The unquestioned Black classics in cinema:
Boyz N Da Hood Menace II Society Poetic Justice Friday Do The Right Thing Love & Basketball How High How Stella Got Her Groove Back Coming To America The Wiz Dolemite Players Club Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood Juice Set It Off Cooley High Lean On Me What’s Love Got To Do With It Class Act Lady Sings The Blues Soul Food Roots Waiting To Exhale
The underrated but actually better than all the previously mentioned Black classics in cinema:
X Fresh Love Jones Crooklyn School Daze Squeeze Brown Sugar South Central Why Did I Get Married Eve’s Bayou The Inkwell Boomerang Higher Learning Jason’s Lyric The Wood The Five Heartbeats Above The Rim House Party 3 Dead Presidents Sugar Hill In Too Deep Sunset Park Akeelah & The Bee New Jersey Drive He Got Game Thin Line Between Love And Hate American Gangster Amistad Django Unchained
The hilariously overrated Black classics in cinema:
Belly Best Man EVERY OTHER TYLER PERRY MOVIE ATL You Got Stomped On The Drumline Vampire In Brooklyn Baps Bad Boys Tales From the Hood Pootie Tang The Barbershop Hollywood Shuffle Precious Get Rich Or Die Tryin Hustle & Flow Notorious Idlewild Life Training Day
Feel free to categorize and add any I missed…
…and I’m blocking anybody that mentions Big Mama’s House and/or Soul Plane
