Movies like Follow Me Home

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Follow Me Home (1996)
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Follow Me Home (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black woman. Together, these four men and one woman encounter racism, sexism, internal conflicts, and finally redemption as they discover their common humanity and their internal ability to conquer the societal ills that effect them all.
Style: spiritual, independent film
Plot: drug addiction, graffiti, racism, native, painter, artist, kidnapping, feminism, african american, spirituality, interracial relations, enlightenment, car accident, spiritualism, little girl, radical, eagle, sexism, redemption, introspection, illiteracy, racial relations, death of daughter, collaboration, emancipation ...

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Most similar movies to Follow Me Home

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and sincere films with plots about racism, society, interracial relations, life is a bitch, african american, family relations and native mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Follow Me Home: Naturally Native (1998), Fish Hawk (1979), Where the Spirit Lives (1989), Juanita (2019), La Mission (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Naturally Native (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity ...
Style: independent film
Plot: slice of life, american indian, native, indians, indigenous people, racism, cosmetics, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, native american, indigenous
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95%
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Fish Hawk (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: boy, drug addiction, native, dog, friendship, nature, bear, redemption, sadness, farm, wilderness, dignity ...
Time: year 1979, turn of the century
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93%
Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be ...
Plot: native american, native, kidnapping, genocide, child abuse, indians, american indian, historical event, indigenous people, boarding school, school, culture clash ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Juanita (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female nudity, sex, culture clash, love and romance, family relations, life is a bitch, couples, friendship, parents and children, society, escapades, hopes ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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La Mission (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, gays and lesbians, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, family problems, redemption, social differences, gay son, estrangement, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
American Violet (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma, and rejects the plea-bargain that would free her from jail, but ...
Style: serious, rough, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: african american, false accusation, racism, injustice, testimony, courtroom drama, black, urban ghetto, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, legal, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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79%
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their ...
Plot: native american, native, indigenous people, indians, american indian, nature, injustice, protest, massacre, mine, u.s. government, voice over narration ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Elijah (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: The story of Elijah Harper.....
Plot: native american, native, ethnicity, native american reservation, racism, indian reservation, racial slur, indigenous, part animation
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74%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Holiday Heart (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter.
Style: captivating, black cinema, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbtq, drag queen, gay parent, drug addiction, fatherhood, christmas, gay father, lgbt, family relations, female impersonator, male female relationship, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Down in the Delta (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style: touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, african american, storytelling, drug addiction, solace, black girl, anti racism, racism ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sad
Audience: kids
Plot: painter, adoptive mother, foster home, female artist, foster child, sculptor, painting, drawing, adoption, adoptive mother adopted son relationship, family problems, changing lives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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And So It Is (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Plot: revenge, rape, indigenous people, racism, native, community, rape and revenge, native american, businessman, husband, woman, rural setting ...
Place: bolivia
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58%
The Color Of Love: Jacey's Story (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Set in a small town in the South, movie centers on Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow (Rowlands), whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-law she never met die in a car crash. When she visits her granddaughter ...
Style: captivating
Plot: racism, interracial relations, child custody, interracial adoption, grandfather grandson relationship, social problems, grandmother grandson relationship, grandparent and grandchild, social issues, custody, youth, birthday party ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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, biting, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: black, blaxploitation, racial issues, social activism, advertising, satire, political satire, corporate crime, religions or cults, campaign, politics, rebellion ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
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54%
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30 Miles (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: interracial relations, desert, racism, mind game, murder, on the road, racial relations, driving, down on your luck, hollywood, wedding, deadly ...
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Winter in the Blood (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style: contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: native american, introspection, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, hung over, indigenous people, native, tribe, american indian, indians, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style: political, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, native, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, love and romance, youth, misfit, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
47%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
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: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: racism, african american, blaxploitation, youth, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet, dignity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Color of Courage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose family, the McGhees, has moved into a previously all-white neighborhood. A McGhee granddaughter, ...
Style: inspirational
Plot: civil rights, racism, blaxploitation, female bonding, civil rights movement, interracial relations, neighbor, african american, segregation, supreme court
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Resting Place (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help ...
Style: sincere, realistic, talky, serious
Plot: vietnam war, racism, parents and children, interracial relations, military, military life, investigation, mysterious death, patriot, death of son, racial segregation, society ...
Time: year 1986, year 1972, 70s
Place: asia, vietnam, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Black Cloud (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, colorful ...
Plot: native american, boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, native, hopes, human spirit, society, self discovery, racism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Family That Preys (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter Andrea graduated in Economic Science and works in a construction corporation while her sister Pam ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, crying ...
Plot: friendship, family relations, family business, family life, working class, black, friends, couples, human nature, dishonesty, rivalry, workplace intrigue ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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39%
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: racism, black, african american, dentist, interracial relations, discrimination, biopic, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle, journalism, society ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Older Than America (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: genocide, native american, against humanity, dishonesty, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, clergy, family relations, priest, native, strong female lead, american indian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Drunks (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style: independent film, realistic, talky, spiritual, serious ...
Plot: alcoholic, drug addiction, drug, addiction, alcohol abuse, drinking, recovery, self discovery, redemption, drug abuse, drug addict, heroin ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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