List of films about black girlhood
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This is a list of mostly U.S. American films about black girlhood. This age group can range from young children to those experiencing adolescence. These depictions are often called coming-of-age stories.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/666948787/from-jinn-to-just-another-girl-on-the-i-r-t-black-girlhood-on-film|title=From 'Jinn' To 'Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.': Black Girlhood On Film|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bimadewunmi/black-girls-find-their-own-coming-of-age-narratives|title=Finding Our Own Coming-Of-Age Narratives|website=BuzzFeed News|language=en|access-date=2019-04-06}}
pre-1980s
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- Black Girl (1972)
- Cooley High (1975)
1980-1989
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Polly (1989)
1990-1999
- Flirting (1991)
- Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.{{Cite web|url=https://shadowandact.com/the-11-most-essential-movies-that-showcase-the-beauty-and-nuance-of-black-girlhood-on-the-big-screen|title=The 11 Most Essential Movies That Showcase The Beauty And Nuance Of Black Girlhood On The Big Screen|website=shadowandact.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-06}} (1992)
- Sarafina! (1992)
- Crooklyn (1994)
- Alma's Rainbow{{cite web |last1=Tinubu |first1=Aramide |title='Alma's Rainbow': Dr. Ayoka Chenzira Reflects On The Return Of Her Glittering Coming-Of-Age Film |url=https://blavity.com/entertainment/almas-rainbow-dr-ayoka-chenzira-reflects-on-the-return-of-her-glittering-coming-of-age-film |website=Blavity News & Entertainment |access-date=5 February 2024 |language=en}} (1994)
- Girls Town (1996)
- Eve’s Bayou (1997)
- Cinderella (1997)
- Drylongso{{cite web |last1=Price |first1=Yasmina |title=Drylongso: A Refuge of Their Own |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8236-drylongso-a-refuge-of-their-own |website=Current |language=en |publisher=The Criterion Collection |access-date=5 February 2024}} (1998)
- Ruby Bridges{{Cite web |last=Sciences |first=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and |title=Essential Euzhan Palcy Movies to Watch |url=https://aframe.oscars.org/what-to-watch/post/essential-euzhan-palcy-movies-to-watch |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=A.frame |language=en}} (1998)
2000-2009
- Bring It On (2000)
- Love & Basketball (2000)
- Our Song (2000)
- The Cheetah Girls (2003)
- Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
- Half Nelson{{Cite book |last=Blay |first=Zeba |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhcmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT113 |title=Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture |publisher=St. Martin’s Griffin |year=2021 |access-date=2022-03-23}} (2006)
- Rain{{Cite web |last=Goodridge2008-09-07T01:55:00+01:00 |first=Mike |title=Rain (Lluvia) |url=https://www.screendaily.com/rain-lluvia/4040675.article |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Screen |language=en}} (2008)
- Precious (2009)
- The Princess and the Frog{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Peyton |title=Where’s My Black Girlhood?: The Whitewashing of the Femme Boom {{!}} Features {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/wheres-my-black-girlhood-the-whitewashing-of-the-femme-boom |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=www.rogerebert.com/ |language=en}} 2009
2010-2019
- Pariah(2011)
- Yelling to the Sky (2011)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
- Girlhood (2014)
- The Gabby Douglas Story{{Cite web |last=Lowry |first=Brian |date=2014-01-29 |title=TV Review: ‘The Gabby Douglas Story’ |url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/reviews/tv-review-the-gabby-douglas-story-1201074658/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} (2014)
- The Fits{{Cite web|url=https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/vb4dva/anna-rose-holmer-director-the-fits-interview|title=This Powerful Film About Black Girlhood Is Being Compared to 'Moonlight'|last=McLaughlin|first=Katherine|date=2017-03-17|website=Broadly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-06}} (2015)
- Home{{Cite web |date=2015-09-08 |title=DreamWorks' Home Review |url=https://blacknerdproblems.com/dreamworks-home-review/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Black Nerd Problems |language=en-US}} (2015)
- A Girl Like Grace{{Cite web |last=Berkshire |first=Geoff |date=2015-06-23 |title=Film Review: ‘A Girl Like Grace’ |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/a-girl-like-grace-review-1201525137/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} (2015)
- Flowers{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackenterprise.com/how-two-filmmakers-are-taking-on-the-complexities-of-black-girlhood/|title=How Two Filmmakers Are Taking on the Complexity of Black Girlhood|date=2016-09-16|website=Black Enterprise|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-06}} (2016)
- The Girl with All the Gifts{{Cite web|last=Folkes|first=Sula Douglas|date=2020-11-28|title=Is this the Golden Age for films about Black Girlhood?|url=http://www.weareparable.com/is-this-the-golden-age-for-films-about-black-girlhood/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-26|website=We Are Parable|language=en-US}} (2016)
- Queen of Katwe{{Cite web |last=Ndilula |first=Gloria |title=Fillmmaker reimagines black girlhood |url=http://www.laloyolan.com/social_justice/fillmmaker-reimagines-black-girlhood/article_72e7562e-3a7a-5a16-926a-891f89c2a5e3.html |access-date=2020-06-22 |website=Los Angeles Loyolan |language=en}} (2016)
- For Ahkeem{{Cite web|url=https://www.jetmag.com/entertainment/ahkeem-millennial-documentary-black-girlhood/|title='For Ahkeem' Is THE Millennial Documentary On Black Girlhood - JetMag.com|website=www.jetmag.com|access-date=2019-04-06}} (2017)
