List of films about black girlhood

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)
 * Black Girl (1972)
 * Cooley High (1975)

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)

2000-2009

 * Bring It On (2000)
 * Love & Basketball (2000)
 * Our Song (2000)
 * The Cheetah Girls (2003)
 * Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
 * Half Nelson (2006)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * For Ahkeem (2017)
 * I Am Not a Witch (2017)
 * Everything, Everything (2017)
 * Roxanne, Roxanne (2017)
 * Deidra & Laney Rob A Train (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)
 * Rocks (2019)
 * Premature (2019)
 * Selah and the Spades (2019)
 * See You Yesterday (2019)
 * The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
 * Atlantics (2019)

2020s

 * Miss Juneteenth (2020)
 * Cuties (2020)
 * Pillars (2020)
 * Tahara (2020)
 * On The Come Up (2022)
 * Wendell & Wild (2022)
 * Darby and the Dead (2022)
 * Hawa (2022)
 * All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)