The Underground Railroad (2021)

 

A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.

A harrowing and heart-wrenching epic is a masterfully adapted TV series of the award-winning novel, captured in beautiful imagery with great period detail and with an extraordinarily superb cast;  a complex,often brutal, but also magical exploration of black suppression with clear pointers to present-day USA.

 

Moonlight (2016)

A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

Brilliantly written and directed study of  a young man's struggle with concepts and restraints of masculinity and identity; multi-layered and with stellar performances throughout.

Moonlight (2016)