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10 Best Movies Like Brown Sugar

If you loved Brown Sugar, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Preacher's Wife

The Preacher's Wife

1996★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brown Sugar for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top...

#2
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brown Sugar for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo rela...

#3
Deliver Us from Eva

Deliver Us from Eva

2003★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brown Sugar for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eva Dandridge has been in charge of her younger sisters ever since their parents died many years ago. She is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in the affairs of her...

#4
Really Love

Really Love

2020★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brown Sugar for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student....

#5
Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

2001★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brown Sugar for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior....

#6
Love Jones

Love Jones

1997★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brown Sugar for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or ...