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Do the Right Thing (1989)

Summary: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Release Date: July 21, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, CBS, The Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Peacock, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 27,545,445

International: $ 9,750,000

Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)

Summary: Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women.

Release Date: December 18, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Director: Robert Townsend

Writers: Eddie Murphy

, Keenen Ivory Wayans

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Eddie Murphy Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 50,504,655

International: $ 634

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Summary: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Release Date: March 22, 1973

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Melvin Van Peebles

Writer: Melvin Van Peebles

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Yeah

Distributor: Xenon Entertainment Group, Direct Cinema Limited, Image Entertainment, Sun Video Corporation (SVC), Vinegar Syndrome

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Summary: Story of a woman and her three lovers.

Release Date: August 08, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Spike Lee

Writers: Spike Lee

, Zora Neale Hurston

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, The New York State Council of the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Black Filmmakers Foundation

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Island Visual Arts, PolyGram Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 175,000

Domestic: $ 7,137,502

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

Summary: Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.

Release Date: August 03, 1990

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,153,593

Harlem Nights (1989)

Summary: During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Release Date: November 17, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Eddie Murphy

Writer: Eddie Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Eddie Murphy Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, WGN

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 60,864,870

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Summary: A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.

Release Date: December 27, 1991

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Julie Dash

Writer: Julie Dash

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Geechee Girls, American Playhouse, WMG Film

Distributor: Cohen Media Group, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Channel

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,683,422

International: $ 6,301

Sankofa (1993)

Summary: A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and e...

Release Date: May 28, 1993

Genre: Drama

Director: Haile Gerima

Writer: Haile Gerima

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

Production: Channel Four Films, Diproci, Ghana National Commission on Culture, Mypheduh Films, Negod-Gwad Productions, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Mypheduh Films, Netflix

Countries: United States, Ghana, Burkina Faso, United Kingdom, Germany, Ethiopia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,198,984

Posse (1993)

Summary: In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.

Release Date: May 14, 1993

Genre: Western

Director: Mario Van Peebles

Writers: Sy Richardson

, Dario Scardapane

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films

Distributor: Manifesto Film Sales, PolyGram Video, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,289,763

I Like It Like That (1994)

Summary: Money issues and misunderstandings divide a couple who struggle to raise their children in the Bronx.

Release Date: October 14, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Darnell Martin

Writer: Darnell Martin

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Riot of Color, Think Again Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,760,527

4 Little Girls (1997)

Summary: A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.

Release Date: July 09, 1997

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Spike Lee

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 130,146

Hav Plenty (1998)

Summary: Lee Plenty is a flailing, wannabe writer, homeless and apartment-sitting for his friend, the wealthy Havilland Savage, while she is off visiting family. So Lee jumps at the chance to see Havilland, whom he has secretly loved for y...

Release Date: June 19, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Christopher Scott Cherot

Writer: Christopher Scott Cherot

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Complete Casting, Deluxe Toronto, DuArt Film and Video, Edmonds Entertainment, Immaculate Matching, Melange Caterer, My Belizean Goumet, Post Production Playground, Sound One, Wanderlust Pictures Inc., e2 Filmworks

Distributor: Miramax

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000

Domestic: $ 2,284,034

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)

Summary: Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.

Release Date: August 28, 1998

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Gregory Nava

Writer: Tina Andrews

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Rhino Films, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 12,461,773

One Week (2000)

Summary: A soon-to-be groom learns that he may have contracted HIV. Waiting a full seven days for the test results turns out to be the most hectic week of his life.

Release Date: August 03, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Carl Seaton

Writers: Carl Seaton

, Kenny Young

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Griot Filmworks

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 190,441

Lumumba (2000)

Summary: The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.

Release Date: September 27, 2000

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Raoul Peck

Writers: Pascal Bonitzer

, Dan Edelstein

, Raoul Peck

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: JBA Production, Entre Chien et Loup, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Velvet S.A., Arte France Cinéma, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), ZDF/Arte, Canal+, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), Cofimage 10, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, L'Agence de la Francophonie (ACCT)

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Countries: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti

Language: French

Domestic: $ 352,296

Trois (2000)

Summary: Trouble erupts when a happily married couple bring in a third party to spice things up.

Release Date: March 10, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Rob Hardy

Writers: Rob Hardy

, Will Packer

, Will Power

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rainforest Films, Rainforest Productions, TRF Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

Domestic: $ 1,161,843

Antwone Fisher (2002)

Summary: Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.

Release Date: January 10, 2003

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Denzel Washington

Writer: Antwone Fisher

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Mundy Lane Entertainment

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,500,000

Domestic: $ 21,078,145

International: $ 2,289,441

Sparkle (2012)

Summary: In the 1960s, three sisters form a girl group and soon become local sensations with major label interest, but fame becomes a challenge as the close-knit family begins to fall apart.

Release Date: August 17, 2012

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Salim Akil

Writers: Mara Brock Akil

, Joel Schumacher

, Howard Rosenman

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Akil Production Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Stage 6 Films, TDJ Enterprises / New Dimensions Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA), TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,397,469

International: $ 240,331

Losing Ground (1982)

Summary: Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Kathleen Collins

Writer: Kathleen Collins

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG

Distributor: Milestone Film & Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,006

How U Like Me Now (1992)

Summary: An ambitious yuppie, bored with her unmotivated boyfriend, moves out and starts an interracial relationship with a man she meets at a party. When things don't work out she goes home to find her ex has a surprise for her.

Release Date: September 04, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Darryl Roberts

Writer: Darryl Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Avant Garde Films, Woolf Vision Enterprises

Distributor: Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment, Lange and Associates, MCA/Universal Home Video, Screen Media Ventures, Xenon Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Mo' Better Blues (1990)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Sankofa (1993)

Posse (1993)

I Like It Like That (1994)

4 Little Girls (1997)

Hav Plenty (1998)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)

One Week (2000)

Lumumba (2000)

Trois (2000)

Antwone Fisher (2002)

Sparkle (2012)

Losing Ground (1982)

How U Like Me Now (1992)

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