Movies like Black Girl
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Black Girl (1966)
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Original name: La Noire de...
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal, France
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, cult film, contemplative
Plot:
racism, immigrants, maid, master servant relationship, feminist, blaxploitation, alienation, mental disorder, black woman, black history, anti racism, suicide, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flashback, discrimination, misfit, rich and poor, life is a bitch, isolation, social differences, society, confined, suffering, culture clash, fish out of water ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
africa, french riviera, france, south of france, europe, senegal, southern france
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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, family relations, racism, misfit, interracial relations and blaxploitation mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like Black Girl: Camp de Thiaroye (1988), Moolaadé (2004), The Kitchen Toto (1987), Blood Done Sign My Name (2010), Little Lion (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A historical drama based on the Thiaroye transit camp massacre, Camp de Thiaroye dismantles the myth of colonial assimilation to expose ingrained social and cultural mechanisms of racism, exploitation, and privilege. In 1944, the French army ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot:
racism, prison, prison escape, racial issues, imperialism, blaxploitation, interracial relations, soldier, autobiography, injustice, culture clash, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
africa, senegal, france
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, touching, political ...
Plot:
rebellion, sexism, childhood, torture, child abuse, culture clash, women, tradition, fighting the system, human spirit, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, japan, tokyo, france
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82%
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:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, biting, sincere ...
Plot:
youth, blaxploitation, suspense, graphic violence, nude, family problems, family relations, power relations, interracial relations, discrimination, culture clash, political unrest ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
africa, kenya
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78%
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, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, society, introspection, life is a bitch, injustice, social decay, discrimination, small town life, small town, murder investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
follow your dream, sport, hopes, immigrants, life is a bitch, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, youth, ambition, football, soccer, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, stylized, queer cinema ...
Plot:
lgbt, gender, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, social misfits, society, discrimination, misfit, gay, black lgbt, blaxploitation, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kenya, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, hopes, starting over, misfit, urban ghetto life, addiction, husband wife relationship, settler, courage, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
society, pregnancy, youth, mental illness, teenage life, injustice, power relations, win over, life is a bitch, confined, misfit, mental institution ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Without her husband and without her lawyer’s licence, which has been withdrawn, Noora is left pregnant and alone in her apartment. Her attempt to leave Iran turns into a fight with male chauvinism. A personal, nerve-wracking and infuriating film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, rebellion, political unrest, immigrants, woman in danger, life is a bitch, society, injustice, chaos, strong female presence, misfit, lawyer ...
Place:
iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style:
bleak, art house, philosophical, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
courage, alienation, mental disorder, immigrants, deadend life, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, drug abuse, realism, babies and infants, urban ghetto life, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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, uplifting, thought provoking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
discrimination, apartheid, social change, prison, racism, politics, society, rebellion, legal, hopes, heroes, fighting the system ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s
Place:
south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak, contemplative
Plot:
master and servant, women of color, feminist, redemption, feminism, family relations, family problems, discrimination, haunted by the past, parents and children, bondage, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, tunisia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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:
sincere, serious, bleak, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gypsy, racism, social decay, family in danger, realism, family life, murder, society, life is a bitch, social misfits, village, secret place ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
Style:
serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic
Plot:
culture clash, rebellion, interracial relations, indians, teenage life, power relations, injustice, life is a bitch, hopes, dishonesty, fighting the system, jungle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, realistic, sexy, intellectual, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, colonialism, women, coming of age, youth, imperialism, culture clash, interracial relations, farm, childhood, betrayal, destiny ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, uncover truth, police investigation, interracial relations, vandalism, life is a bitch, law enforcement, society, murder, violence, blaxploitation, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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:
serious, realistic, sincere, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, society, immigrants, love and romance, human nature, family in crisis, impossible love, family problems, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
424
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Plot:
opposites attract, age difference, unlikely couple, social differences, fall in love, couples, orphan, love and romance, obsession, society, youth, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
friendship, writer's life, master and servant, society, rich and poor, power relations, strong female presence, maid, world war two, intrigue, artists and showbiz, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
migration, immigrants, discrimination, culture clash, racism, society, starting over, misfit, hopes, optimism, fish out of water, interracial relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
barcelona, spain, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
sincere, emotional, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, society, addiction, human nature, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, child abuse, women of color, racial issues ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia, Germany, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
friendship, village, revolution, idealism, haunted by the past, society, rebellion, political unrest, medical school, state affairs, rich and poor, socialist ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, ethiopia, germany, europe, west germany ...
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style:
political, realistic, serious
Plot:
australian aboriginal, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, segregation, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, love and romance, misfit, society ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot:
racism, slavery, family relations, immigrants, society, obsessive quest, family tradition, elderly, family history, interracial relations, ancestry, widow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south carolina, new york, harlem, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
Style:
realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, interracial relations, babies and infants, master and servant, obsession, society, family relations, working class, parents and children, hospital, social differences, culture clash ...
Time:
50s
Place:
india, europe, england, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrants, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, society, injustice, rivalry, gangsters, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been ...
Style:
sad, psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
worker, world war one, trafficking, wife beater, world history, colonialism, blaxploitation, human spirit, society, boss and employee, misfit, discrimination ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
africa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
teacher, education, professor, dedicated educator, kindergarten, corrupt system, human rights, psychology, bittersweet, power relations, social relations, social worker ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
cooking, food, immigrants, working class, restaurant, business venture, family problems, hopes, follow your dream, family life, belly dancing, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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