Nicole is very much in love with her boyfriend Robbie, who has an excess of intelligence and ambition. But one night at a party, Nicole is heartbroken to learn that she doesn't figure in his future plans. She moves from Los Angeles to San Francisco to start anew. Months later, a strange coincidence sees Brian, Robbie's estranged younger brother, subletting Nicole's roommate's room for a month. Before long, Nicole and Robbie find themselves trying to overcome the pain in their pasts and deal with find out more...

Jody is a young black American still growing up in South Central LA, he wants the respect of his neighbourhood but he has no means of support and still lives with his mother. It is only the arrival of his mum's new boyfriend and his girlfriend's ex that snaps Jody out of his world of dreamy aspirations and forces him to realise that there are some harsh realities to face. Baby Boy is a gritty urban drama from John Singleton that fails to quite capture the stunning heights of his 'Boyz N The Hood find out more...

Christina Ricci turns all sexy and slutty and this little temptress is the devil for embittered bluesman, yep he woke up this morning, Lazarus, who needs to pray ter god as he chains her near naked body to the radiator in order to save her soul. This is a strange mix of steam, religion and human values as individuals work together to help heal each other's damaged psyches. An up-lifting tribute to human values, with a great blues soundtrack, in this 'Southern Gothic' adaptation of George Eliot's find out more...

Sydney and Dre have been friends since childhood and share both a passion for music (hip hop) and an unsung love for each other. So when Dre marries another woman, Sydney must make her move or risk losing her soul mate forever. A conventional romantic drama/comedy for when you're tired, undemanding… and in the mood. find out more...

Carmen, a sultry woman, seduces a young soldier, Joe, in order to avoid imprisonment. However, when she leaves Joe for another man, he seeks revenge.

There’s no sexier pairing in the history of black cinema than Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. She died tragically young but this performance sees her at her best – vivacious, talented, full of agency and power - Catharine Des Forges

Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen Jones stands right at the top of my list. No compet find out more...

Theresa is engaged to be married to Simon and they're very much in love; unfortunately there is one minor detail she has failed to mention to her black family…Simon's white and when he arrives to meet the clan, dad's not well pleased. A remake of the Sidney Poitier, James Cagney ‘Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?', but with the twist being that this time the interloper is white rather than black, Guess Who seems slightly redundant in these marginally more enlightened times (at least on this side of find out more...

A kind of Jamaican "Shirley Valentine", this is the tale of a stressed-out middle-aged career woman, Stella (the very hot Angela Bassett), and her quest to escape the rat race and have some fun for a change. Enlisting best buddy Delilah (the "irrepressible" Whoopi Goldberg), the pair leave the office behind for some girlie fun in the Caribbean, but no sooner have they hit the sun-loungers than Stella attracts the attention of local Lothario Winston, who, at 20, is half her age. Based on writer T find out more...

Essentially an interacial love story betwixt two journalists set against the backdrop of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa. There's enough dirt about police murders and torture in the apartheid state to keep whites squirming uncomfortably and enough healing and forgiveness to leave you feeling that race problems dissipate with a bit of a hug. Nevertheless Boorman is a skilled film maker and he manages the finer aspects of this well scripted movie without teet find out more...

Back in 1963 a naive Southern belle dumps her hubby to try and get to JFK's funeral but ends up banding together with a fugitive black guy trying to reunite with the child he lost. The two have to beat both racism and mutual antipathy before getting it together in this unusual love story. Watch. find out more...

Justice (Jackson) is a curious mixture of streetwise sister and pensive poet, an orphan whose only boyfriend came to a sticky end. When she's joined on a cross country trip by chirpy postman Lucky, she finds him crude & shallow, hating him on sight. Thoughtful, slow-moving romantic road-movie. find out more...