Date
September 05, 2013
Synopsis

Science Fiction short from Nigeria.

The Day They Came