Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "black-hero"

1. Wish (II) (2023)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.

Directors: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn | Stars: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral

Votes: 33,368 | Gross: $0.00M

2. The Equalizer 3 (2023)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman

Votes: 114,406

3. The Equalizer (2014)

R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour

Votes: 419,951 | Gross: $101.53M

4. Get Out (I) (2017)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener

Votes: 696,511 | Gross: $176.04M

5. The Suicide Squad (2021)

R | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman

Votes: 409,487 | Gross: $55.82M

6. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher

Votes: 203,108 | Gross: $234.76M

7. Tenet (2020)

PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Juhan Ulfsak

Votes: 592,512 | Gross: $58.46M

8. Man on Fire (2004)

R | 146 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In Mexico City, a former CIA operative swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell

Votes: 389,511 | Gross: $77.91M

9. Bad Boys (1995)

R | 119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Lisa Boyle, Michael Taliferro

Votes: 286,312 | Gross: $65.81M

10. The Equalizer 2 (2018)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean

Votes: 197,637 | Gross: $102.08M

11. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

Action, Comedy, Crime | Post-production

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter life is threatened for a family reunion that includes old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy.

Director: Mark Molloy | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold

12. Black Adam (2022)

PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo

Votes: 273,864 | Gross: $168.15M

13. Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.

Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta, Eugene Collier

Votes: 87,545 | Gross: $42.61M

14. Men in Black: International (2019)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 146,997 | Gross: $80.00M

15. Incredibles 2 (2018)

PG | 118 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Incredibles family takes on a new mission which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner

Votes: 331,142 | Gross: $608.58M

16. The Magnificent Seven (2016)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 228,158 | Gross: $93.43M

17. The Golden Child (1986)

PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Eddie Murphy, J.L. Reate, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis

Votes: 59,375 | Gross: $79.82M

18. The Dark Tower (2017)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 145,805 | Gross: $50.70M

19. Day Shift (2022)

R | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

A hard-working, blue-collar dad just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted 10-year-old daughter. His mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income: hunting and killing vampires.

Director: J.J. Perry | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Meagan Good

Votes: 89,870

20. Wild Wild West (1999)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

The two best special agents in the Wild West must save President Grant from the clutches of a diabolical, wheelchair-bound, steampunk-savvy, Confederate scientist bent on revenge for losing the Civil War.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek

Votes: 167,278 | Gross: $113.81M

21. Foxy Brown (1974)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter

Votes: 12,026 | Gross: $2.46M

22. Spawn (1997)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil.

Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé | Stars: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle

Votes: 72,280 | Gross: $54.97M

23. Without Remorse (II) (2021)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An elite Navy SEAL goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.

Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce

Votes: 64,534

24. The Call (II) (2013)

R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller

When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Halle Berry, Evie Thompson, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut

Votes: 129,751 | Gross: $51.87M

25. Bastille Day (2016)

R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France.

Director: James Watkins | Stars: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon, Kelly Reilly

Votes: 50,924 | Gross: $0.04M

26. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

R | 116 min | Crime, Drama

An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman

Votes: 96,946 | Gross: $3.31M

27. National Security (2003)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.

Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke

Votes: 54,273 | Gross: $36.38M

28. Surviving the Game (1994)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey

Votes: 13,157 | Gross: $7.73M

29. Alex Cross (2012)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in torture and pain.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols, Edward Burns

Votes: 35,415 | Gross: $25.89M

30. xXx: State of the Union (2005)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Darius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States.

Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman

Votes: 73,607 | Gross: $26.87M

31. Shaft (1971)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John

Votes: 21,024 | Gross: $16.69M

32. Boss Nigger (1974)

PG | 87 min | Comedy, Western

Two black bounty hunters, pursuing an outlaw, take over a small Western town without a sheriff.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, William Smith, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 2,928

33. Drop Zone (1994)

R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A tough cop teams up with a professional skydiver to capture a renegade computer hacker on the run from the law.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter

Votes: 21,568 | Gross: $28.72M

34. TC 2000 (1993)

R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Somewhere in an apocalyptic future, where the rich live underground and the poor are left to fend for themselves on the surface by forming gangs, corrupt members of an underground security force plot to destroy the surface.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Billy Blanks, Bolo Yeung, Jalal Merhi, Bobbie Phillips

Votes: 1,546

35. Truck Turner (1974)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase

Votes: 3,590 | Gross: $0.18M

36. Enter the Matrix (2003 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The game's story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet, or just fight with lots of guns.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Mary Alice, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Don Battee

Votes: 4,112

37. Original Gangstas (1996)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a gang shoots his father, Bookman (Fred Williamson) returns to his hometown, rounds up some of his own people and begins an all-out war to restore the neighborhood to its rightful sense of justice.

Directors: Larry Cohen, Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield

Votes: 2,011 | Gross: $3.01M

38. Solo (1996)

PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A robot soldier named Solo escapes after learning he will be deprogrammed and helps a village who are under attack by rebels.

Director: Norberto Barba | Stars: Mario Van Peebles, William Sadler, Barry Corbin, Jaime Gomez

Votes: 4,551 | Gross: $4.93M

39. The Contractor (2007 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ex-C.I.A. Agent James Dial (Wesley Snipes) is asked to take out terrorist Ali Mahmud Jahar (Nikolai Sotirov), only to realize he's been set up by his former employer, Jeremy Collins (Ralph Brown).

Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown

Votes: 9,986

40. The Organization (1971)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sheree North

Votes: 2,159 | Gross: $1.50M

41. True Crime: New York City (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Mystery

Street cop Marcus Reed, a former gangster, tries to uncover who is behind the murder of his friend and mentor, Lt. Terrance Higgins.

Stars: Avery Kidd Waddell, Laurence Fishburne, Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken

Votes: 1,047

42. Ghost in the Graveyard (2019)

92 min | Action, Drama, Horror

The town of Mt. Moriah comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who comes back to haunt the teens, who witnessed her death as children, during a "game" of 'Ghost in the Graveyard.'

Director: Charlie Comparetto | Stars: Kelli Berglund, Jake Busey, Olivia Larsen, Royce Johnson

Votes: 2,082

43. Slaughter (1972)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 1,315

44. Trouble Man (1972)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out of the way.

Director: Ivan Dixon | Stars: Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite, William Smithers

Votes: 1,605

45. Black Adam Precursor (2020)

2 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

5000 years ago, living as a slave under a culture rich with wealth and magic, Teth-Adam gains the powers of Shazam and uses them against his masters. Shazam interferes, locking Adam away ... See full summary »

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Tonea Stewart

Votes: 957

46. Black Belt Jones (1974)

R | 85 min | Action

A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.

Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers, Eric Laneuville

Votes: 2,724 | Gross: $0.73M

47. Black Shampoo (1976)

R | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A promiscuous heterosexual black hairstylist and businessman has sex with his white female customers, but when he begins a relationship with his black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.

Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Joseph Carlo, Skip E. Lowe

Votes: 977

48. Hit! (1973)

R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles

Votes: 862 | Gross: $0.08M

49. Joshua (1976)

R | 90 min | Drama, Western

A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.

Director: Larry G. Spangler | Stars: Fred Williamson, Cal Bartlett, Brenda Venus, Isela Vega

Votes: 438

50. Back in Action (1994)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The sister of a former U.S. Green Beret, is involved in a love affair with a mobster, endangering seriously her life. His brother will make his best efforts to save her from her boyfriend ... See full summary »

Directors: Steve DiMarco, Paul Ziller | Stars: Billy Blanks, Roddy Piper, Bobbie Phillips, Kai Soremekun

Votes: 803