Movies like Cry, the Beloved Country
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
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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, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, independent film, crime drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apartheid, racism, interracial relations, politics, self discovery, racial tension, psychology, racial discrimination, priest, social justice, third world, afrikaans, narration, murder, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, introspection, city life, estrangement, courtroom drama, dishonesty, hopes, prison ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1946, post world war two, 19th century, 40s
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and emotional films with plots about society, life is a bitch, racism, interracial relations, hopes, redemption and injustice mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Cry, the Beloved Country: Color of Justice (1997), A Dry White Season (1989), Red Dust (2004), Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010), Conviction (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four young black men kill a white woman, the D.A. is very cautious in how to proceed...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, interracial relations, racism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style:
talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, lawyer, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, children, courtroom, freedom, chess, social commentary ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place:
south africa, africa, poland, canada, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, cult classic ...
Plot:
apartheid, missing person, politics, courtroom drama, state affairs, rivalry, haunted by the past, injustice, life is a bitch, law enforcement, society, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
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, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, hopes, friendship, racism, interracial relations, human spirit, redemption, family problems, dysfunctional family, social decay, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of Carl Upchurch who experiences jail as a young adult. While in prison, a compassionate teacher helps turn his life around through education and religion. He in turn is inspired to help other troubled youths.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
prison, redemption, criminal heroes, prison life, hopes, gang, life is a bitch, biopic, ghetto, foul language, true crime, spiritual awakening ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, History
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:
contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
apartheid, racism, prison, discrimination, house arrest, social change, biopic, righting the wronged, injustice, politics, rebellion, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Cameroon
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, realistic, semi autobiographical, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, colonialism, interracial relations, youth, coming of age, culture clash, imperialism, farm, woman, master servant relationship, hyena, priest ...
Time:
1950s, year 1988, 80s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, france, paris france
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, legal, death sentence, courtroom, ku klux klan, murder, prison, anti semitism, haunted by the past, politics, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1967, year 1996
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
53%
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284
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Style:
historical drama, political, inspirational, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
apartheid, racial segregation, biopic, racial injustice, prison, civil rights, activism, legacy, human rights, resilience, leadership, reconciliation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
53%
583
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, racial discrimination, family relations, self defense, murder, family life, false accusation, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, burned at the stake, african american, trafficking, human trafficking, social commentary, independence, slavery, apartheid, family relations, afrikaans, father son conflict ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Liberal activist lawyer Jedediah alienated daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto ...
Style:
suspense, serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, legal, court, father daughter relationship, father daughter conflict, parents and children, uncover truth, hopes, family relations, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, violence, vengeance, friendship, heroes, redemption ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in ...
Style:
suspense, period piece, emotional, depressing, dark ...
Plot:
prison, courtroom, alcatraz, lawyer, court, courtroom drama, legal, justice, murder, escape attempt, corporal punishment, torture ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1941, 20th century, year 1938
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
52%
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:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, social ...
Plot:
young lovers, politics, fighting the system, social decay, injustice, legal investigation, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, legal, unemployment, racism ...
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
52%
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:
thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, introspection, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style:
thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
racism, african american, racial discrimination, youth, blaxploitation, family relations, injustice, society, life is a bitch, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
51%
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, black, politics, passion, aunt, blaxploitation, racial discrimination, stage play, false accusation, interracial relations, urban ghetto life, wrongfully committed ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK, France, South Africa, 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, political, retro, contemplative, uplifting ...
Plot:
teacher, children, broadway, renaissance, racism, high school, dedicated educator, dance, coming of age, girl, black history, high school teacher ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
51%
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:
realistic, serious
Plot:
racism, murder, injustice, friends, hopes, life is a bitch, redemption, human spirit, fighting the system, society, friendship, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, alternate history, alternate reality, kidnapping, alternate universe, society, vengeance, black, racial discrimination, prejudice, racial tension, distopia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, courtroom, courtroom drama, price of justice, rebellion, rivalry, society, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, courtroom, american civil war, lawyer, interracial relations, military life, false accusation, discrimination, injustice, power relations, rebellion ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 90s
Place:
west point
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. ...
Style:
touching, intense, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
boxing, bullying, friendship, apartheid, hopes, youth, racism, world war two, discrimination, injustice, orphan, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, intercultural, suspense ...
Plot:
jury, courtroom drama, racism, court case, hopes, murder, life is a bitch, family relations, teenage life, social differences, heroes, society ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
russia, soviet union, chechnya, caucasus
Similarity:
50%
479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Style:
political, independent film, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, black, betrayal, snitch, music and dance, african, racial issues, betrayal by friend, reward, death of best friend, civil rights movement, revenge killing ...
Time:
60s, 1930s
Place:
ireland, cleveland ohio, africa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, rough
Plot:
politics, idealism, ambition, activist, state affairs, hopes, political unrest, moral dilemma, society, leadership, feminism, black woman ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
50%
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:
realistic, serious, emotional, art house, christian film ...
Plot:
self discovery, family problems, redemption, hopes, society, friendship, biopic, christian, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of ...
Style:
political, depressing, serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
preschool
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, pedophilia, law, trial, criminal justice, journalism, politics, gender, pedophile, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tahiti, los angeles, california
Similarity:
50%
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