- I Am Not a Witch{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribecafilm.com/stories/films-by-black-women-directors-guide|title=A Guide to Essential, Underrated, and Flat-Out Extraordinary Films by Black Women Directors|website=Tribeca|access-date=2020-01-09}} (2017)
- Everything, Everything (2017)
- Roxanne, Roxanne (2017)
- Deidra & Laney Rob A Train{{Cite web |last=Tinubu |first=Aramide A. |date=March 17, 2017 |title=REVIEW: ‘DEIDRA & LANEY ROB A TRAIN' IS A WHIMSICAL, FRESHLY ACTED TALE OF SISTERHOOD & SHEER DETERMINATION |url=https://blavity.com/entertainment/deidra-laney-rob-a-train-is-a-whimsical-freshly-acted-tale-of-sisterhood-sheer-determination |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Blavity News & Entertainment |language=en}} (2017)
- Jinn(2018)
- Mahalia Melts in the Rain (2018)
- Night Comes On (2018)
- Rafiki (2018)
- Solace (2018)
- First Match {{Cite web |last=Tinubu |first=Aramide A. |date=2023-02-20 |title=18 Wonderful Films About Black Girlhood and the Coming-of-Age Experience |url=https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/films-black-girlhood-coming-of-age/ |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} (2018)
- Fast Color{{Cite web |title=11 Modern Coming of Age Movies That Center Black Girls - Okayplayer |url=https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/coming-of-age-movies-black-girls-women.html |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=www.okayplayer.com |language=en}} (2018)
- The Hate U Give{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/the-hate-u-give-movie-starr-carter-black-girlhood/573319/|title=The Complexity of Black Girlhood Is at the Heart of 'The Hate U Give'|last=Ford|first=Tanisha C.|date=2018-10-19|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-06}} (2018)
- A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
- Jezebel{{Cite web|url=https://shadowandact.com/stop-saying-there-are-no-coming-of-age-films-about-black-girls-opinion|title=Stop Saying There Are No Coming Of Age Films About Black Girls [Opinion]|website=shadowandact.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-09}} (2019)
- Little{{Cite web|url=https://www.essence.com/entertainment/only-essence/marsai-martin-issa-rae-more-black-girlhood-on-screen/|title=Marsai Martin And Issa Rae Want More Depictions Of Black Girlhood On Screen|website=Essence|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-06}} (2019)
- Pick (2019)Mike Adler, [https://www.toronto.com/whatson-story/9699200-with-pick-scarborough-filmmaker-shows-a-choice-black-girls-face/ "With PICK, Scarborough filmmaker shows a choice black girls face"]. Toronto.com, November 15, 2019.
- Rocks{{Cite web |last=Garrett |first=Camryn |date=2022-02-17 |title=Five Coming-of-Age Movies for the Black Female Experience |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/black-girl-coming-of-age-movies |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}} (2019)
- Premature (2019)
- Selah and the Spades (2019)
- See You Yesterday{{Cite web|url=https://afropunk.com/2019/04/see-you-yesterday/|title=THE TRAILER FOR NETLFIX'S 'SEE YOU YESTERDAY' IS AN AFROFUTURIST DREAM|date=2019-04-22|website=AFROPUNK|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-12}} (2019)
- The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
- Atlantics (2019)
2020s
- Miss Juneteenth{{Cite news|last=Gyarkye|first=Lovia|date=2020-06-18|title='Miss Juneteenth' Review: Celebrating Black Girlhood|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/movies/miss-juneteenth-review.html|access-date=2020-06-22|issn=0362-4331}} (2020)
- Cuties{{Cite news|last=Tillet|first=Salamishah|date=2020-10-02|title=What the 'Cuties' Critics Can't See: The Complexities of Black Girlhood|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/movies/cuties-netflix.html|access-date=2020-12-26|issn=0362-4331}} (2020)
- Pillars (2020)
- Tahara{{Cite web |title=In 'Tahara,' a Black Queer Jewish Teen Tackles Grief and Toxicity |url=https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/8/29/tahara-black-queer-jewish-teen-tackles-grief-and-toxicity |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=www.advocate.com |language=en}} (2020)
- She Paradise {{Cite web |last=Linden |first=Sheri |date=2020-10-26 |title=‘She Paradise’: Film Review {{!}} AFI 2020 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/she-paradise-film-review-afi-2020-4079793/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}(2020)
- On The Come Up (2022)
- Wendell & Wild{{Cite web |last=Peay |first=Malik |date=2022-10-31 |title=How Jordan Peele Probes Black Childhood Fear, Spirituality, and Comedy in ‘Wendell & Wild’ |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/10/how-jordan-peele-probes-black-childhood-fear-spirituality-and-comedy-in-wendell-and-wild |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} (2022)
- Darby and the Dead{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Alex |date=2022-12-05 |title=Charming But Shallow: Darby and the Dead |url=https://reactormag.com/movie-review-darby-and-the-dead/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Reactor |language=en-US}} (2022)
- Hawa{{Cite web |last=Ibrahim |first=Shamira |date=2023-01-18 |title=The Film That Accurately Captures Teen Grief |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/01/hawa-2022-movie-review-prime/672751/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}} (2022)
- All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt{{Cite web |last=Sayre |first=Will |date=2023-11-04 |title=All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Review {{!}} Poetic Coming-of-Age Drama Will Challenge You |url=https://movieweb.com/all-dirt-roads-taste-of-salt-review/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=MovieWeb |language=en}} (2023)
- Girl {{Cite web |last=Feltus |first=Cassondra |date=2023-01-23 |title=Sundance 2023 Review: Adura Onashile’s ‘Girl’ Explores Trauma and Mother-Daughter Relationships |url=https://blackgirlnerds.com/sundance-2023-review-adura-onashiles-girl-explores-trauma-and-mother-daughter-relationships/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Black Girl Nerds |language=en-US}} (2023)