2010's Black Movies: More Than 400 Films List

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Samba

Comedy, Drama
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Black Cast
Isaka Sawadogo, Liya Kebede, Omar Sy, Youngar Fall
Release Date
October 15, 2014
Synopsis

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

Samba

I Am Ali

Documentary
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Black Cast
George Foreman, Jim Brown, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali
Release Date
October 10, 2014
Synopsis

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.

I Am Ali

Addicted

Drama, Thriller
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Black Cast
Bille Woodruff, Boris Kodjoe, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Kat Graham, Maria Howell
Release Date
October 10, 2014
Synopsis

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

Addicted

October 1st

Thriller
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Release Date
October 01, 2014
Synopsis

Its September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, DAN WAZIRI, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed. Set against the backdrop of the national celebratory mood of the impending independence, Waziri is pulled into a game of cat and mouse as he and the killer try to outwit each other...

October 1st

The Equalizer

Action, Crime, Thriller
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Black Cast
Denzel Washington
Directed By Black
Antoine Fuqua
Release Date
September 24, 2014
Synopsis

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

The Equalizer

Naz & Maalik

Comedy, Drama
Black Cast
Ashleigh Awusie, Curtiss Cook Jr., Kerwin Johnson Jr.
Release Date
March 14, 2015
Synopsis

Two closeted Muslim teens hawk goods across Brooklyn and struggle to come clean about their sexuality, as their secretive behavior leads them unknowingly into the cross-hairs of the War on Terror.

Naz & Maalik
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The Man with the Iron Fists 2 Trailer
Black Cast
RZA
Release Date
March 10, 2015
Synopsis

When a stranger, Thaddeus, is found badly wounded near the village, miner Li Kung and his wife Ah Ni offer him refuge. As he heals, he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho, his nefarious Beetle Clan and the terrifying Lord Pi.

The Man with the Iron Fists 2

Focus

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime
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Black Cast
Will Smith
Release Date
February 25, 2015
Synopsis

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

Focus

The Department

Drama, Action
Release Date
January 30, 2015
Synopsis

A former industrial saboteur is lured back by her corporate employer for one last job, but her husband disapproves and may need to take action.

The Department
Black Cast
Stanley Nelson
Release Date
January 23, 2015
Synopsis

The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. An essential history, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, is a vibrant, human, living and breathing chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Black Cast
Dick Gregory, Nina Simone
Release Date
January 22, 2015
Synopsis

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

What Happened, Miss Simone?
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Where Children Play Trailer
Black Cast
Brian J. White, Edwina Findley Dickerson, Kylee Russell, Leon, Macy Gray, Teyonah Parris
Release Date
January 01, 2015
Synopsis

A young woman is forced to nurse the father who abused her after her mother's death.

Where Children Play

Selma

Drama, History
Black Cast
Carmen Ejogo, Colman Domingo, Common, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Oyelowo, E. Roger Mitchell, Lakeith Stanfield, Lorraine Toussaint, Niecy Nash, Oprah Winfrey, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Stephan James, Tessa Thompson, André Holland, Wendell Pierce
Directed By Black
Ava DuVernay
Release Date
December 25, 2014
Synopsis

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

Selma

Run

Drama, Thriller
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Black Cast
Isaach De Bankolé, Philippe Lacôte
Release Date
December 17, 2014
Synopsis

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Every time, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.

Run

Top Five

Comedy, Drama
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Black Cast
Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Rock, Gabrielle Union, Hayley Marie Norman, J.B. Smoove, Kevin Hart, Romany Malco, Rosario Dawson
Release Date
December 12, 2014
Synopsis

A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.

Top Five
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Nightingale Trailer
Black Cast
David Oyelowo
Release Date
August 16, 2015
Synopsis

A dangerously unstable man addresses the unseen followers of his video log about his obsession with an old army buddy.

Nightingale
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Straight Outta Compton Trailer
Black Cast
Carra Patterson, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Marlon Yates Jr., Neil Brown Jr., O'Shea Jackson Jr., R. Marcos Taylor, Aldis Hodge, Alexandra Shipp, Keith Powers
Directed By Black
F. Gary Gray
Release Date
August 13, 2015
Synopsis

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

Straight Outta Compton

Lila & Eve

Drama, Thriller
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Black Cast
Charles Stone III, Chris Chalk, Diarra Kilpatrick, Julius Tennon, Aml Ameen, Andre Royo, Viola Davis, Yolonda Ross
Release Date
July 31, 2015
Synopsis

Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.

Lila & Eve

Dope

Comedy, Drama, Crime
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Black Cast
Chanel Iman, Forest Whitaker, Kiersey Clemons, Quincy Brown, Rakim Mayers, Rick Famuyiwa, Rick Fox, Shameik Moore, Zoë Kravitz
Release Date
June 19, 2015
Synopsis

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Dope
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A Girl Like Grace Trailer
Black Cast
Garcelle Beauvais, Meagan Good, Paige Hurd, Raven-Symoné, Ryan Destiny
Release Date
June 12, 2015
Synopsis

Raised by a single mother, a bullied 17 year-old girl seeks guidance from her best friend and the girl's older sister.

A Girl Like Grace