Please Give (2010)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Summary: Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.

Release Date: December 14, 2018

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation

Directors: Bob Persichetti

, Peter Ramsey

, Rodney Rothman

Writers: Phil Lord

, Rodney Rothman

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Avi Arad Productions, Lord Miller, Pascal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Amazon Prime Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney+

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Spider-Man

Movie budget: $ 90,000,000

Domestic: $ 190,241,310

International: $ 203,361,125

Moonlight (2016)

Summary: A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.

Release Date: November 18, 2016

Genre: Drama

Director: Barry Jenkins

Writers: Barry Jenkins

, Tarell Alvin McCraney

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: A24, PASTEL, Plan B Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,854,932

International: $ 37,317,679

Carmen Jones (1954)

Summary: Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.

Release Date: October 28, 1954

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Otto Preminger

Writers: Oscar Hammerstein II

, Harry Kleiner

, Prosper Mérimée

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Otto Preminger Films

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, 20th Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 750,000

Atlanta (2016)

Summary: Earn and his cousin, Alfred, try to make their way in the world through Atlanta's rap scene. Along the way they come face-to-face with social and economic issues touching on race, relationships, poverty, status and parenthood.

Release Date: September 06, 2016

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: FX Productions, MGMT Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Summary: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Release Date: July 21, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: Spike Lee

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, CBS, The Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Peacock, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 27,545,445

International: $ 9,750,000

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Summary: Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

Release Date: July 05, 2012

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Benh Zeitlin

Writers: Lucy Alibar

, Benh Zeitlin

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cinereach, Department of Motion Pictures, Court 13 Pictures, Journeyman Pictures

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Domestic: $ 12,795,746

International: $ 8,312,000

Medicine for Melancholy (2008)

Summary: Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.

Release Date: September 09, 2008

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Barry Jenkins

Writer: Barry Jenkins

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Strike Anywhere, Bandry

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000

Domestic: $ 111,551

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

Summary: A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.

Release Date: September 14, 2018

Genre: Documentary

Director: RaMell Ross

Writers: Maya Krinsky

, RaMell Ross

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Louverture Films

Distributor: The Cinema Guild, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 112,282

Night Comes On (2018)

Summary: Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.

Release Date: August 03, 2018

Genre: Drama

Director: Jordana Spiro

Writers: Jordana Spiro

, Angelica Nwandu

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Superlative Films, Genera Entertainment, Thunderhead Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

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Black Panther (2018)

Summary: T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Release Date: February 16, 2018

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Ryan Coogler

Writers: Ryan Coogler

, Joe Robert Cole

, Stan Lee

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Hotstar, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 700,426,566

International: $ 649,499,517

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Places in the Heart (1984)

Summary: In north Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Release Date: October 05, 1984

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Benton

Writer: Robert Benton

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Delphi II Productions, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: CBS/Fox, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Twilight Time, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 34,901,614

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Get Out (2017)

Summary: A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

Release Date: February 24, 2017

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Jordan Peele

Writer: Jordan Peele

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, QC Entertainment, Fuji Television Network

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

Domestic: $ 176,196,665

International: $ 79,554,778

Eve's Bayou (1997)

Summary: What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer, Louis Batiste, is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

Release Date: November 07, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Writer: Kasi Lemmons

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Trimark Pictures, ChubbCo Film, Addis Wechsler Pictures

Distributor: Trimark Pictures, HBO Max, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Pay Per View, Trimark Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,842,388

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Summary: A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

Release Date: December 01, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Martin McDonagh

Writer: Martin McDonagh

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Blueprint Pictures, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Film Four

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, KVH Media Group, iTunes

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,513,740

International: $ 108,215,581

Bessie (2015)

Summary: The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

Release Date: May 16, 2015

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Dee Rees

Writers: Dee Rees

, Christopher Cleveland

, Bettina Gilois

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: HBO Films, Flavor Unit Entertainment, The Zanuck Company

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), HBO Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English