Top 20 Black Family Films
Flicks that show what family is all about!
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Soul Food - With an all-star cast, this flick presented the essential depiction of the Black family in the 90's. From Vanessa William's marriage troubles to Nia Long's love triangle and Vivica Foxx's resentment toward her siblings. Sound about right, huh?(Photo: Fox Pictures)
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The Family That Preys - Showing a new side to family, this Tyler Perry flick challenged the notion of whether two sepearate, yet similar families would be able to get along. Do they figure it out?(Photo: Lionsgate Films)
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Madea's Family Reunion - What would family be without seeing a little Madea? The one person you want crash landing into your home is the mother of the pistol herself, like she does in Madea's family Reunion!(Photo: Lionsgate Films)
Photo By Photo: Lionsgate Films
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Johnson Family Vacation - In this flick Cedric the Entertainer takes his family on a road trip of a lifetime. Do they all return in one piece, though?(photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Crooklyn - Alfre Woodard holds down the fort in this flick about motherhood, womanhood and the power of family.(Photo: Universal Pictures)
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Red Hook Summer - One young man's relationship with his grandfather is taken to new heights over the course of one summer in this Spike Lee flick.(Photo: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks)
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The Perfect Holiday - This flick, staring Queen Latifah, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut and Gabrielle Union shows just how a makeshift family could work.(Photo: Destination Films)
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Daddy Day Care - Eddie Murphy's going through the ringer with these kids in this flick about one dad who decides to turn his homestay into a place of play.(Photo: Columbia Pictures)
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Seventeen Again - Tia and Tamera find themselves caught up in a family feud of epic proportions when they each travel back in time to fix things.(Photo: Showtime Networks)
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Eve's Bayou - In this southern based flick, Lynn Whitfield helps her young daughter (played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell) keep a very deep and dark secret. The true definition of how family stick together!(Photo: TriMark Pictures)
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This Christmas - Nothing like family to bring criminals into your home, fight and celebrate Christmas all in the same day. Yeah, this happened in this Black family flick starring Chris Brown, Regina King and Loretta Devine.(Photo: Facilitator Films)
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Are We Done Yet? - Ice Cube's the father with the master plan in this family flick. (Photo: Columbia TriStar)
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Dr. Dolittle - The original dog whisperer of film meets some of his most animalistic clients in this movie starring Eddie Murphy.(Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)
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Sparkle - In this flick starring Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston, a family driven by fame soon becomes infamously damaged. (Photo: Stage 6 Films)
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Secret Life of Bees - Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson are teach the young Dakota Fanning about the ways of the world. (photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Akeelah and the Bee - KeKe Palmer's making her family proud by spelling her way to the top of a national spellng-bee competition. (Photo: Reactor Films)
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Big Momma's House - Martin Lawrence has come home to protect what's his in this flick, staged as a family matriarch in order to find a low down, dirty criminal. (Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)
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The Wiz - A bit unorthodox, The Wiz follows a fixed family of make-believe characters, staring Diana Ross and the late Michael Jackson as they search to meet the wizard. (Photo: Universal Pictures)
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In the Hive - Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine and the late Michael Clarke Duncan do their best to show one young boy what it takes to become the type of man he wants to be. (Photo: V Studios)
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