PASSING FOR WHITE THEMED MOVIES

Imitation of Life
1959
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who ...
The Human Stain
2003
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his n...
Pinky
1949
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nur...
Passing
2021
In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood ...
Shadows
1960
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Le...
Lost Boundaries
1949
A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the mo...
Sapphire
1959
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As th...
Imitation of Life
1934
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a suc...
Band of Angels
1957
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plan...
The Black Klansman
1966
After his daughter is killed by the KKK, a black man seeks revenge by passing as white and becoming a Klansman.
Illusions
1982
A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions. The short film depicts the life of an Afr...