1. Beloved (1998)
The film is based on Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel of the same name. Sethe, kills her daughter and tries to kill her other three children when a posse arrives in Ohio to return them to Sweet Home, the plantation in Kentucky from which Sethe had recently fled. The daughter, Beloved, returns years later to haunt the house in which she was killed, Sethe’s home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati.
2. The Color Purple (1985)
It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. The film is about young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems faced by African-American women during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism. The character Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions Nettie and Shug.