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Drop Squad (1994)
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Drop Squad (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
Style: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, biting, suspense, black cinema
Plot: black, advertising, racial issues, social activism, blaxploitation, satire, political satire, prison, kidnapping, politics, racism, missing person, life is a bitch, interracial relations, prison life, rebellion, fighting the system, discrimination, society, introspection, moral dilemma, campaign, corporate crime, political corruption, social decay ...
Time: year 1994, 90s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and disturbing films with plots about society, life is a bitch, injustice, racism, fighting the system, rebellion and african american mostly in Drama, Action and History genres. Some movies like Drop Squad: Freedom Song (2000), Rosewood (1997), 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002), Bamako (The Court) (2006), Boycott (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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95%
 7.2
 9K
Rosewood (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Style: disturbing, political, depressing, cult classic, social ...
Plot: racism, african american, small town, civil rights, black history, black, racial slur, murder, politics, massacre, blaxploitation, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1997
Place: florida, america, usa
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100%
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: african american, racism, labor union, interracial relations, injustice, fighting the system, ambition, rise to the top, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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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51%
 6.4
 304
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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48%
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Power (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, clever, political ...
Plot: politics, political corruption, campaign, manipulation, fighting the system, society, state affairs, political intrigue, dishonesty, legal, media, ambition ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 67
Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Panther (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some ...
Style: political, controversial, disturbing, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: black panthers, hip hop, racism, black, african american, conspiracy, revolution, politics, marxist, drug, civil rights movement, civil rights ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: america, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Slam (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. Written ...
Style: independent film, hood, talky, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot: prison, hip hop, gang, art, urban, bittersweet, profanity, ghetto, african american, coming of age, hip hop culture, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, college, society, journalism, fighting the system, investigation, rebellion, african american, discrimination, teacher, violent content, social relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: vermont, new england, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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White Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: missing child, young heroes, danger, youth, racism, society, family problems, parents and children, discrimination, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Animal (2005)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: prison, prison life, starting over, redemption, murder, gangster, social misfits, society, haunted by the past, parent child relationship, hopes, urban ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Heart of the Beholder (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: fighting the system, rivalry, rebellion, religions or cults, injustice, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, corporate crime, campaign ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 437
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 ⇓
37%
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 5.7
 436
Jailbait (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Randy commits a crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: prison, homosexual rape, gay, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, power relations, prison life, fighting the system, confined, going straight, murder, false accusation ...
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36%
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious, political ...
Plot: african american, civil rights movement, civil rights, racism, racial segregation, black history, fighting the system, civil disobedience, rebellion, social differences, injustice, human spirit ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1955, 1950s
Place: alabama, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Attica (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, black, serial killer, prison riot, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, society, criminal heroes, state affairs, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, usa
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35%
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 2K
Knife Fight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.
Style: semi serious, witty, cynical, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: campaign, politics, ambition, satire, political intrigue, political corruption, dishonesty, private vs public, society, state affairs, scoop, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Kitchen Toto (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Style: independent film, grindhouse, thought provoking, biting, serious ...
Plot: youth, african, independence, blaxploitation, conflict, nudity, violent content, power relations, family relations, family problems, culture clash, social differences ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 50s
Place: africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Something Is Killing Tate (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African-American man attempts to commit suicide. He survives the ordeal, but from his actions, it is obvious that "Something is Killing Tate." The ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, cerebral ...
Plot: african american, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, society, hopes, interracial relations, relationship problems, curses spells and rituals, suicide attempt, incest, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
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34%
Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: kidnapping, clinic, dystopia, journalism, terrorism, danger, life is a bitch, confined, against humanity, legal, politics, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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33%
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The F Word (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A frustrated radio DJ takes to the streets of Manhattan during the Republican National Convention after the FCC has slapped his station with $1 million in indecency fines, and popular radio personality Joe Pace (Josh Hamilton) isn't going down ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, political
Plot: politics, radio dj, fighting the system, republican, injustice, hopes, idealism, chaos, state affairs, protest, campaign, media ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 399
Riot (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories.
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: racism, black lives matter, discrimination, nypd, civil rights, hip hop, hip hop culture, die hard, drug addiction, rebellion, violent content, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: america, los angeles, south central los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Glass House (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: prison, prison gang, prison warden, suicide, young man, introspection, rebellion, criminal heroes, confined, society, criminal's revenge, fighting the system ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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