Down in the Delta (1998)
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr.
Director: Maya Angelou
Synopsis:  Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi.  Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also telling them about the generations of their family, the Sinclairs, dating back to their time in slavery before the the Civil War.
 

Eve's Bayou (1997)
Starring: Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Synopsis:  The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batistef amily is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients.  One day Louisis flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not knowing that he is observed by his youngest idealistic daughter Eve, who is there by accident.  Eve can not forget the incident ...
 

The Color Purple (1985)
Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Synopsis:  This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. As the film begins she is fourteen and pregnant by her father. The balance of the film chronicles the next thirty years of Celie's life.