Let's Pause for some fun! Today let's pick the top five Black Movies of All Time.
Pick your Top Five Black Movies from the list below.
Here is a list of some of the Top Black Movies:
1. Menace II Society
2. Friday
3. House Party
4. Rosewood
5. Juice
6. Dead Presidents
7. Harlem Nights
8. New Jack City
9. Coming to America
10. Eve's Bayou
11. Carmen Jones
12. Lean on Me
13. Malcolm X
14. Soul Food
15. Bommerang
16. Boyz 'N The Hood
17. The Great Debaters
18. Shaft
19. A Raisin in the Sun
20. The Wiz
21. Do the Right Thing
22. Ali
23. What's Love got to do With it
24. Love Jones
25. Ray
26. Glory
27. The Five Heartbeats
28. The Color Purple
29. Jason Lyrics
30. Waiting to Exhale
You may include one write in vote at the end of your list. So you can give 6 instead of 5!
So what are your top picks? And the Huxtable Award goes to...
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34 comments:
No immitation of life or Sounder or Auto of Mrs jane Pittman, or guess who's coming to dinner?
My number one choice didn't even make your list! lol
Where's Hav Plenty? Best Black Romantic Comedy ever and it was a more realistic portrayal of love, in reference to your Black Love blog.
1. Purple Rain (add on)
2. Malcolm X
3. Hav Plenty (not on the list)
4. Bad Boys I & II(add on)
5. Two Can Play that Game (add-on)
6. Love Jones
7. Thin Line Between Love & Hate (add-on)
8.Bamboozled (add-on)
9.Boomerang
10. Imitation of Life (add-on)
**Okay...you did say we can have more than 5 if they weren't included on the list, right?
I agree with Mr.T. Stephens about The Imitation of Life, both the original and updated version and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Both movies are so relevant today. The list seems ok, but their are alot I would love to add!
Oh Darn! I had more than one write in...am I disqualified? =)
Here's my short list
Shaka Zulu
The Last King of Scotland
ROOTS
Queen
The Josephine Baker Story
Mahogany
Lady Sings The Blues
Claudine
CornBread, Earl and Me
Cooley High
I could go on for days!
good list there's no bill cosby on here though. add in the last dragon, i feel that purple rain add even though it's not really a black movie wait a minute you didn't have bad boys 1 and 2 before c'mon now and add in some more blaxploitation films like coffy or superfly. Good list though but I'm very serious about Bad Boys both of them.
Shaka Zulu. I can't believe I forgot this this is a classic should have topped the list. Shika is real for that add. All black movies are classic. . . well almost. Peace.
@ Kirk Franco, Thanx, I still remember seeing this movie for the first time. I was 9 and I was in ahh! The storyline, the cast, the sceneray, everything about this movie had me ready to move to Africa. Of course as a child some of the movie freaked me out, but I understood the message.
I wanted to vote for the following, not in any particluar order.
The Wiz, Cooley High, Eve's Bayou, Jason's Lyric, What's Love Got to Do with it?, The Great Debaters.
I do live both versions of Imitation of Life, and I like Claudine.
i would say...
1.crooklyn
2.malcom x
3.juice
4.mahogany
5.friday
In conjunction to your list, I liked (in no particular order):
Lakawana Blues
Roots
Queen
School Daze
Crooklyn
Malcolm X, Menace to Society, and Coming to America, and Love Jones. I think those four are the best not in any order because they are different genres.
THE WOOD
CROOKLYN
House party, Friday,The Wiz, Whats love got to do with it, and Do the right thing. I'm gonna add Crooklyn. oooh there so many more lol
Did anyone say Sparkle?
what about Harlem Nights?
What about The Best Man?
From the list:
Malcolm X
Friday
Boyz N Da Hood
Love Jones
Do The Right Thing
Other movies:
Nothing But A Man
Imitation of Life
Let's Do It Again
Cooley High
Car Wash
The Wood
Last Dragon
Menace to Sociey
Baby Boy (add on)
Boyz in the Hood
The Harder They Come
Love & Basketball (write in)
Guess Who is Coming to Dinner (write in)
School Daze (write in)
Purple Rain (write in)
Raw (write in)
Richard Pryor Live @ Sunset (write in)
Boyz in the Hood
School Daze
Do the Right Thing
Purple Rain
Imitation of Life
Sparkle
Leon on Me, A Raisin in the Sun, Coming to America, Friday, Eve's Bayou
Not that these are my picks in general, but just from your list.
my bad....bad boys did have black stars and co-stars so i thought it was game.
The Color Purple
Ray
New Jack City
Love Jones
Friday
Glory
Malcolm X
Write in: Two Can Play That Game
I know I had seven from the list, I couldn't leave off any of them!
1.The Color Purple
2.Glory
3.Imitation of Life **not listed
4.Amistad **was it listed?
Boomerang
Coming to America
Ray
Boyz in the Hood
The Color Purple
Jungle Fever
School Daze
New Jack City
1. The Color Purple
2. Boomerang
3. Love Jones
4. Waiting to Exhale
5. Soul Food
Write-in vote: How Stella Got her Groove Back
1. Color Purple
2. Boomerang
3. Coming to America
4. Harlem Nights
5. Crooklyn
I had to do 10... i just couldnt narrow it down that far
5. Juice
7. Harlem Nights
9. Coming to America
12. Lean on Me
23. What's Love got to do With it
24. Love Jones
25. Ray
27. The Five Heartbeats
28. The Color Purple
30. Waiting to Exhale
Write in - The Wood
The Inkwell (write in)
I love Carmen Jones!
love jones
guess who's coming to dinner
Piece of the action
Bad Boys 1-3
Claudine
color purple
what's love got to do with it!
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