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1. Io Capitano (2023)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo, Hichem Yacoubi
Votes: 10,223
2. Barbershop (2002)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson
Votes: 33,557 | Gross: $75.78M
3. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
R | 107 min | Comedy
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 66,288 | Gross: $12.78M
4. Happy End (2017)
R | 107 min | Drama
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin
Votes: 16,944 | Gross: $0.30M
5. Riches (2022)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama
Stephen Richards has built a cosmetics empire, but when he suffers a stroke, his family's secrets and lies rise to the surface and the future of his multi-million-pound company is at stake.
Stars: Deborah Ayorinde, Sarah Niles, CJ Beckford, Adeyinka Akinrinade
Votes: 1,895
6. Play (I) (2011)
118 min | Drama
An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Anas Abdirahman, Sebastian Blyckert, Yannick Diakité, Sebastian Hegmar
Votes: 6,555
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
183 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Welket Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Annabelle Mandeng
Votes: 3,890
8. Amin (2018)
91 min | Drama
NIne years ago, Amin came from Senegal to work in France, leaving his wife Aisha and their three children behind. In France, there is nothing but work for him, no friends but the people he lives with at his workers' home.
Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Moustapha Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Mareme N'Diaye, Noureddine Benallouche
Votes: 326
9. Body Electric (2017)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama
The summer is coming and Elias has been dreaming of the sea a lot. In the factory where he works, his responsibilities increase as the holiday season approaches. After one more night ... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Caetano | Stars: Kelner Macêdo, Lucas Andrade, Welket Bungué, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti
Votes: 910
10. Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
The true story of the murder of Damilola Taylor--a 10-year-old Nigerian boy who lived in Peckham, London--and the subsequent trial.
Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: Wunmi Mosaku, John Hollingworth, Naomi Ackie, Ben Bailey Smith
Votes: 246
11. Farewell Amor (2020)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.
Director: Ekwa Msangi | Stars: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee
Votes: 1,549
12. A Ciambra (2017)
Unrated | 118 min | Crime, Drama
In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Carpignano | Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato
Votes: 2,941 | Gross: $0.03M
13. To Each, Her Own (2018)
TV-MA | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Simone plans to inform her conservative Jewish family that she's a lesbian, but as she proceeds with coming out she finds herself attracted to a man.
Director: Myriam Aziza | Stars: Sarah Stern, Jean-Christophe Folly, Julia Piaton, Catherine Jacob
Votes: 1,948
14. Grow Your Own (2007)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy
An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Benedict Wong, Eddie Marsan, Omid Djalili, Alan Williams
Votes: 712
15. African Time (2017– )
Comedy
Stars: Dani Dare, Abdulazeem Dulo Harris, Niki Guluchi, Cottrell Guidry
Votes: 11
16. A Season in France (2017)
100 min | Drama
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys, Ibrahim Burama Darboe
Votes: 599
17. Bianco e nero (2008)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An italian engineer and a beautiful black woman both married had an affair turning his life's into a hard forbidden romance.
Director: Cristina Comencini | Stars: Fabio Volo, Ambra Angiolini, Aïssa Maïga, Eriq Ebouaney
Votes: 630
18. Gone Too Far (2013)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
GONE TOO FAR follows two estranged teenage brothers over the course of a single day as they meet for the first time, and struggle to accept each other for who they are. Yemi can't wait for ... See full summary »
Director: Destiny Ekaragha | Stars: Kevin Garry, Tosin Cole, Malachi Kirby, Adelayo Adedayo
Votes: 425
19. Sixteen (I) (2013)
80 min | Thriller
An African former child soldier now living in London is forced to confront his violent past.
Director: Rob Brown | Stars: Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Rachael Stirling, Rosie Day, Fady Elsayed
Votes: 238
20. För kärleken (2010)
97 min | Drama
Very different lives, becomes interweaved during what seems like an ordinary day. Franzis Namazi (Danny Glover) is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden. He is about to give up on... See full summary »
Director: Osmond Karim | Stars: Mina Azarian, Evamaria Björk, Cecilia Borssén, Tobias Borvin
Votes: 508
21. Of Sentimental Value (2016)
76 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Siberia Tonka's dream of becoming the next bestselling, globally celebrated fantasy author in America, like the iconic, Princess of Suburbia, is quickly eroding away.
Director: Jean Senelier | Stars: Patience Adegoke, Femi Aweda, Patsha Bay, Soleil Diva
22. Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera (2008)
94 min | Comedy
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Félicité Wouassi, Claude Rich, Elizabeth Oppong, Ralph Amoussou
Votes: 125
23. Impasse (II) (2009)
5 min | Short, Drama
Without words, we're left to consider whether love and attraction can break through the impasse of human intolerance.
Director: Bram Schouw | Stars: Mutaleni Nadimi, Sieger Sloot
Votes: 174
24. Aïssa (2014)
8 min | Short, Drama
Aissa is Congolese and is presently residing illegally on French territory. She claims to be a minor however the authorities believe she is over 18. In order to establish whether or not she... See full summary »
Director: Clément Tréhin-Lalanne | Stars: Manda Touré, Bernard Campan
Votes: 149
25.
Medical Investigation (2004–2005)
Episode:
Alienation
(2004)
Drama, Mystery
Six women in a suburb to Philadelphia get a deadly disease and later some Africans that live in North Philadelphia are hit by similar, but nevertheless different symptoms.
Director: Michael Fresco | Stars: Neal McDonough, Kelli Williams, Christopher Gorham, Anna Belknap
Votes: 15
26.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Teliko
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mulder believes a creature from an African folktale may be responsible for the disappearance of several black men in the Philadelphia area.
Director: Jim Charleston | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Carl Lumbly
Votes: 3,900
27.
Lupin (2021– )
Episode:
Chapter 1
(2021)
TV-MA | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Years after a tragic injustice involving his father, Assane seeks to settle a score, and a debt, by stealing a diamond necklace. However, the heist takes an unexpected turn.
Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Clotilde Hesme, Nicole Garcia
Votes: 4,402
28.
Sahara with Michael Palin (2002– )
Episode:
Dire Straits
(2002)
60 min | Documentary
He travels Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, coastal Algeria, Morocco, then Gibraltar: In-Guezzam (border) and Hassi Messauoud (Oil town) in Algeria; Tobruk, Benghazi, and the ruins of Apollonia (... See full summary »
Directors: John-Paul Davidson, Roger Mills
Votes: 27
29.
New Amsterdam (2018–2023)
Episode:
In a Strange Land
(2021)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama
Max takes drastic measures to help several undocumented immigrants.
Director: Michael Slovis | Stars: Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Freema Agyeman, Jocko Sims
Votes: 438
30.
EWTN Bookmark (1998– )
Episode:
Scaling the Heights
(2012)
27 min | Family, Talk-Show
Doug Keck welcomes Fr. Maurice Nkem Emelu, author of Scaling the Heights: If Anyone Can You Can, an encouraging memoir of persevering through hardships. Fr. Emelu also speaks of his life in... See full summary »
Directors: Mike Holmes, Fred Williams | Stars: Doug Keck, Maurice Nkem Emelu