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- America's most popular movie stars, Denzel Washington, playing Gray Grantham, and Julia Roberts, playing Darby Shaw, having been in creasingly drawn toward one another, look dreamily into one another's eyes.
www.jstor.org/stable/23414934Crossing the Color Line: Interracial Couples in Films From ...
It’s one of the reasons why she cast British Asian actor Gemma Chan and black British actor Adrian Lester as white historical figures Bess of Hardwick and Lord Randolph, respectively.
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- A Bronx Tale. While the discussion of representation in the media is fairly new, there are a number of projects that pre-date it and still managed to tell powerful stories about interracial relationships.
- Looking. Looking ran on HBO for two seasons, and its life was tragically much too short. Luckily for fans (who can stream the show with a Max subscription) the network ended up greenlighting a Looking movie to wrap up the story.
- The Big Sick. Michael Showalter's The Big Sick hit theaters back in 2017, and transformed Kumail Nanjiani from a character actor to a bonafide leading man.
- Girls. This one might not be what folks expected, but it's a romantic plot point that stuck with me in the years since it aired. Back in Season 2 of HBO's coming-of-age comedy Girls, Lena Dunham's protagonist Hannah briefly dates Sandy, played by the incomparable Donald Glover.
The film features a romantic relationship, not just partnering, between people of different races. The film's inclusion or casting of interracial romance is not incidental. The film is not about romance between species or fictional races (e.g. Star Trek, The Twilight Saga, Shrek, The Little Mermaid). Title. Director.
- Jason's Lyric
- Brown Sugar
- Moonlight
- Fences
- The Best Man
- Poetic Justice
- Claudine
- Mahogany
- Just Wright
- The Color Purple
The classic 1994 film, Jason's Lyric, is a movie that shows the nuance of Black love in many examples. Jason (Allen Payne) dreams of having a better life and loves his family deeply. He works as a TV salesman trying his best to help his mother and steer his recently incarcerated brother Joshua (Bokeem Woodbine) onto the right path. In his attempts ...
Sometimes the purest forms of romantic love grow from friendships. Brown Sugarexplores the evolving relationship of childhood friends Sidney (Sanna Lathan), a thriving music editor always on the hunt for a good hip-hop centered story and Dre (Taye Diggs), who's starting to feel unfulfilled as a music executive. Both come to realize that their true ...
The Oscar-winning film Moonlightis proof that it's vital to diverse representations of different Black lifestyles and relationships onscreen, encouraging open conversation about Black male sexuality.
Fences is a movie that disrupts the way we look at Black fatherhood and the role it plays in the development of a young Black man's personal growth. Denzel Washington plays a father who once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball playe, but became very bitter and takes his frustrations out on his son (Jovan Adepo). Through the intense portraya...
Two best friends (Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut) who've gone through practically everything in life together find out that there is a huge secret that will divide their bond. This film shows the how close Black male friendships can stand life's trials.
Poetic Justice is all about letting love back into your life after grieving a loss. Justice (Janet Jackson) writes poetry to deal with the pain of the death of her boyfriend. Then Justice meets Lucky (Tupac Shakur) and grows close to him, but she soon begins to question the matters of her heart and tries to figure out if she is open to love again.
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a mother of six who is forced to hide her new lover in order to keep her welfare benefits. Matters get even more complicated when her children oppose her new relationship, her daughter gets pregnant, and she's soon faced with a marriage proposal. Claudine takes on some very tough subjects in the form of comedy to show ...
Mahoganyis a tale of ambition, love, and feeling conflicted by the two. Diana Ross plays a woman torn between following the dreams she's had for most of her life and supporting the man she's in love with. In the movie, a lot of her choices lead to heavy consequences that she can not ignore.
Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist who ultimately falls in love with a basketball player client (Common), and Just Wrightshatters society's assumption that only a certain type of woman is worthy of love.
The Color Purpleis still one of the most important movies to display how deep Black sisterhood and friendship can run. In the '40s, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) undergoes personal evolution in the midst of dealing with an abusive husband (Danny Glover), racism, and the loss of her children. She blossoms into a stronger person through the help of other w...
- 31 Period Films Showing Lesbians and Bi Women in Love. Who knows if it's the repression, the fetish costumes that include corsets and hosiery, or simply the chance to tell a story of early forbidden love, but Hollywood and plenty of independent producers love to set stories about queer women in the past.
- Olivia (1951) Based on Dorothy Bussy's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, director Jacqueline Audry's Olivia is set in a young women's finishing school that is also a hotbed of desire.
- The Bostonians (1984) The inimitable Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians, a suffragette who becomes romantically entangled with Verena (Madeleine Potter), a rising star and speaker in the turn-of-the-century feminist movement.
- Desert Hearts (1985) One of the most beloved and acclaimed films about queer women of all time, Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts was ahead of its time even if it was set in the late '50s.
Jun 12, 2017 · Hollywood's long history of not putting interracial romance on-screen goes all the way back to the Hays Code, which prohibited the depiction of "sex relationships between the white and black...
Nov 10, 2016 · But there are no big love scenes in the film, and it “shows Hollywood’s fear of a black man with a white woman,” says Donald Bogle, author of “Elizabeth and Michael: The Queen of Hollywood ...
