Top 25 Black Romance Movies

It's a love thang!

Just Wright, Tuesday at 7P/6C - Common's playing but Queen Latifah's the real winner. See other actors play in these sports flicks. Encore on Wednesday at 3P/2C.(Photo: FOX Searchlight Pictures)

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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)

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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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)

Love Jones (1997) - Ariel C. Williams ‏@ArielSaysNow: "@BET I'm the blues in ur left thigh tryin 2 become the funk in ur right...Come on slim F yo man I aint worried bout him #BlackMovieQuotes"   (Photo: New Line Cinema) 

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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)

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Love & Basketball (2000) - Immediately following The Best Man, Hall landed another plum supporting role as Sanaa Lathan's sister in this romantic drama about love and competition.   (Photo: 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks) 

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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)

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)

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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)

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Jason's Lyric, Wednesday at 9A/8C - Allen Payne and Jada Pinkett-Smith are listening to love's song. Take a look at a few other flicks where the music of love captures some lucky hearts.(Photo: MGM 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)

The Best Man (1999) - Hall played Candy in this seminal rom-com classic. Her performance as a surprisingly wholesome exotic dancer won her the heart of Harold Perrineau's character, Murch, and also got audiences to take notice.  (Photo: Universal 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)

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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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)

God Send Me A Man, Monday at 9A/8C - Robin Givens searches for the right man. Fall in love with a few other flicks where people are searching for the right one! (Photo: Most Wanted Films)

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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)

Why Did I Get Married?, Thursday at 7P/6C - Janet Jackson's teaching a few people about love, but is her love all sorted out? Encore presentation on Friday at 1P/12C.(Photo: Courtesy of LionsGate)

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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 & Hate, Friday at 7:30P/6:30C - Lynn Whitfield and Martin Lawrence are losing at love. See a few other flicks where people try to make love work. 

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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)

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)

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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)

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Poetic Justice (1993) - John Singleton's love story between a talented poet (Janet Jackson) and a mail clerk with musical ambitions (Tupac Shakur) opened at No. 1 despite screening on only half as many screens as the average widely released film. (Photo: Courtesy Columbia 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)

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Deliver Us From Eva, Sunday at 2:30P/1:30C - Gabrielle Union's playing no games. Take a look at her life in film. (Photo: Focus Features)

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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)

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)

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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)

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For Colored Girls, Saturday at 4:30P/3:30C - These women are looking for love and finding themselves.(Photo: 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)

Waiting to Exhale, Saturday at 7P/6C - Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Angela Bassett and the late Whitney Houston relax, relate and release. Encore presentation on Sunday at 3P/2C.(Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Pictures)

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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)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Monday at 7P/6C - Angela Basett's getting reacquainted with love again. Flip through and see films where love introduces itself to a few hopeless romantics. (Photo: Twentieth Century Fox) Movie Poster

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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)

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 coming-of-age novel about a Black teenage girl from southern Florida was given new life on the small screen by—who else?—Oprah Winfrey, who introduced the film when it was first telecast in 2005. Halle Berry played the lead character Janie Crawford, with Michael Ealy as her young lover.(Photo: Harpo Films)

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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)

Carmen Jones (1954) - Dorothy Dandridge plants herself at the center of a love triangle that ends in turmoil for all participants.(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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Being Mary Jane: The Intimate Edition, Tuesday at 7P/6C - Gabrielle Union peels the layers back of her flawless character. Take a peek at a few other films that cover jumping into the scary pool of love. 

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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)

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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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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Mahogany (1975) - shawna r anderson ‏@ladiluv912: "@BET 'Success is NOTHING without someone to share it with ..' Billie dee williams in Mahogany with Diana Ross #BlackMovieQuotes"  (Photo: Paramount Pictures) 

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Mahogany (1975) - Diana Ross becomes someone's muse in this 1975 film after fleeing love's call for Rome. Ross' love interest in the film, Billy Dee Williams, wants her to decide between her budding fashion career and him. Ross chooses the former and proves she's not meant to be someone's housewife.(Photo: Motown Productions)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) - Sidney Poitier stars alongside the phenomenal Ruby Dee as a hard-working chauffer who's love runs deep for his wife, son, sister and mother. This same love causes Poitier's character to resort to extreme measures to insure their happiness.(Photo: Columbia Pictures)

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A Raisin in the Sun (1961) - Sidney Poitier stars alongside the phenomenal Ruby Dee as a hard-working chauffer who's love runs deep for his wife, son, sister and mother. This same love causes Poitier's character to resort to extreme measures to insure their happiness.(Photo: Columbia Pictures)

Boomerang (1992) - Mari ‏@mari_hunns: "@BET 'But you would never, ever think a girl that fine would have hammer time in her shoes.' #BlackMovieQuotes #Boomerang"  (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

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Boomerang (1992) - Eddie Murphy stars in this flick all about the catch as a playboy who tries his best to woo his new boss, Robin Givens. Soon, Murphy discovers that a new woman, Halle Berry, is out to tame him! (Photo: Paramount Pictures)

The Best Black Love Story of All Time - Watch one of the best Black love stories unfold on Monday, February 16, 2015 at 8P/7C. Take a peek now!  (Photo: Joe Alblas/Conquering Lion Pictures/Out of Africa Pictures/CBC)

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The Best Black Love Story of All Time - Watch one of the best Black love stories unfold on Monday, February 16, 2015 at 8P/7C. Take a peek now! (Photo: Joe Alblas/Conquering Lion Pictures/Out of Africa Pictures/CBC)