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Manderlay (2005)
26K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, philosophical, psychological, art house, political, controversial, erotic, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, slavery, plantation, starvation, gangster, blacks and whites, fighting the system, flashback, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, class struggle, social differences, righting the wronged, liberal, injustice, discrimination, society, understanding, african american, dishonesty, owner, politics, guilt, slave, art ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 20th century, 30s
Place:
america, usa, southern usa, alabama, africa, united states of america, american
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Most similar movies to Manderlay
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and sincere films with plots about society, life is a bitch, racism, interracial relations, injustice, blaxploitation and racial discrimination mostly in Drama, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like Manderlay: Dogville (2003), Antichrist (2009), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Dragonard (1988), Freedom Song (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
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art house, psychological, bleak, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
rape, society, morality, twists and turns, victim, female protagonist, vengeance, gangster, rocky mountains, sex scene, making love, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, future, near future, year 2004 ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
144K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, controversy, fear, violence, woods, female nudity, nudity, black magic, male nudity ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, sexuality, lust, sex addict, explicit sex, sexual relations, erection, nymphomaniac, sexual exploration, sexual perversion, erotica, sex scene ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
363
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
corporal punishment, sugarcane, sex scene, female nudity, human exploitation, slave trade, adultery, slavery, punishment, caribbean sea, beefcake, sexploitation ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
caribbean, fictional island, jamaica, south africa
Similarity:
100%
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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, society, hopes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa
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473
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, realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot:
racism, slave, slave trade, slavery, illiteracy, teaching, plantation, racial discrimination, black slave, american civil war, racial issues, blaxploitation ...
Time:
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Place:
america
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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, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
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50%
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:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, UK, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style:
disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
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Similarity:
24%
892
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana, Burkina Faso, UK, Germany, Ethiopia, Jamaica
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the ...
Style:
inspirational, independent film, captivating, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
slavery, sexual abuse, african, black, afrofuturism, slave trade, slave trader, racism, sex crime, racial issues, blaxploitation, racial discrimination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, west africa, west indies
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Cameroon
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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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:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, politics, injustice, culture clash, state affairs, vigilantism, social decay, discrimination, police corruption, african american, blaxploitation, black ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, tense, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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23%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
23%
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Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, experimental, surreal, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
slave trade, heroes, social differences, slavery, politics, heroic mission, state affairs, society, injustice, mother son relationship, slave, african ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
africa, france, europe, west africa
Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
racism, african american, civil rights, racial issues, racial discrimination, martin luther king, blaxploitation, black, interracial relations, social decay, discrimination, youth ...
Time:
60s, year 1965
Place:
alabama, america, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, politics, identity crisis, fascism, violence spree, anger ...
Time:
year 2001, y2k, 60s, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
political, controversial, disturbing, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot:
black panthers, hip hop, racism, african american, black, conspiracy, revolution, marxist, politics, civil rights movement, civil rights, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Style:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
racism, jazz, renaissance, racial injustice, american history, racial discrimination, trial, female nudity, friendship, murder, anarchist, unrequited love ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
racism, slavery, family relations, immigrant, society, obsessive quest, family tradition, elderly, family history, interracial relations, ancestry, widow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south carolina, harlem, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
civil rights, racism, african american, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, racial segregation, children, american south, abuse, interracial relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
20%
418
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, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
racism, die hard, black lives matter, discrimination, hip hop culture, hip hop, nypd, civil rights, drug addiction, rebellion, violent content, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
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Place:
south central los angeles, america, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Similarity:
20%
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, non-linear, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
civil rights, african american, racism, slavery, black, plantation, discrimination, journalism, slave trade, blaxploitation, female protagonist, black history ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1860s, 1940s, 1870s ...
Place:
america, southern usa, louisiana, usa, ohio ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot:
old man, black, civil rights, racism, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, fighting the system, legal, society, false arrest, false accusation, interracial relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
19%
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