Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



The Express(2008)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.



The Inspection(2022)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.



The Inheritance(2020)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family.



Frankie & Alice(2010)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.



Alice(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.



Romper Stomper(1992)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.



Brother to Brother(2004)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.



Made in America(1993)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.



The Great Race(1965)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.



Neo Ned(2005)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his ...



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



Bopha!(1993)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 42

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist ...



Hamburger Hill(1987)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.



Whiteboyz(1999)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 34

In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and ...



Goodbye Bafana(2007)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.



Jaat(2025)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 10

After a ruffian accidentally ruins his meal, a traveler retorts violently and demands an apology, unintentionally finding himself in a web of violence, crime and corruption spun by a feared criminal.



Corrina, Corrina(1994)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A true testament to the beauty of love despite race, creed, or religion.



Wildcats(1986)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.



My Family(1995)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 27

This epic film traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies and triumphs. Jose and Maria, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face...




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