Love Stories from the African Diaspora
Here are some of our picks for inclusive Black love stories in film and media. We hope you enjoy these tender love stories and beautiful depictions.

The Kanasugi gang, which had made its living from construction and street vending, had lost power to the IT-savvy Naito gang. Now, all that remained was the debt owed to the Naito gang and the wife of the gang leader, Kanasugi, Tatsuko. The couple reluctantly began preparing to flee, but were discovered by the Naito gang. Two years later, Tatsuko, having repaid her debt with her body, was dismissed by the Naito gang and went to live with her parents...
Here are some of our picks for inclusive Black love stories in film and media. We hope you enjoy these tender love stories and beautiful depictions.
An enchanted school for young heroes and villains brings the battle between good and evil in this fantasy movie.
Canvas illustrates the story of a grandfather who, after suffering the loss of his beloved, struggles to reclaim his love for painting.
Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest.
A science fiction movie brings a strong diverse cast and adventure in outer space.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.