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 Imitation of Life (1934) Jemima & Johnny (1966) Black Girl (1972) Cooley High (1975) Black Sister's Revenge (1976) Sparkle (1976) Cindy (1978) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
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) Eve’s 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) Life Is Not A Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006) 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)Mike Adler, "With PICK, Scarborough filmmaker shows a choice black girls face". Toronto.com, November 15, 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
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