Movies like The Summer of Ben Tyler

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The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996)
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The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
Plot: racism, racial segregation, lawyer, african american, interracial relations, segregation, conscience, political unrest, controversy, confrontation, mental retardation
Time: 1940s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and independent film films with plots about interracial relations, african american, racism, society, racist, blaxploitation and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Summer of Ben Tyler: The Color of Courage (1998), Jim Shoe (2023), The Sky Is Gray (1980), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Crisis at Central High (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
 7.4
 44
Jim Shoe (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After one of the founding partners at a prestigious Chicago law firm suddenly dies, his co-founding partner, the rather eccentric Richard Hedd is charged with deciding who will become the next partner. Planning to take six months off sailing around ...
Plot: lawyer, interracial relations, privilege, racial relations, alzheimer's disease
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68%
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 ⇓
67%
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: racism, friendship, elderly, master and servant, civil rights, old age, african american, racial segregation, chauffeur, prejudice, stereotypes, black ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Crisis at Central High (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Story of the federally-ordered integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Plot: civil rights, african american, blaxploitation, racial tension, racism, racial prejudice, racist, racial segregation, racial discrimination, civil rights movement, interracial relations, teacher ...
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
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%
 5.9
 174
Showing Roots (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, semi serious, satirical
Plot: women, interracial friendship, interracial relations, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, self discovery, small town life, ambitious woman, racial prejudice, society, racial issues, satire ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Jeremy's Family Reunion (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Film front Abel Garcia
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, interracial relations, black cast, african american, lawyer, party
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Ragtime (1981)
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: clever, bleak, cult classic, independent film, controversial ...
Plot: racism, jazz, fighting the system, racial injustice, american history, trial, female nudity, friendship, murder, anarchist, piano, pianist ...
Time: year 1981, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, eastern europe, harlem, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.6
 892
Good Fences (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: racism, family relations, ambition, against the odds, lifestyle, rise to the top, dysfunctional family, culture clash, social differences, racial prejudice, family problems, injustice ...
Time: 70s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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 ⇓
43%
 6.4
 638
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%
 6.4
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Shadrach (1998)
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 ⇓
42%
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: erotica, african american, farm, family relations, racism, interracial relations, small town, racial segregation, social relations, battles, parents and children, culture clash ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: georgia, usa, louisiana, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Free, White and 21 (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: civil rights, racist, interracial relations, jury, courtroom, rape, segregation, false accusation, businessman, trial, cross cultural relations, criminal ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, adolescence, teenager, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, sex, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Gone Are the Days! (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To ...
Style: independent film
Plot: black, blaxploitation, plantation, sheriff, impersonation, black american, fraud, african american, maid, preacher, deputy, racism ...
Time: year 1963
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Mixing Nia (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ad agency copywriter, ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ghetto kids, resigns from her job and goes searching for her racial identity.
Style: independent film
Plot: women of color, interracial relations, racial issues, interracial, interracial sex, deception, affair, african american, lust, infidelity, jealousy, advertising ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Kevin Hart highlights the fascinating contributions of black history's unsung heroes in this entertaining -- and educational -- comedy special.
Style: funny, entertaining, touching, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: african american, black man, racial segregation, interracial relations, black american, african american man, racism, black stereotype, racist, righting the wronged, ethnic humor, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 3K
Carbon Copy (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
Style: humorous, intelligent, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: illegitimate son, interracial, interracial relations, corporate executive, parent child relationship, disorder, family relations, injustice, society, youth, opposites attract, farce ...
Time: future, 80s, 70s, year 1981
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Diary of a Tired Black Man (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, black comedy ...
Plot: interracial relations, opposites attract, social differences, looking for love, couples, society, love and romance, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, african american, divorce, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
 898
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 ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, couple relations, follow your dream, black, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, america, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
33%
Watermelon Man (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, biting, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: racism, social commentary, culture clash, satire, black, transformation, racial issues, african american, african, black lives matter, black history, marriage ...
Time: 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into ...
Style: touching, sweet, sincere, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, character study, young lovers, unwanted pregnancy, self discovery, teenage life, love story, bowling, friendship between men, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 141
White Lie (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
Style: tension, reflective
Plot: blaxploitation, interracial relations, revenge, love, doctor, rape, murder, african american, father, death, black man, racial issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.8
 283
Cora Unashamed (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: From the short story by Langston Hughes.
Plot: father daughter relationship, life changing, interracial, loss of daughter, grief, housekeeper, death of child, racist, black american, servant, african american, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: midwest, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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