Movies like Lost in the Stars 1974

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Lost in the Stars (1974)
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Lost in the Stars (1974)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Musical from the American Film Theatre series, based on the play Cry The Beloved Country.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: murder, prison, friendship, friends, racism, human spirit, parents and children, life is a bitch, interracial relations, prison life, injustice, fighting the system, discrimination, social differences, society, down on your luck, custody, redemption, courtroom drama, social decay, hopes, dancing, death, faith, singer ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, south africa
Keyword: oldies, south african

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about society, life is a bitch, racism, interracial relations, hopes, injustice and human spirit mostly in Drama, Musical and Sport genres. Some movies like Lost in the Stars: Sarafina! (1992), Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010), Cadence (1990), Angus Buchan's Ordinary People (2012), Zoot Suit (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sarafina! (1992)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: South Africa, UK, France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A ...
Style: realistic, retro, political, contemplative, uplifting ...
Plot: teacher, broadway, children, racism, high school, dedicated educator, dance, girl, black woman, coming of age, black, black cast ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: africa, south africa
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Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: youth, interracial relations, racism, friendship, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, human spirit, hopes, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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35%
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Cadence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, time travel, black, exodus, sergeant, army life, racism, gang, military, rebellion, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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31%
Angus Buchan's Ordinary People (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot: self discovery, human spirit, family problems, hopes, society, redemption, friendship, christian, biopic, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Zoot Suit (1981)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of ...
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: racism, gang, american history, colonialism, coming of age, rock, usa history, culture clash, generation, legion, foreign legion, underworld ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981
Place: los angeles, usa
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28%
More Than Just a Game (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drama about political prisoners playing soccer at Robben Island prison, where Nelson Mandela was held.
Style: uplifting, realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious
Plot: prison, racism, fighting the system, human spirit, friendship, against the odds, prison life, injustice, sport team, life is a bitch, society, hopes ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Style: tense, thought provoking, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: discrimination, apartheid, social change, racism, prison, legal, society, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebellion, politics, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: south africa, africa
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27%
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The Exonerated (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, mockumentary
Plot: false accusation, racism, human spirit, fighting the system, injustice, courtroom drama, confined, life is a bitch, legal, society, hopes, rebellion ...
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27%
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Through the Valley (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, racism, redemption, fighting the system, protagonist as suspect, going straight, injustice, frame up, legal, society, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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27%
Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, murder, social differences, life is a bitch, society, introspection, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: north carolina, usa
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27%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
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26%
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Bopha! (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid ...
Style: independent film, thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: racism, slavery, independence, social commentary, african american, human trafficking, apartheid, family relations, police brutality, father son conflict, police station, afrikaans ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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26%
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: youth, labor, korean war, migration, quarantine, strike, union, immigrant, coming of age, family relations, bittersweet, innocence lost ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: minnesota, texas
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24%
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Freedom Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot: african american, racism, fighting the system, interracial relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, discrimination, parents and children, politics, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, usa
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Timepiece (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot: racism, christmas, faith, murder, self defense, family relations, false accusation, family life, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
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Bamako (The Court) (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mali, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, social ...
Plot: politics, fighting the system, social decay, injustice, society, young lovers, life is a bitch, dishonesty, legal investigation, legal, courtroom drama, unemployment ...
Place: africa, south africa
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Boycott (2001)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, political, talky
Plot: civil rights movement, racism, interracial relations, civil rights, racial prejudice, protest, social activism, fighting the system, human spirit, social differences, discrimination, injustice ...
Time: 50s
Place: america, alabama, usa
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Style: touching, political, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: racism, apartheid, interracial relations, politics, self discovery, priest, psychology, social justice, afrikaans, narration, murder, racial tension ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, post world war two
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mister Johnson (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been ...
Style: sad, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: worker, wife beater, world history, blaxploitation, 007, trade, colonialism, world war one, human spirit, society, misfit, boss and employee ...
Time: 1920s
Place: africa, nigeria
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21%
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Black August (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, political
Plot: prison, racism, solitary, prison life, confined, against the rules, fighting the system, injustice, militant, price of justice, life is a bitch, society ...
Place: california, usa
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21%
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1940's South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. ...
Style: powerful, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: racism, black, politics, aunt, blaxploitation, stage play, interracial relations, false accusation, urban ghetto, animal life, injustice, power relations ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa
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21%
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Black Girl (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Style: social, independent film, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: blaxploitation, black, orphan, black history, african, adoption, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, family relations, redemption, foster home ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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21%
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: civil rights, black, racism, old man, false accusation, false arrest, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, friendship, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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21%
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The Negro (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style: serious, tense, sincere, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: racism, interracial relations, uncover truth, police investigation, murder, vandalism, society, life is a bitch, law enforcement, violence, blaxploitation, discrimination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Shirley Adams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, life is a bitch, single parent, introspection, family relations, family problems, parents and children, misfit, society, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
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21%
Farewell to Harry (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Plot: redemption, friendship, factory, small town, starting over, human spirit, family relations, hopes, human nature, society, lifestyle, alcohol abuse ...
Place: washington state
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20%
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
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20%
Almost Brothers (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot: friendship, prison, social differences, jail, friends, life is a bitch, youth, gang, drug dealing, politics, society, rich and poor ...
Time: 70s, 50s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, theater, friends, couples, teenage life, rock, lifestyle, contests and competitions, performer's life, love and romance, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
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20%
Higher Ground (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: faith, belief in god, evangelical christianity, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, introspection, self discovery, redemption, human spirit, hopes, religions or cults, society ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 70s, 21st century
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20%
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