Black Stories Movies

Dramas

Belly

A pair of violent men have spiritual awakenings.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (1998)

Juice

Four Harlem teenagers hold up a store and get hooked on the thrill of chasing power and profit.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (1992)

Man on Fire

Denzel Washington is a little girl's bodyguard who metes out brutal punishment to the creeps responsible for her ransom kidnapping.

R • Adventure, Black Stories • Movie (2004)

Soul Men

Estranged backup singers reluctantly travel together to a musical reunion.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2008)

Mr. 3000

Bernie Mac is a riot as a selfish former baseball star who makes an unlikely return to the game to get his 3,000th hit.

PG-13 • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2004)

Baby Boy

Ten years after the release of the seminal "Boyz N the Hood," acclaimed director John Singleton returns to the same inner-city L.A. neighborhood for the story of a misguided 20-year-old African-American man.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2001)

All Eyez on Me

Demetrius Shipp Jr. stars as Tupac Shakur in this stirring bio-pic that chronicles the life of the late rap superstar.

TV14 • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2017)

A Low Down Dirty Shame

Keenen Ivory Wayans plays an L.A. detective who deals with drug lords, dirty cops and dames in this comic caper.

R • Adventure, Black Stories • Movie (1994)

Black Snake Moan

A nymphomaniac is imprisoned and reformed by a kindly blues guitarist.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2006)

Marshall

Thurgood Marshall encounters one of his earliest challenges in 1940.

PG-13 • Black Stories, Thriller • Movie (2017)

Vacation Friends

A couple meets up with another couple while on vacation in Mexico, but their friendship takes an awkward turn when they get back home.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2021)

No Good Deed

When a stranger shows up at the door of a devoted wife and mothe claiming car trouble, she offers her phone to help him. The invitation leads to a fight for survival when the stran invades her home and terrorizes her family.

PG-13 • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2014)

The Longshots

When Curtis Plummer, a down on his luck former high school football star, takes the only job he can find, babysitting his misfit niece, he discovers that she has the skills that once made him a great quarterback.

PG • Sports, Family • Movie (2017)

Mary J. Blige's Family Affair

The love story of Kendra and Ben picks up as Kendra and Ben move out of the city in hopes of finally building a life together. The family must come together to help Kendra and Ben save their relationship and stay true to their real love.

TVPG • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2025)

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940’s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, “Strange Fruit.”

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2021)

Rules of Engagement

Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson star in this riveting saga of a veteran Marine who is made the scapegoat of an ill-fated mission.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2000)

Ali

A pivotal decade in the life of heavyweight boxing legend Muhammad Ali - his rise to the top of the sport, his refusal to go to Vietnam, and his comeback fights with Foreman and Frazier.

R • Boxing, Sports • Movie (2001)

Kidnap

A mother stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.

R • Black Stories, Thriller • Movie (2017)

Chevalier

Inspired by the true story of brilliant violinist-composer Joseph Bologne.

PG-13 • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2023)

Things Never Said

Kalindra tries desperately to find an outlet for her struggling voice and escape from her abusive husband.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2013)

Undisputed

A heavyweight champion boxer is sent to prison, where he must face the penetentiary's reigning champ in the ring. A gritty slugfest.

R • Boxing, Sports • Movie (2002)

Rye Lane

Yas (Vivian Oparah) and Dom (David Jonsson), two 20-somethings both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London-helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

TVMA • International, Black Stories • Movie (2023)

Bruiser

During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a burgeoning mentorship with mysterious drifter Porter.

TVMA • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2023)

Amistad

Steven Spielberg's epic account of a group of slaves whose deadly revolt aboard a Spanish galleon got them charged as murderers.

R • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (1997)

Starkeisha

Inspired by songs from Music For The Movement, a young woman is sent on an intense journey though her own subconscious that challenge her ideas of self-identity.

TVPG • Adventure, Black Stories • Movie (2022)

Origin

While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.

PG-13 • Black Stories, Drama • Movie (2023)

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