Movies like The Color Purple 1985

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The Color Purple (1985)
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad, sincere, emotional, compassionate, period piece, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq, human spirit, racial discrimination, dysfunctional family, black, racism, lgbt, poverty, lesbian, survival, black history, feminist, sister sister relationship, childbirth ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s, 1910s, 1900s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, georgia, tennessee
Keyword: feminist film, gangsters, american, pants, jewish, music video, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, realistic and sincere films with plots about family relations, society, life is a bitch, african american, hopes, parents and children and friendship mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Color Purple: The Help (2011), Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), Precious (2009), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Butler (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style: touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place: mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, gambling, marriage, jealousy, love, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, black, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: florida
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Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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100%
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
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85%
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The Butler (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Style: touching, inspirational, political, emotional, factual ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: racism, civil rights, president, u.s. president, black history, butler, african american, injustice, father son relationship, white house, biopic, civil rights movement ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 70s, 2010s, 60s ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, tennessee, america, indiana ...
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100%
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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85%
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Nightjohn (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Charles Burnett directs this movie about John, a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: racism, slave, slavery, teaching, plantation, american civil war, human exploitation, civil rights, blaxploitation, racial issues, black, american history ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Philadelphia (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style: touching, sad, tear jerker, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: aids, courtroom drama, lawyer, hiv, gay, lgbt, discrimination, lawsuit, medical, courtroom, trial, judiciary ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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100%
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style: melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place: iowa, texas, usa
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100%
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Marvin's Room (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, dysfunctional family, estrangement, leukemia, family drama, cancer, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
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Selma (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights ...
Style: political, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: racism, civil rights, politics, civil rights movement, african american, justice, biopic, racial discrimination, discrimination, idealism, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time: 60s, year 2014, 20th century, 2010s, year 1964 ...
Place: alabama, indiana, usa, southern usa, birmingham alabama ...
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The Doctor (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: hospital, medical, cancer, medicine, doctor, redemption, health, doctors and patients, coldhearted, nurse, tumor, brain tumor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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My Life (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Style: inspirational, independent film, touching, realistic, political ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, civil rights, segregation, african american, friendship, women, ku klux klan, race issues, social commentary, black, racial segregation, boycott ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955, 20th century, 50s
Place: alabama, america, usa, southern usa
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67%
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, america, africa
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Speak (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Desert Bloom (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, desert, dysfunctional family, youth, bittersweet, single parent, introspection, crumbling marriage, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, bad father ...
Time: 1950s, year 1986, 50s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
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The War (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, vietnam war, coming of age, childhood, father son relationship, child, friendship, boy, children, war, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 1900s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: vietnam, mississippi, usa, asia
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100%
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, independent film, road movie ...
Plot: aging, dysfunctional family, small town, redemption, journey, on the road, old age, senior citizen, bus, escape, homecoming, cat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, houston texas
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100%
An American Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place: hungary, california, europe, austria, usa ...
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100%
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Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
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Story: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: black, rape, women of color, lgbtq, strong female lead, anti racism, lgbt, black cast, blaxploitation, lesbian, sexual abuse, african ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s
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36%
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...
Style: black and white, retro, aesthetic, existential, social ...
Plot: racism, african american, poverty, racial segregation, civil rights, black, black history, working class family, race issues, family relations, segregation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, nigeria, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Everlasting Moments (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, abusive husband, female artist, photographer, photography, photograph, woman, jail, unrequited love, family problems, artist ...
Time: 1900s, year 2008, 1910s
Place: europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
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34%
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Fences (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Style: emotional, depressing, talky, stylized, motivational ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: african american, racism, working class, violent, twists and turns, black, brutality, husband wife relationship, greed, character study, social commentary, life ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, indiana, usa
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33%
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: witchcraft, curse, coming of age, dysfunctional family, all black cast, black, implied incest, black history, african american, infidelity, redemption, women of color ...
Time: year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, indiana, usa, detroit
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33%
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