Halle Berry

“Blue Is the Warmest Color is a French film about two women coming of age, it's about lesbian love. It's just one of those movies that once you see it, it's unforgettable. It takes its time, it breathes, it allows the characters to live. So I'm going to put that one in there.”

“Fantastic Mr. Fox. This is a movie that I love by Wes Anderson. This movie means so much to me and my family because every Christmas we watch this at least 15 times. It's good for adults, it's good for children. My daughter knows every line of Christopherson. Because of this movie, my kids have found a way to curse in the House with me because this movie introduces the idea of saying instead of saying like 'what the hell' they say 'what the cuss'.”

“Love Jones. This is a movie that has two of my dear friends in it, Larenz Tate and Nia Long. In this movie they play characters Darius and Nina and it's set in Chicago and the city is sexy, it's kind of a character of its own. It's got lots of poetry and jazz and it's about how these two characters sort of come together through that medium and all the challenges that they face. If you want a good date night and you want to experience black love at its finest, it's become a cult classic.”

“Bringing Up Baby. This is one of my favorites. This is Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hawks. This is a movie I saw over and over and over in my childhood. It has such a fast-paced comedy that is really fun to watch and I know it's very hard to do. I had so much respect for this as a kid growing up and this movie is one of the movies that really made me want to become an actor.”

“Claudine. This is a favorite of mine too. Two of my all-time favorite actors are in this movie, James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. I've been such a big fan of Diahann Carroll my whole life. She was a mentor of mine. Again, this is one of those movies where we get to see black performers sort of living their slice of life. Diahann Carroll also was Oscar nominated for this Performance and if you ask me she should have won.”

“Parasite. Also another one of my favorites. It's a movie about the haves and the have-nots and how a family sort of infiltrates a rich family. There's one scene that lives in my brain rent-free when the whole family ends up under the table of the rich family and then because the rich family is coming home and they found themselves stuck under the table and it is one of those scenes where you are just holding your breath and you're hoping that this doesn't all go awry.”

“Malcolm X. Spike Lee and Denzel always did an amazing job.”

“Love & Basketball. Another one of my favorites. Gina Prince-Bythewood directed this. As a black woman, this was huge for me to see a black woman direct a film. She was doing this before this was allowed to be done and so she was paving that way for us as black women in cinema and as directors. This dared me to dream that I could too one day direct my first film, which I did, and she was a huge inspiration for me to do that.”

“Cure. This is what I want to see. I'm a big huge fan of horror and it's a Japanese horror film that I've heard about and so I'm going to take this one because I want to see what this is about.”

“Rebecca. I have never seen this Alfred Hitchcock movie and because I love the horror genre, I also love suspense, so that's going to be good. I'm going to take that.”