My black co-worker asked me today to reccomend him a white people movie, and he'd give me a black people movie.

At first I reccomended Live Die Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow) then remembered Wes Anderson exists and said anything by him maybe.

He reccomended Salt and The Tourist. I intend to watch them on the weekend.

I am not really sure what is "white" and "black" movies, but I was born in Vilnius, Lithuania myself, with "white" skin color if that makes sense.
In this case, I had around 30 titles in the mind for the "white", but for some reason, the first 5 that I recalled and imagined was:
- Run Lola Run (1998);
- Suicide Room (2011);
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2012);
- The Book Thief (2013);
- Head Full of Honey" (2018);

For a white movie, I'd recommend Office Space from 1999. It's one of my all time favorites

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I think Titanic is probably the whitest movie ever made. couldn't tell you what a black movie would be.

To me, the most white people movie ever is Marley and Me...As for adult movies, maybe Eyes Wide Shut?

Oh that's pretty damn white.

A white movie: The Men Who Stare at Goats

A black movie: Green Book

I'm pretty sure Fight Club is a white movie, and it's actually good, or I' maybe m just that white.

Braveheart is about as white as it gets.

Uh oh. I'm starting to notice that they're ALL white movies. It's almost as if the entire industry has been dominated by a single voice since it's inception. 🤔

White Chicks. Then you’ve got both bases covered.

Salt and tourists are excellent movies not sure how those fall under black peoples movies though

White: Harold and Maude.
Black: I Love Boosters.

Yeah. I thought it was bizarre when some people complained about a black actor playing the little mermaid. We could list Americans of northern European ancestry playing almost every other race, ethnicity and nationality without anyone blinking an eye and we could do it for days without being close to a complete list.

The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whitest feeling movie I've seen.

Any Medea movie?

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Adjective order matters.

Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick's attempt at exposing the Epstein Class. Look up the history on the castle where they filmed it.

You call the scottish rednecks "white"??

/s

white men can't jump

vampire in brooklin

friday

deliverance

a time to kill

pootie tang

So white it’s British

Sorry To Bother You is an amazing movie with a scene that will make any white person uncomfortable (in a good way). Bonkers cast too.

Hackers, The Matrix, Ferris Bueller, Risky Business

Bonus: Abre los Ojos is the Spanish precursor of Vanilla Sky

The whitest film I've ever seen is Christopher Guest's Best in Show (2000).

I don't think you can outdo John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood (1991), but I think the most universally agreed upon movie that black people enjoy is actually Love and Basketball (2000).

I'd argue that A Mighty Wind is even whiter.

I would argue the yuppie couple alone puts Best in Show as the whiter movie

White: The LOTR original trilogy

Black: Coming to America, They Cloned Tyrone, Get Out (gave 3 movies since the trilogy is technically 3 movies)

Bonus

Asian: Kung Fu Hustle, Old Boy (very dark thriller warning), Spirited Away

Hispanic: Instructions Not Included, Coco, Pan's Labyrinth

Adjective order matters

Literally everyone here, including you, knew what OP said, so clearly it doesn't.

White people movie: Cruel Intentions (incredibly privileged and wealthy people being horrible to each other for no reason other than they can)

Black people movie: His House (South Sudanese refugees adapting to their new lives in England experiencing racism and hostility, oh and their house is haunted)

English, MF, do you speak it?!

I love that movie so fucking much. It saddens me that I will never again experience the thrill of watching it with a white person (many white people in fact) in a movie theatre. I'm not sure I'd want to because it made me feel physically ill but what a thrill.

It's very white technically (cast), but its various messages speak more to class struggle and patriarchy which affect all the races, so I personally wouldn't consider it a "white movie" in the same sense as some others in this thread.

Malcom X?

Well, it depends.

Blacula

Black Dynamite

Which The Tourist?

Probably not the Johnny Depp movie.

Live Die Repeat is Japanese though, I don't get the "whiteness" in it, personally. IMO, some great "white people" movies, understood as Anglo-Saxon/Germanic/Nordic (else I'd have to include Spanish, French and Italian which certainly have a very different vibe), could be "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "In Bruges" or "Master and Commander".

I never got any "antipatriarchal" vibes from Fight Club, maybe I should watch it again, lol. It did feel very "nihilistic anger and sadness that turns into violence", it made me feel like I was listening to Papa Roach or Evanescence (which are as white as art can get, and I enjoy both just for the record, I had the CDs and everything!).

White movie: The Princess Bride

Black movie: Poetic Justice. Also, since the holidays are coming up, The Holiday and The Best Man.

Also, your coworker likes Angelina Jolie and that's all their picks mean. It's like they didn't even understand the question

Die Hard and Caddyshack come to mind as white people movies.

Fight Club at its core is about how society fails to provide men a safety net for their emotions / personal development and instead pushes them to things like consumerism and unrealistic expectations of masculinity. This is what triggers the narrator to become nihilistic, angry, and eventually violent. The reason society is the way it is towards men is because it was set up that way by the patriarchy to keep them in their societal place and so that capitalism can keep capitalizing.

There's lots of articles about it (and how its so often misunderstood). I'd also recommend the book, as the different ending drives the point home in a different way imo.

Interesting point about evanecessence (JFC what a word to spell). I get more depression rather than anger from them lol

I actually forgot that I said Die Hard first but he'd seen it. 😂 Caddyshack is I think the best suggestion so far!

Oh god this coworker is a lot of fun but he kinda way off in right-field most of the time mentally.

You're so right. I feel like Marley and me so perfectly encapsulates the feeling of the pre-2008 recession white middle-class psyche.

Dolemite or probably anything Tyler Perry

I've gotten that answer a lot in person too. I totally agree. 😂

I agree with everything in your first paragraph up until the last sentence! But I don't wanna start a long argument (which happens to me often... I'm starting to think I'm the reason 🙃) and hijack the thread, if that's okay. I'll definitely read the lit hub article though, and thanks for the comprehensive reply. 👍

Yep, that one.