Movies like A Raisin in the Sun
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...
Style:
black and white, retro, social, existential, aesthetic, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious ...
Plot:
racism, african american, poverty, racial segregation, black, civil rights, black history, working class family, race issues, family relations, segregation, dysfunctional family, racial prejudice, family problems, money, moving, prejudice, black cast, housewife, blues, legal, grief, existentialism, democracy, aging ...
Time:
year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, africa, usa, nigeria, illinois
Keyword:
gangsters, dreams
Most similar movies to A Raisin in the Sun
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about african american, society, racism, black, life is a bitch, blaxploitation and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Raisin in the Sun: White Water (2015), Black Girl (1972), Killer of Sheep (1978), Fences (2016), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Style:
social, independent film, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, black, orphan, black history, african, adoption, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, family relations, redemption, foster home ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style:
independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
ghetto, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children, family life, couple relations, family problems, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
117K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Style:
emotional, depressing, talky, stylized, motivational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
african american, racism, working class, violent, twists and turns, black, brutality, husband wife relationship, greed, character study, social commentary, life ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style:
sentimental, touching, compassionate, intense, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
interracial relations, racism, culture clash, miscegenation, african american, social commentary, interracial marriage, doctor, liberal, prejudice, widower, interracial love ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, america, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Movies similar to The Help
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:
sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time:
year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time:
60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Style:
inspirational, independent film, touching, realistic, political ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
racism, civil rights, segregation, african american, friendship, women, ku klux klan, race issues, social commentary, black, racial segregation, boycott ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955, 20th century, 50s
Place:
alabama, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, sincere ...
Plot:
slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, interracial, youth, suburbs, social justice, interracial relations, family relations, racial segregation ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998
Place:
virginia, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior ...
Style:
black and white, christian film, touching, retro, social ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
desert, religion, nun, catholic, farm, friendship, literary, faith, christian, african american, courage, church ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 50s
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Style:
black and white, talky, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
blindness, interracial relations, interracial romance, racism, disability, friendship, racial prejudice, tolerance, blind character, prostitute, music box, black man white woman relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style:
realistic, talky, hood, stylized, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
heat wave, hip hop, police brutality, pizzeria, urban ghetto life, racism, pizza, ghetto, prejudice, african american, black, social commentary ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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To Kill a Mockingbird similar movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, ...
Style:
aesthetic, existential, independent film, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot:
coming of age, racism, black, murder, racial issues, blaxploitation, boy, social justice, black lives matter, african, interracial, family relations ...
Time:
1920s, year 1969
Place:
kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
50%
119K
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:
racism, civil rights, president, u.s. president, black history, butler, african american, injustice, father son relationship, white house, biopic, civil rights movement ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 70s, 2010s, 60s ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, tennessee, america, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot:
going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, uplifting, independent film, compassionate ...
Plot:
racism, civil rights, discrimination, interracial relations, racial segregation, social differences, injustice, life is a bitch, youth, society, family life, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
mississippi, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Style:
detective, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
racism, small town, prejudice, police, murder, racial tension, african american, civil rights, racial slur, deep south, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
touching, sincere, rough, emotional, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, human nature, society, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Style:
political, independent film, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
trial, old woman, interracial relations, social relations, injustice, family problems, legal, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, idealism, society, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Style:
independent film, political, social, black and white, aesthetic ...
Plot:
african american, black, discrimination, drug addiction, blaxploitation, american south, racial slur, racism, love, social justice, social change, racial issues ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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116K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style:
bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, controversial ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial romance, architect, african american, racism, society, adultery, drug addiction, love affair, prejudice, hip hop, relationships, black ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, africa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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:
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Place:
south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
329K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style:
serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time:
year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
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florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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