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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.…

There are 18 films in this list released in the 1990s.

  • Malcolm X

    4

  • The Watermelon Woman

    14

  • Boyz n the Hood

    15

  • Hyenas

    18

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    29

  • Chocolate Babies

    30

  • Deep Cover

    40

  • To Sleep with Anger

    41

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Crooklyn

    47

  • Compensation

    48

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    50

  • Drylongso

    51

  • Eve's Bayou

    76

  • Love Jones

    82

  • Daughters of the Dust

    93

  • One False Move

    94

  • Set It Off

    100