Somebody help a sista out . . .

Please suggest some good black movies, I'm looking for ideas for a play and need some inspiration.The movies don't have to be classic like the Color Purple, but they should be good. Please don't suggest anything stupid like, The Wash or one of them CashMoney/No Limit bootleggin lookin movies.
If you don't know what I mean by good, here are some examples:
Crooklyn,The Color Purple,X,Bamboozled, Eve's Bayou, Slam, Disappearing Acts, Sarafina, Dead Presidents,Coming to America and The Women of Brewster Place,
Stupid Movies: Two Can Play That Game (not funny), I Got the Hook Up . . . you get the point.

I get a lot of ideas from old movies like Cornbread,Earl, and Me.
I'm asking yall because there are some good black movies that I'm not familar with.
I'm sorry if I offended anyone by asking for black movies, but I love my culture, and I love good black movies.
By the way I seen Sankofa in one of the black book stores in my area, has anyone seen it, is it good ?


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is excellent. danny glover and some other veteran black actors i can't think of right now are in it. no white folks. good movie. it's what soul food SHOULD have been. please check it out.



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I was going to suggest that.

I think that would make a very good play.

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I think that love and basketball is a good black movie. It's not nasty or anything and it's not talking about anyone killin any body else.

And Soul food is a good movie too!

But if we label this just picture what we might lose...that unexpected kiss that whole feeling that brought me to you

Daughters of the dust. it's an independant film by the same lady that did Eve's bayou.
Ghost Dog was pretty good too, with forrest whittaker and soundtrack by RZA.





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Daughters of the Dust was directed by Julie Dash. More info can be found on http://geechee.tv/vidtrial.html

Eve's Bayou was by Kasi Lemmons, who also directed The Caveman's Valentine.

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Chameleon Street is really good...but I didn't remember the end being fucked up until I raved about it with my girl...then...
just go and rent it.

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slightly underrated flick
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gosh there are so many & i'm drawin blanks



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I also suggest Ghost Dog and the sound track is just as good. School Dayz one of my favs...I wonder if the got that out on DVD.
Love and Basketball was hot.
Brown Suga looks like its gonna be good

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Only saw this once... I caught it one night flicking through channels on the dish. My aunt walk in the livingroom and says.. Oh man you wathing this, she shakes her head smiles and her knowing how much of a water head I am (I cried the first time I saw Mufasa die in the lion king) says your gonna cry... and she was right I cried like a damn baby... This was such a great movie

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damn good movie.

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best I've seen in a while. Its the most under-hyped movie out right now.

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there was another post that said it's so bad you can see the mic hanging right there on the screen half the time, the acting sucks, and that the story made no sense.

silly (women)....arabesque novels are for kids

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Fresh- AMAZING incredibly slept on film with Samuel L. Jackson (in a bit part)

Clockers- in my opinion better than Boyz n tha Hood or Menace 2 society, and one of Spike's best films period.

The Wood- funny as hell. Brings me back to my jr. high days.

Mississippi Masala- more of an indian (specifically Gujuratis "transplanted" to Africa and then immigrated to Mississippi)slanted film, but deals with race relations between indians, blacks, and whites. Great film, with a really good Denzel Washington performance.

"I'll never turn back cuz that's the way I gotta live"
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Caveman Valentine's
Finding Forester

What about "Love Jones"????

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A independent movie called "One Week".

Robert Townsend was promoting this movie. I saw this movie and it really open up my eyes.

My spirit is my guide and direction through life daily course

by Charles Burnett (same guy who did To Sleep With Anger) and going waaay back Within Our Gates by Oscar Micheaux.

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a better movie than Sankofa. And Coming To America would NOT qualify as a "Good Black Movie", because it played to a lot of stereotypes about Africans and African-Americans, which some may or may not find funny.

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seent it in the movies......

incredible experience.....it was the last run in NY so they let us stay to see it twice.....

plus commentary by one of the actors.....who happened to be there....

i'm not Black (i'm Filipino)... but i do enjoy films about fellow minorities...

i second the votes on the films already mentioned. and here are a few more that i liked:
- catfish in black bean sauce (bout a Black family that adopts a couple of Vietnamese refugees)
- to sir, with love (it's old..but can't go wrong with sidney poitier!)
- cry freedom (based on the life of steve biko)

that's all i can think of for now...
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love jones
purple rain
five heartbeats
jasons lyric
sparkle


thats all I can think of right now...

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If they gone hate just let em hate.. just watch your money pile up (c) 50 cent

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no just kidding.

i'm sure you've seen em but they weren't listed yet:
-Do The Right Thing
-Malcolm X

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Sparkle

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

that was my movie as a kid.... i can still hear the kid screamin' "THEY KILLED CORNBREAD!!!!!!"

Also check out A Hero Aint' Nothin' But A Sandwich....

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this was one of my fav's right here... early larry fishburn

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Excellent movie

by michael schultz, the same cat who directed car wash. also:

come back charleston blue
lady sings the blues
jo jo dancer, your life is calling
bingo long & the traveling all-stars
cotton comes to harlem
the richard pryor race car flick, so-starring pam grier (i can't think of the name)
there's a few more. i just can't think of them at the moment.

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what i'm digging right now:

chocolate butterfly - self-titled
laura jane - welcome to my planet boo
me & this japanese guy - waiting for the miracle
wade3 - dreams
tracey amos - who are we really?

the talent amassed for that production........

it stars Kerry Washington and yes, Stocky Fingerz is in it but don't let that deter you.

f r o m m e t o y o u

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for musicals you cant beat:

the wiz,
school daze
stormy weather

general drama/comedy:

all of the sidney poitier/bill cosby movies (uptown saturday night, any which way but looses, etc.)

harlem nights
raw
live on sunset strip

oddly enough...Trippin with "Bud" was suprisingly good. good upper middle class, highschool immature sex romp

house party

will think of more later

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Old School:
Bingo Longs' Travelling All Stars And Motor Kings
Cooley High


Almost Old School:
Harlem Nights
Boomerang
Devil In A Blue Dress
Do The Right Thing
A Soldiers' Story
What's Love Got To Do With It


Honorable Mention:
Purple Rain
The Hurricane
Uptown Saturday Night
A Rage In Harlem
Hoodlum


Personal Favorite:
Love Jones (...but DAMN Brown Sugar was good)

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