Movies like The Help
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The Help (2011)
490K
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 struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Style:
touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good, emotional, captivating, period piece, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night, adult
Plot:
racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues, social relations, african american, storytelling, strong female lead, blacks and whites, hopes, society, ambitious, interracial relations, black woman, newspaper columnist, exploitation, southern belle ...
Time:
60s, 2010s, year 2011, 50s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa, mississippi river, united states ...
Keyword:
feminist film, american, americana, educational film, challenge
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, inspirational and touching films with plots about racism, african american, interracial relations, civil rights, society, black and friendship mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Help: Hidden Figures (2016), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), The Color Purple (1985), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Blind Side (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
Style:
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african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
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Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In ...
Style:
political, epic, captivating, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style:
motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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75%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Duration: 116 min.
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