 | What's Love Got To Do With It?
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.95 Angela Bassett. She is dynamic capturing the fiery passion, tender heart and grit of Tina Turner.
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 | Claudine (1974)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.79 Diahann Carroll. She is phenomenal as a woman trying to raise six children and find true love.
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 | Sounder
Buy used from: $6.98 Cicely Tyson. She gives a brilliant performance as a wife and mother staying strong for her family in the hardest of times. Watching her on screen is like 'Bible' instructions for actresses. She's just a master of cinematic greatness.
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 | Losing Isaiah
Buy used from: $3.82 Halle Berry. Yes, we know she won an Oscar for "Monster's Ball", but this is a riveting and moving performance from her as a recovered crack addict who wants custody of her child.
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 | Lady Sings the Blues
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.91 Diana Ross. She was unforgettable as the tormented songstress Billie Holiday.
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 | A Raisin in the Sun
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $12.98 Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeill and Diana Sands. These actresses can hold their own in the presence of Sidney Poiter and can steal scenes with brilliant performances.
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 | Ray (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.41 Regina King. Kerry Washington. Sharon Warren. Each sista gave an incredible performance. Regina King was pure fire.
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![Landlord [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516WDDAH4ML._SL75_.jpg) | Landlord [VHS]
Buy used from: $8.40 Diana Sands. This late actress was superior on screen. She deserves much recognition for her soulful and mesmerizing screen presence, especially in this surreal 70's arthouse feature.
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 | The Color Purple
Buy used from: $4.87 Whoopi Goldberg. Oprah Winfrey. Margaret Avery. Outstanding performances.
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 | Eve's Bayou
Buy used from: $2.63 Lynn Whitfield. Debi Morgan. In this haunting drama these two actresses give amazing performances. And Jurnee Smollet is a young enormous talent.
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 | Lackawanna Blues
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.56 S. Epatha Merkerson. She's just damn incredible in this movie.
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 | Hustle & Flow (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.10 Taraji P. Henson. She should have been nominated for an Oscar for her role as a naive and sweet pregnant prostitute.
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 | Crash (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.94 Thandie Newton. In this ensemble drama, she gave a rich and moving performance as a woman violated by a police officer.
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 | Secrets and Lies
Buy used from: $31.74 Marianne Jean-Baptiste. She gave a brilliant underrated performance as a black woman who discovers her birth mother is white.
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 | Carmen Jones
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $5.09 Dorothy Dandridge. Watch this luminous actress shine on screen with effortless appeal. Brilliant and gone too soon.
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 | Crooklyn
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.99 Alfre Woodard. She plays a fiery frustrated Brooklyn mother of five cute, snot-nose kids. Woodard is always tremendous.
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![Sparkle [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F9R3DKWZL._SL75_.jpg) | Sparkle [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.99 Lonette McKee. This was really her movie. She was dazzling and stole every scene as a talented drug-addicted singer.
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 | Nine Lives
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.98 Lisa Gay Hamilton. Ten minutes of emotional brilliance! Your heart will ache as you watch her on screen as a daughter ready to expose haunting family secrets.
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 | Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $50.13 Kaycee Moore. Such a tender, utterly heartbreaking performance as a wife in an emotionally frustrating marriage.
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 | Deconstructing Harry
Buy used from: $27.95 Hazelle Goodman. Historically the first Black actress with a major role in a Woody Allen flick. She gives such a wonderful, comedic performance you wish she was in every scene.
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 | Slam
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.14 Sonja Sohn. Highly underrated, she blows the lid off this movie. She is unbelievable as an ex-crack addict with a gift of words.
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![She's Gotta Have It [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FBCVX54SL._SL75_.jpg) | She's Gotta Have It [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.49 Tracy Camilla Johns. Not sure where she is now, but she had incredible potential in Spike's debut. A smart and clever performance.
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 | Mo' Better Blues
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.14 Cynda Williams. With a beautiful and captivating presence on screen, it's a shame we haven't seen more of her. She definitely held her own with Denzel in this film.
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 | Fearless
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.53 Rosie Perez. Underrated actress of color. She was riveting as a devestated mother who lost her son in a plane crash.
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 | Love and Basketball (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.79 Sanaa Lathan. She gave a wonderful and strong performance in this excellent feature as a basketball player in love with a childhood friend.
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 | The Dead Girl
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $2.82 Kerry Washington. Incredibly brilliant performance. She steals this movie!
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 | Antwone Fisher (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.99 Salli Richardson. She may have had probably all of four scenes but she was so tender and moving as the frustrated wife of Denzel Washington.
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 | Nothing But a Man
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $11.19 Abbey Lincoln. She gives a strong, heartfelt performance as a woman involved in a tender and turbulent romance.
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 | Ali
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.34 Nona Gaye. She was probably in about five scenes but she was captivating as Ali's loyal and unwavering wife.
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 | Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.51 Pam Grier. She gives a very strong and amazingly cool performance in Tarantino's most mature film to date.
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 | Half Nelson
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.94 Shareeka Epps. She gives this very gritty drama it's heart. A quiet and moving, and highly underratd performance.
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 | On the Outs
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.49 Judy Marte. A brilliant actress of color. She steals this movie with a very powerful and moving performance.
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 | Dreamgirls (Two-Disc Showstopper Edition)
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $1.94 Anika Noni Rose. Yes, Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar and was wonderful but Ms. Rose had the most overlooked performance in the movie. She was great and the screen lit up any time she was on it.
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 | Malcolm X
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.54 Angela Bassett. As Malcolm X's loyal and loving wife Betty Shabazz, Angela brings such depth and emotion.
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 | Love Jones
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.89 Nia Long. You couldn't help but feel for her as the young woman struck by love and terrified to give into it.
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 | Akeelah and the Bee (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $2.21 Keke Palmer. Angela Bassett. Keke held her own in the presence of Laurece Fishbourne and Angela Bassett. A young talent to watch for. Angela Bassett was moving as the deeply frustrated yet loving mother.
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 | Set It Off (Snap Case)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.00 Queen Latifah. She gave the movie it's grit as the tough-as-nails lesbian who robs banks with her homegirls. A strong performance in a so-so movie.
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 | Menace II Society
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $2.52 Jada Pinkett Smith. She gave a strong performance as a sista from the hood determined to make her way out.
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 | Passion Fish
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.50 Alfre Woodard. A performance like this is why we love her.
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 | Waiting to Exhale
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.82 Angela Bassett. A contrived and over-blown movie but Angela Bassett gives the movie its heart and soul with its most moving performance.
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