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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.…

  • Black Girl

    12

  • The Story of a Three-Day

    54

  • Mandabi

    75

  • Oh, Sun

    21

  • Watermelon Man

    97

  • Emitaï

    46

  • Sambizanga

    56

  • Touki Bouki

    59

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    34

  • The Child of Another

    71

  • Pressure

    68

  • Killer of Sheep

    31

  • West Indies

    13

  • Bush Mama

    37

  • Personal Problems

    22

  • Losing Ground

    55

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    64

  • My Brother's Wedding

    95

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    39

  • The Killing Floor

    83

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    11

  • Do the Right Thing

    3

  • Chameleon Street

    69

  • Sidewalk Stories

    60

  • Looking for Langston

    20

  • To Sleep with Anger

    41

  • Daughters of the Dust

    93

  • Boyz n the Hood

    15

  • One False Move

    94

  • Deep Cover

    40

  • Hyenas

    18

  • Malcolm X

    4

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Crooklyn

    47

  • The Watermelon Woman

    14

  • Chocolate Babies

    30

  • Set It Off

    100

  • Love Jones

    82

  • Eve's Bayou

    76

  • Drylongso

    51

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    29

  • Compensation

    48

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    50

  • Bamboozled

    57

  • Training Day

    26

  • Paid in Full

    72

  • 25th Hour

    52

  • D.E.B.S.

    99

  • Moolaadé

    28

  • Coach Carter

    81

  • Sometimes in April

    62

  • Bamako

    92

  • Hunger

    23

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    7

  • Submarine

    53

  • Pariah

    24

  • Shame

    80

  • Fruitvale Station

    33

  • 12 Years a Slave

    8

  • Crazy World

    43

  • Timbuktu

    84

  • Selma

    77

  • Straight Outta Compton

    74

  • Creed

    70

  • Moonlight

    6

  • Bad Black

    42

  • Mudbound

    87

  • Get Out

    9

  • I Am Not a Witch

    61

  • Coffee With Cinnamon

    73

  • Sorry to Bother You

    91

  • Supa Modo

    65

  • BlacKkKlansman

    32

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    36

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    2

  • Les Misérables

    58

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

    17

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    79

  • A Bruddah's Mind

    89

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    96

  • Mangrove

    10

  • Red, White and Blue

    67

  • Soul

    35

  • Lovers Rock

    16

  • Education

    66

  • On the Count of Three

    63

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    19

  • Mars One

    49

  • Saint Omer

    86

  • Earth Mama

    98

  • A Thousand and One

    78

  • Rye Lane

    44

  • Goodbye Julia

    38

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    1

  • American Fiction

    90

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    88

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    85

  • Nickel Boys

    27

  • Sinners

    5