List of films about black girlhood

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.

pre-1980s

1980-1989

The Color Purple (1985)
Polly (1989)

1990-1999

Flirting (1991)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Sarafina! (1992)
Crooklyn (1994)
Alma's Rainbow (1994)
Girls Town (1996)
EveÃ¢ÂÂs Bayou (1997)
Cinderella (1997)
Drylongso (1998)
Ruby Bridges (1998)
Double Platinum (1999)
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)

2000-2009

Bring It On (2000)
The Color of Friendship (2000)
Love & Basketball (2000)
Our Song (2000)
Seventeen Again (2000)
The Cheetah Girls (2003)
Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)
The Proud Family Movie (2005)
Twitches (2005)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
For One Night (2006)
Half Nelson (2006)
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College Road Trip (2008)

Rain (2008)

Precious (2009)

The Princess and the Frog 2009

2010-2019

Pariah(2011)

Yelling to the Sky (2011)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Sparkle (2012)

Annie (2014)

Girlhood (2014)

The Gabby Douglas Story (2014)

The Fits (2015)

Home (2015)

A Girl Like Grace (2015)

Flowers (2016)

The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

Queen of Katwe (2016)

Deidra & Laney Rob A Train (2017)

For Ahkeem (2017)

Everything, Everything (2017)

I Am Not a Witch (2017)

Roxanne, Roxanne (2017)

Step (2017)

The Wiz Live! (2017)

Jinn(2018)

Mahalia Melts in the Rain (2018)

Night Comes On (2018)

Rafiki (2018)

Solace (2018)

First Match (2018)

Fast Color (2018)

The Hate U Give (2018)

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Jezebel (2019)

Little (2019)

Pick (2019)

Rocks (2019)

Premature (2019)

Selah and the Spades (2019)

See You Yesterday (2019)

The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)

Atlantics (2019)

Zombi Child (2019)

2020s

A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)

Cuties (2020)

Miss Juneteenth (2020)

Pillars (2020)

She Paradise (2020)

Selah and the Spades (2020)

Tahara (2020)

Upside-Down Magic (2020)

Beba (2021)

Black as Night (2021)

Respect (2021)

Sisters on Track (2021)

Anything's Possible (2022)

Darby and the Dead (2022)

Hawa (2022)

On The Come Up (2022)

The Silent Twins (2022)

Wendell & Wild (2022)

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)

The Color Purple (2023)

Gray Matter (2023)

Girl (2023)

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Missing (2023)

Praise This (2023)

Wish (2023)

Dandelion (2024)

Suncoast (2024)

One of Them Days (2024)

See also

List of teen films

Sociology of childhood

References