The Color Purple(1985)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.



Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins(2008)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Dr. RJ Stevens is a talk show host who visits his family in the deep south. While there he reunites with his brother Otis, his sister Betty, his cousin/rival Clyde and his childhood love interest Lucinda Allen.



White Man's Burden(1995)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate ...



Which Way Is Up?(1977)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their...



Hell Up in Harlem(1973)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.



Blueberry Hill(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of a 16 year old girl and her repressive relationship with her mother against the backdrop of 1950's America.



The Return of Superfly(1990)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This is a sequel to the movie, Superfly. In it Nathan Purdee is now playing the role of Priest who was played by Ron O'Neal in the previous movie. In it Eddie, Priest's old partner, was ...



Block Party(2022)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers that her once super-sharp Grandma Janice...



Waitin' to Live(2006)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A murdered father returns as a spirit to help his son save his family.



Riverbend(1989)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. ...