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This is a list of hood films. These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities. This list also includes comparably economically disenfranchised and crime adjacent communities in other countries such as ...
The drama film is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. [22] [23] [27] [24] Monsters and Men: January 19, 2018: September 28, 2018: The drama film features a black man in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn who catches on video the wrongful shooting by a white police officer and who faces a dilemma about releasing the video or ...
The following is a list of African films. It is arranged alphabetically by country of origin. Algeria. Angola Benin. Botswana. Year Title Director Genre Notes ...
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, post-American Civil War African immigrants and descendants of "free people of color" do not self-identify as African American (though some people of Caribbean, Central American, and South American nations self-identify as African-American).
The Best Man Holiday; The Best Man (1999 film) Beverly Hills Cop III; Beware (film) Big George Foreman; Big Momma's House; Big Momma's House 2; Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son; Biker Boyz; Black Eye (film) Black Fiddlers; Black Film Archive; The Black Godfather (2019 film) Black Gunn; Black Is King; Black Knight (film) Black Lolita; The Black ...
The 1970s Black variant sought to tell Black stories with Black actors to Black audiences, but they were usually not produced by African Americans. As Junius Griffin, the president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP , wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 1972: "At present, Black movies are a 'rip off' enriching major white film producers and a ...
Black Girl (1972 film) Black Like Me (film) Black or White (film) Blackbird (2014 film) Body and Soul (1981 film) Bolden; Bread and Roses (2000 film) Breaking (film) Bright Road; Brother John (film) Brother to Brother (film) Buffalo Soldiers (1997 film) Bull (2019 film) Burning Cane; The Butler
Hood film is a 1990s film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African American or Hispanic American culture. John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, F. Gary Gray, Hughes Brothers, and Spike Lee are all directors who have created work typically classified as part of this genre. [1]