Top 25 Black Romance Movies
It's a love thang!
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Just Wright (2010) - Queen Latifah and Common heat up the screen when they fall in love unexpectedly. Common goes from playing the field to playing to win the Queen's heart. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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The Wood (1999) - Taye Diggs and Omar Epps come of age in this film about the journey from boys to grown men, hoping to find love at the right time. (Photo: Bona Fide Productions)
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Love Jones (1997) - Larenz Tate and Nia Long connected on both an intellectual and physical level in Love Jones, making their love even more powerful. Not to mention that they are tied together by love poems.(Photo: Addis Wechsler Pictures)
Photo By Photo: New Line Cinema
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Love & Basketball (2000) - Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan play a hard game of love, proving that fighting for someone's heart is not a game.(Photo: 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks)
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The Inkwell (1994) - Larenz Tate finds "puppy love" with Jada Pinkett-Smith's character Lauren while visiting his cousin Junior Phillips (played by Duane Martin) during a summer on Martha's Vineyard.(Photo: Touchstone Pictures)
Photo By Photo: Touchstone Pictures
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Jason's Lyric (1994) - Allen Payne stars with Jada Pinkett-Smith battling both being in love with an older woman and the mean city streets. Payne finds solace in Pinkett-Smith, who provides stability to his unpredictable life. and finds that "love is courage."(Photo: MGM Pictures)
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The Best Man (1999) - Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa and Harold Perrineau all star as college friends who reunite to celebrate their love for each other in every aspect imaginable.(Photo: Universal Pictures)
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Brown Sugar (2002) - Two friends — Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs — peel back the layers of their love for each other after years of dismissing it. It all ends with one loaded question: "When did you fall in love with hip hop?"(Photo: Fox Search light Pictures)
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God Send Me a Man (2009) - Robin Givens keeps dating the wrong men in search of honest love. However, she only finds true love once she stops lying to herself and begins dating the man who was in front of her all along.(Photo: Most Wanted Films)
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Why Did I Get Married? (2007) - Janet Jackson and Malik Yoba lead a host of their married friends (Tasha Smith, Jill Scott, Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Richard T. Jones, Michael Jai White and Lamman Rucker) on a couples retreat only to find that there's major trouble in paradise.(Photo: LionsGate)
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A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) - Martin Lawrence's cheating ways finally catch up to him when he meets Lynn Whitfield...let's just say she hits him where it hurts. (Photo: The Jackson McHenry Company)
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Jumping the Broom (2011) - Laz Alonso and Paula Patton's love is tested when each of their families finally meet to celebrate their wedding ceremony. Each of them soon find that their wedding isn't the main event.(Photo:Tristar Pictures)
Photo By Photo: TriStar Pictures
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Poetic Justice (1993) - Janet Jackson finds herself falling in love with Tupac's character after multiple arguments during a road trip.(Photo: Columbia Pictures)
Photo By Photo: Columbia Pictures
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Deliver Us From Eva (2003) - Gabrielle Union plays a strong woman who eventually lets her guard down for the sexy and sincere LL Cool J.(Photo: Baltimore/Spring Greek Pictures)
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Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010) - Four couples all reunite once more in order to air their dirty laundry about love and forgivness.(Photo: Lionsgate)
Photo By Lionsgate
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For Colored Girls (2010) - Janet Jackson, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Whoopi Goldberg and Anika Noni Rose all find strength to love themselves all over again in this touching flick based on a choreo-poem by Ntozake Shange.(Photo: Lionsgate)
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Waiting to Exhale (1995) - In this film, four friends — the late Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon — all try their luck at love. For some, the gamble is worth it. For others, their luck runs out.(Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) - Angela Bassett gets a newfound sense of confidence when she meets the suave and very young Taye Diggs while on a rejuvenating vacation.(Photo: Twentieth Century Fox)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) - Based on a Zora Neale Hurston novel of the same title, Halle Berry struggles between temptation and morals when she falls in love with a younger hot-rod played by Michael Ealy. Berry's character soon sees just how far temptation and instinct will take her.(Photo: Harpo Films)
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Carmen Jones (1954) - Dorothy Dandridge plants herself at the center of a love triangle that ends in turmoil for all participants.(Photo: Carlyle Productions)
Photo By Photo: Carlyle Productions
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Carmen Jones (1954) - Dorothy Dandridge plants herself at the center of a love triangle that ends in turmoil for all participants.(Photo: Carlyle Productions)
Photo By Photo: Carlyle Productions
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Carmen Jones (1954) - Dorothy Dandridge plants herself at the center of a love triangle that ends in turmoil for all participants.(Photo: Carlyle Productions)
Photo By Photo: Carlyle Productions
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Carmen Jones (1954) - Dorothy Dandridge plants herself at the center of a love triangle that ends in turmoil for all participants.(Photo: Carlyle Productions)
Photo By Photo: Carlyle Productions
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Being Mary Jane (2013) - Gabrielle Union stars as a career driven journalist who's in search of finsing love...even if that means finding it with someone else's husband.(Photo: Akil Productions)
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Purple Rain (1984) - Prince stars in this film and realizes that he loves more than just music, but also a fellow musician named Apollonia who sings the tune of his heart.(Photo: Warner Brothers)
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