Movies like Uncle Tom's Cabin 1987
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Plot:
slavery
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, unusual plot structure and atmospheric films with plots about family relations, african american, slavery, runaway, nudity (full frontal - brief), depression and female nudity mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like Uncle Tom's Cabin: Roses Are for the Rich (1987), Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978), Cecilia (1982), Thumb Tripping (1972), Badge of the Assassin (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Plot:
exploitation, slavery, female whipping
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness. When her attempts ...
Plot:
revenge, murder trial, doll, coal mine, rose, cyanide
Place:
appalachia, san francisco, birmingham alabama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates ...
Plot:
slavery, teacher, interracial relations, child's point of view, boycott, great depression, miscarriage of justice, dysfunctional family, african american, black family, frame up
Time:
1930s
Place:
mississippi
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long ...
Plot:
colonialism, slavery, skinny dipping, female nudity, independence, female full frontal nudity
Place:
cuba, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, love, marriage, husband wife relationship, travel, runaway, female nudity, truck, hippie, journey, truck driver, on the road ...
Place:
san francisco, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young teacher comes to the impoverished mountain region of Cutter Gap, Tennesse in 1912 and tries to make a difference. Based on the best-selling novel by Catherine Marshall.
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, West Germany
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Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of the clock-like movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager, wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In December 1775, Cletus Moyer is a free black Northerner in colonial America, helping slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters captures Moyer.
Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already ...
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As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
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Time:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 94 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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