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The Negro (2002)
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The Negro (2002)
Original name: Le nèg'
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style: tense, sincere, serious, disturbing, thought provoking, realistic
Plot: racism, interracial relations, police investigation, uncover truth, murder, life is a bitch, society, law enforcement, vandalism, violence, discrimination, blaxploitation, countryside, death, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: africa, canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and tense films with plots about society, life is a bitch, racism, interracial relations, murder, injustice and blaxploitation mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Negro: The Valley of Tears (2012), Blood Done Sign My Name (2010), The Kitchen Toto (1987), Freedom Song (2000), Mandela and de Klerk (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Valley of Tears (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, interracial relations, society, family relations, life is a bitch, testimony, religions or cults, atrocity, racism, refugee, civil war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, middle east, lebanon
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95%
Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
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: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, murder, social differences, life is a bitch, society, introspection, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: north carolina, usa
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88%
The Kitchen Toto (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Style: independent film, grindhouse, thought provoking, biting, serious ...
Plot: youth, african, independence, blaxploitation, conflict, nudity, violent content, power relations, family relations, family problems, culture clash, social differences ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 50s
Place: africa, kenya
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80%
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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 ⇓
75%
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Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
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: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: south africa, africa
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75%
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Sus (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Election Night 1979: Margaret Thatcher is about to come into power. A young black man is held on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife. Officers Karn and Wilby, racist to the core and high on the prospect of a Conservative Party victory, try to ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, racism, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, injustice, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, social decay, police brutality, wrongful arrest, racial slur ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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
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66%
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 ⇓
66%
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Ladygrey (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, bleak
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, life is a bitch, society, interracial relations, community, social relations, male pubic hair, nudity, mental disorder, mentally challenged ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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61%
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Othello (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: interracial relations, shakespeare, tragic love, power relations, vengeance, downfall, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, dirty cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Just the Wind (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, ...
Style: serious, sincere, bleak, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: gypsy, racism, family in danger, social decay, murder, family life, life is a bitch, social misfits, realism, society, danger, secret place ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Runaway (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, social relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, lifestyle, society, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Timepiece (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot: racism, christmas, faith, murder, self defense, family relations, false accusation, family life, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Color of Justice (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four young black men kill a white woman, the D.A. is very cautious in how to proceed...
Style: tense, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, racism, interracial relations, courtroom, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Sankofa (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana, Burkina Faso, UK, Germany, Ethiopia
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, thought provoking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, black, african, afrofuturism, racism, sex crime, blaxploitation, racial issues, fashion, murder, interracial relations, sexual abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Our America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, social decay, teenage life, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, idealism ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 992
Gospel Hill (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, sincere, realistic, rough ...
Plot: racism, interracial relations, small town, assassination, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, who done it, uncover truth, investigation, society, injustice, adultery ...
Time: 2000s, 60s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The 19th Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: false accusation, murder, righting the wronged, society, estrangement, church, religions or cults, polygamy, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, oracle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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30 Miles (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: interracial relations, desert, racism, mind game, murder, on the road, racial relations, driving, down on your luck, hollywood, wedding, deadly ...
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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My Dog Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Môj pes Killer is a one-day drama portraying eighteen-year-old Marek living near the Slovak-Moravian border with his dad and his racist friends. However, Marek's best true friend is his dog. His life is shaken up when he discovers the secret ...
Style: tense, serious, sincere, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: skinhead, racism, social decay, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, dangerous animal, pets, society, racist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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A Way of Life (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At 17 LeighAnne Williams has a six month old baby to look after, with only the help of three teenage squatters who flog stolen gear to make ends meet. A neighbour (actually from Turkey) across the street becomes target to her growing paranoia that ...
Style: realistic, psychological, disturbing, bleak, sad ...
Plot: poverty, vandalism, delusion, family relations, family problems, social relations, life is a bitch, society, custody, interracial relations, parents and children, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Sucker Free City (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gangster, racism, life is a bitch, social decay, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, city life, police investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Blind Faith (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: in 1957 an African-American criminal lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy. Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee costar in this drama of racial and social ...
Style: thought provoking, independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: gay, lgbt, law, black, eye, murder, criminal lawyer, gay slur, conspiracy, courtroom drama, police corruption, false accusation ...
Time: year 1998, 50s
Place: bronx new york city, new york, usa
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42%
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Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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41%
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
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, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: civil rights, black, racism, old man, false accusation, false arrest, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, friendship, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Across the Line (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: racism, ice hockey, career, racial tension, racial discrimination, racial issues, racial segregation, social problems, society, racial stereotype, life is a bitch, athlete's life ...
Place: nova scotia, canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Adanggaman (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: slave trade, heroes, social differences, state affairs, injustice, politics, society, heroic mission, slavery, mother son relationship, african, blaxploitation ...
Time: 17th century
Place: africa, europe, france, west africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Chocolate (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Cameroon
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty ...
Style: touching, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: racism, colonialism, coming of age, youth, imperialism, culture clash, interracial relations, farm, woman, animal abuse, summer, priest ...
Time: 1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Hold Back (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, family problems, impossible love, family in crisis, society, love and romance, immigrant, religions or cults, unfulfillment, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, africa, france
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36%
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