Best Black Struggle movies

Actors : Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Chris Menges,

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Actors : J.A. Preston, Paula Kelly, Lawrence Cook, Janet League,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Actors : Bill Gunn, Seret Scott, Billie Allen, Duane Jones,
Directors : Kathleen Collins,

A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on...

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Prunella Gee, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.

Actors : Rossif Sutherland, Flex Alexander, Greg Bryk, Danny Glover,
Directors : Clement Virgo,

Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home ...

Actors : Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, J.T. Walsh, Charles Lane,
Directors : Charles Lane,

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

Actors : Paula Kelly, Leon, Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad,
Directors : Tim Reid,

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Ray Milland,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Corey Haim, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris,
Directors : Rick King,

Set in an unspecified time in the future, USA has declined and become a country of violence and racial prejudice. Griffin earns his living delivering pizzas while he tries to take care of ...

Actors : Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of ...

Actors : Eriq La Salle, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kasi Lemmons, Ving Rhames,
Directors : David C. Johnson,

Political satire about an underground militant group that kidnaps African-Americans who have sold out their race. The story follows as the group led Curtis-Hall and Rhames kidnaps an ...

Actors : Jean-Pascal Zadi, Tonton Marcel, Fary, Caroline Anglade,

A politically incorrect comedy, about the role of black people in French society.

Actors : Prem Singh, Marshall Manesh, Mickey Rourke, Janel Parrish,
Directors : Alister Grierson,

A practicing Sikh is banned by the boxing commission for refusing to back down from his religious beliefs. Through racial profiling and stereotypical threats, he does what any strong American would do, fight back.

Actors : Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips ...

Actors : Karen Issac, Thomas Staten, Suzzanne Douglas, Jakobi Alvin,
Directors : Rel Dowdell,

An epic tale about a supremely intelligent young African-American male who rises from the ferocious and oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to being a shining star in the lucrative ...

Actors : Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack, Tony Randall,
Directors : Michael Curtiz,

Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.

Actors : Cleavon Little, Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Brenda Sykes, Susan Clark, James Garner,

In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.

Actors : Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...