What are Your Favorite Black Movies?


Bartram

Bartram

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What black-oriented movies are a must-have in your DVD/VHS collection? Some of the tops on my list are:

  • School Daze (alltime classic)
  • How I Spent My Summer Vacation (great low budget)
  • The Brothers (current favorite, great cast)
  • The Best Man (previous current favorite)
  • How to be a Player (vintage Bill Bellamy)
  • Booty Call (Vivica Fox and whats-her-name, AMN-DEY.)
  • Soul Food (Vanessa, hubbie & cousin,, just so many great
    story lines in this one.)
  • Rosewood (tell me something I don't know.)
  • She's Gotta Have It (ventage Spike Lee,, this was all the rage
    my frosh year at Skegee! :eek: )
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (90% of board clueless.)
  • A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (classic cast)
  • Black Spring Break (low budget but interesting insight)
  • Set it Off (interesting to see characters in roles)
  • New Jack City (vintage Ice Tee and Wesley Snipes)
  • Tuskegee Airmen (or coarse)
  • Glory (which I got to get)
  • Love Jones (,, need to watch again)
  • South Central (followed kinda)
  • Poetic Justice (didn't really follow)
  • Mississippi Masala (this was a weird movie, but the mixing of
    the African and Indian race was unique,, and
    apparantly not popular. haven't seen such
    since. thoroughly enjoyed this one though.)
 
Educational Black Movies

So that you will not forget and you can pass the message. Add these movies to your dvd collection:

Birth of a Nation
Panther
Boycott
Bamboozled and
Classified X
 

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Love Jones

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

The Brothers

The Wood

SoulFood

Waiting to Exhale

Set it Off

South Central

Boyz 'n the Hood

X
 
A Soldier Story is a movie you need to add to your cd collection.

I also like many of the ones listed already.
 
JUICE & Higher Learning and Menace 2 Society.......

Gots to be 3 of my all time favorites.......;)
 
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....And Many More...
 
if so, i missed it!

but Color Purple?:redhot: this has got to be my most HATED black movie of all times!:mad:

I do see many others I don't have that I must get!:) Thanks!
 
I can't forget the Classics

From the Black Cinema Vault

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So Red the Rose
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This film from1935 was set during Reconstruction, this film deals with the conflict between two former slaves, the stately house servant (Daniel Haynes), and the hard-eyed field hand (Clarence Muse).

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For more information on black film history:
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/black/index.html
 
Add these to your lists (These are in no particular order)....

  • The Mack
  • SuperFly
  • Foxy Brown
  • Dolemite
  • Disappearing Acts
  • Let's Do it Again
  • Kings of Comedy
 
I like the old ones from the 70's

Lets do it again
Bingo Long All-Stars
Shaft
Super Fly
Car Wash

The others I liked

Boyz in the Hood
Friday
Menace to Society
Poetic Justice
The Wood (man that was us growing up just a couple of miles away):)
I can't wait until the day is done
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Mandingo and The Spook Who Sat By the Door
are two favorites of mine.
Pisses me off every time I watch them.:redhot:
 
Wealth of Info! What about black sitcoms?

I actually read but never seen The Spook That Sat by the Door.:)

Let's do it Again is great. I must get that one. There is so many classics I forgot about! Did anyone mention Shaft? I saw one just last night with the guy from A Different World and that other old dude from the Jamie Fox Show. That is a classic.:)

I would like to have the sitcoms on DVD also like:
Good Times
What's Happening
The White Shadow
The Jeffersons
I got the Sanford & Son series
Baby I'm Back
,,, and of coarse all the ones from the 90s like,,,
N.Y. UNDERCOVER (i was devastated when they took this show off the air.:redhot: THAT WAS MY SHOW! The intro music was bout my favorite part of the show!:D )
Rock
A Different World
Living Single
The Cosbys (although I got a little sick of the "messages")
The one with LL Cool J
The Steve Harvey Show
The Jamie Fox Show (borderline)
,, et al that I missed,,, what are some other black sitcoms?
 
I know I've said this time and time again.....
but Bartram asked so...

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A Different World
The above is my favorite, hands down.
This show got me to college....I managed to get
myself to Grad school. ;)

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I can't say enough about this one.....
call it to preachy if you want, but it influennced
a whole generation of black professionals, myself
included. I think it can be traced to the Medical
and Legal ambitions of the great bulk of black
"20 somethings" in those fields. Also it showed
a side of black life that television had been reluctant
to show prior to Cosby.

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The Jeffersons
One of the best. "Lionel"-Mike Evans is the
co-creator of "Good Times". "Helen"-Roxie Roker
(who died in '98) was the mother of my favorite
rocker, Lenny Kravitz.

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Good Times
Ain't we glad we had them, "Good Times"?
Every familiar face in film in the 70's came through
this show. This show introduced my favorite female
artist, Janet Jackson.

Other notables:
Living Single- 1st black sitcom to show Gen X-Professionals.
New York Undercover-If only for the musical guest.
City of Angels Had great writers, and a very talented
cast, but was never given a chance to succeed.
I wrote the network when it was cancelled.
 
1. Buck and the Preacher
2. A Soldier Story
3. Cooley High
4. Let's Do It Again
5. The Best Man
6. Harlem Nights
7. The Mack
8. Car Wash
9. Love & Basketball
10. A Piece of the Action
11. Boomerang
12. Coming to America
13. Boyz in the Hood
14. Cornbread, Earl, and Me
15. Carmen Jones

Favorite Movies With Black Stars

1. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
2. What's Love Got To Do With It
3. Lillies of the Field
4. Ragtime
5. Glory
6. In the Heat of the Night
7. Bad Company
8. Stir Crazy
9. The Color Purple
10. The Nephew
11. Finding Forrester
12. Beverly Hills Cop
13. Deep Cover
14. Crimson Tide
15. Cry Freedom
 
Re: Whatever happened to "Rudy Huckstable"?

Originally posted by Bartram
Didn't she go to some HBCU? :confused:
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I think she either went to Spelman or Morris Brown.....
I saw her on a where are they now special.....she a straight Dime now.
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But the reason I really posted was to make a point !!! I pretty much liked every movie that was listed in this thread. I wanna say which Black Movie was the worst in the history of ourselves as a people....this movie was pure Garbage.:mad:
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Belly wasn't the worse. You can pick either one of these from the Diesel's Hall of Shame

1. Blankman
2. Kingdom Come
3. Baby Boy
4. Black Spring Break
5. Meteor-Man
6. Poetic Justice
 
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