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Black Directors: The Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films

Ranked by average rating. The list was extracted largely thanks to this megalist of films directed by Black directors. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• This list includes Black co-directors or any Black directors on a diverse team.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

This list is by no means a definitive canon of Black directors in film history.…

  • Looking for Langston

    20

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    29

  • Education

    66

  • Black Girl

    12

  • Crazy World

    43

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    7

  • Lovers Rock

    16

  • Bad Black

    42

  • Supa Modo

    65

  • Killer of Sheep

    31

  • Red, White and Blue

    67

  • Drylongso

    51

  • My Brother's Wedding

    95

  • Fruitvale Station

    33

  • Rye Lane

    44

  • Chocolate Babies

    30

  • The Watermelon Woman

    14

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    39

  • A Bruddah's Mind

    89

  • Pariah

    24

  • Losing Ground

    55

  • On the Count of Three

    63

  • The Story of a Three-Day

    54

  • The Child of Another

    71

  • Mandabi

    75

  • Touki Bouki

    59

  • D.E.B.S.

    99

  • Compensation

    48

  • I Am Not a Witch

    61

  • Chameleon Street

    69

  • Hunger

    23

  • Timbuktu

    84

  • Bush Mama

    37

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Submarine

    53

  • Sidewalk Stories

    60

  • Paid in Full

    72

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    85

  • Watermelon Man

    97

  • Soul

    35

  • To Sleep with Anger

    41

  • Emitaï

    46

  • Earth Mama

    98

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    34

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    50

  • Sambizanga

    56

  • Coffee With Cinnamon

    73

  • Shame

    80

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    64

  • Get Out

    9

  • Oh, Sun

    21

  • Les Misérables

    58

  • One False Move

    94

  • Deep Cover

    40

  • Love Jones

    82

  • Eve's Bayou

    76

  • Hyenas

    18

  • Moonlight

    6

  • Boyz n the Hood

    15

  • Sorry to Bother You

    91

  • Daughters of the Dust

    93

  • Crooklyn

    47

  • Mars One

    49

  • Bamako

    92

  • West Indies

    13

  • A Thousand and One

    78

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    96

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    2

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    88

  • American Fiction

    90

  • The Killing Floor

    83

  • Do the Right Thing

    3

  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    17

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    36

  • Goodbye Julia

    38

  • Training Day

    26

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    79

  • Saint Omer

    86

  • Set It Off

    100

  • Moolaadé

    28

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    19

  • Pressure

    68

  • Mangrove

    10

  • Selma

    77

  • Creed

    70

  • 12 Years a Slave

    8

  • 25th Hour

    52

  • Mudbound

    87

  • BlacKkKlansman

    32

  • Bamboozled

    57

  • Coach Carter

    81

  • Sinners

    5

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    1

  • Nickel Boys

    27

  • Sometimes in April

    62

  • Straight Outta Compton

    74

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    11

  • Personal Problems

    22

  • Malcolm X

    4