AFRICAN AMERICAN LEAD THEMED MOVIES

Coming to America
1988
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to...
Trading Places
1983
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionai...
48 Hrs.
1982
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a...
The Golden Child
1986
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the bal...
Dreamgirls
2006
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along...
Bowfinger
1999
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to ...
Another 48 Hrs.
1990
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the ...
Poetic Justice
1993
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. U...
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled shi...
The Wiz
1978
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return h...
Holy Man
1998
In a world governed by commerce, Ricky and Kate, dedicated employees, find their lives forever changed when they encount...
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
2001
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
A Rage in Harlem
1991
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of th...
The Alchemist Cookbook
2016
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune....