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1. Pinky (1949)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.
Directors: Elia Kazan, John Ford | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan
Votes: 3,415 | Gross: $4.20M
2. Mixing Nia (1998)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Nia is a successful copy writer at ad agency, and she leads white yuppie life (though her mother is black). She quits the agency when she is ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ... See full summary »
Director: Alison Swan | Stars: Karyn Parsons, Isaiah Washington, Eric Thal, Diego Serrano
Votes: 201
3. The Scar of Shame (1929)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses her. However, once he "... See full summary »
Director: Frank Peregini | Stars: Harry Henderson, Norman Johnstone, Ann Kennedy, Lucia Lynn Moses
Votes: 448
4. I Passed for White (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A young girl meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Sonya Wilde, James Franciscus, Patricia Michon, Elizabeth Council
Votes: 320
5. Shadows (1958)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray
Votes: 12,544
6. Imitation of Life (1959)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
Votes: 18,206 | Gross: $13.99M
7. Imitation of Life (1934)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks
Votes: 5,641
8. Lasting Legacy: An Imitation of Life (2008 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Academy award nominee Juanita Moore and respected historians reflect upon the making of the films and examine the enduring themes of race, family and identity in this retrospective documentary.
Stars: Donald Bogle, Drew Casper, Avery Clayton, Jessica Funches
Votes: 11
9. Lost Boundaries (1949)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
This story is a true account of the lives of Scott and Marsha Carter. Having graduated from medical school, Scott Carter, a fair-skinned African American, marries Marsha Mitchell and moves ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas Rubes, Robert A. Dunn
Votes: 496
10. My Baby Is Black! (1961)
75 min | Drama
Daniel and Françoise are an interracial couple. When Daniel is introduced to Françoise's conservative family, their love for each other is soon tested as tensions rise between the two races.
Director: Claude Bernard-Aubert | Stars: Gordon Heath, Françoise Giret, Aram Stephan, Mag-Avril
Votes: 115
11. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,321 | Gross: $10.00M
12. Show Boat (1936)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson
Votes: 3,688
13. Kings Go Forth (1958)
Approved | 109 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana
Votes: 1,808
14. Within Our Gates (1920)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault
Votes: 3,620
15. God's Step Children (1938)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A young light-skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Jacqueline Lewis, Ethel Moses, Alice B. Russell, Trixie Smith
Votes: 114
16. The Human Stain (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise
Votes: 32,236 | Gross: $5.38M
17. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Black war hero is hired to find a mysterious woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal in 1948 Los Angeles.
Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle
Votes: 24,129 | Gross: $16.03M
18. A Soldier's Story (1984)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier
Votes: 11,381 | Gross: $21.82M
19. Purple Rain (1984)
R | 111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
Director: Albert Magnoli | Stars: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos
Votes: 23,792 | Gross: $68.39M
20. The Black Klansman (1966)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Richard Gilden, Rima Kutner, Harry Lovejoy, Max Julien
Votes: 539
21. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,622
22. Show Boat (1951)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Family, Musical
The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown
Votes: 5,380
23. Angelo (1950)
95 min | Drama
An Italian man released from prison has trouble relating to the orphaned son from his late wife's relationship with a black G.I.
Director: Francesco De Robertis | Stars: Angelo Maggio, Renato Baldini, Bianca Doria, Jole Fierro
Votes: 15
24. The Betrayal (1948)
183 min | Drama
Martin Eden is a successful African-American farmer in South Dakota. He is in love with Deborah Stewart, but he believes that she is white and that she would not be interested in him. He is unaware that Deborah also loves him.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William Byrd, Leroy Collins, Verlie Cowan, Frances De Young
Votes: 18
25. Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
48 min | Drama
John Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Lucille Lewis, Walter Fleming, Laura Bowman, Lawrence Chenault
Votes: 180
26. The House Behind the Cedars (1927)
Drama
Rena ( Shingzie Howard ), a beautiful mulatto woman, who passes as white, receives a proposal from an aristocratic white millionaire who has fallen in love with her. Rena accepts without ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Shingzie Howard, Andrew Bishop, Lawrence Chenault, Alma Sewell
27. The Virgin of Seminole (1923)
Drama, Western
A young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe. The young man later purchases a... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Louise Borden, William Fountaine, Shingzie Howard
28. The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
TV-PG | 54 min | Drama, Romance
Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault, Mattie Wilkes
Votes: 571
29. Queen (1993)
TV-14 | 282 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Biracial daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the ... See full summary »
Stars: Ann-Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Ossie Davis
Votes: 1,712
30. Isaura: Slave Girl (1976–1977)
26 min | Drama, History, Romance
The difficulties faced by a gentle-hearted young white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial period.
Stars: Rubens de Falco, Lucélia Santos, Gilberto Martinho, Markus Konká
Votes: 736
31. The Slave Isaura (2004–2005)
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, History, Romance
The difficulties faced by a sweet-hearted white slave in the Brazilian Colonial period, targeted by the obsession of her lord.
Stars: Bianca Rinaldi, Micael Borges, Mayara Magri, Leopoldo Pacheco
Votes: 221
32.
Angel (1999–2004)
Episode:
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
(2000)
Unrated | 44 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
In the 1950s, Angel aids a woman hiding from her past in a hotel with a long history of death and mayhem. In the present, Angel hunts a demon.
Director: David Semel | Stars: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, J. August Richards
Votes: 2,255
33. Multi-Facial (1995)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A short film about the problems that accompany an actor as he auditions, due to his multi-ethnic appearance.
Director: Vin Diesel | Stars: Vin Diesel, Lewis Steidl, Cara Gaffen, Phillip Jones
Votes: 1,699
34. Belle (2013)
PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century England.
Director: Amma Asante | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 33,114 | Gross: $10.73M
35. The Debt (1912)
Short, Drama
Unaware that they are related, children born to the octoroon (1/16th Black) mistress and a white wife of a white man meet and fall in love.
Stars: Jack Hopkins, Louise Vale
36. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people with whom he interacts.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Paula Kelly
Votes: 606
37.
The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode:
Jenny's Low
(1975)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy
Jenny gives her brother an ice-cold reception when he suddenly appears after a two-year absence. George is the only one who understands Jenny's strange behavior and, unfortunately, he makes no bones about saying so.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Mike Evans, Roxie Roker
Votes: 147
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