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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
interracial romance, racism, racial issues, rape, racial tension, lawyer, sexual abuse, blaxploitation, civil rights, sex crime, pregnancy, interracial relations, law firm, small town, tragic hero, revenge, murder, murder investigation, divorce, adultery, racist, redneck, husband wife relationship, police corruption, white trash ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about society, racism, dishonesty, murder, life is a bitch, interracial relations and african american mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like The Liberation of L.B. Jones: The Klansman (1974), A Time to Kill (1996), Bucktown (1975), Mandingo (1975), Jungle Fever (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in ...
Style:
campy, political, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
ku klux klan, racism, blaxploitation, false accusation, small town, interracial relations, opposites attract, dishonesty, vigilantism, rivalry, society, vengeance ...
Time:
70s
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, lawyer, courtroom drama, court, murder, justice, courtroom, small town, rape, legal, injustice, legal action ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, canada, southern usa
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90%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, african american, redneck, martial arts, brother, prostitute, betrayal, nightclub, interracial relations, small town, racism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, southern usa
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76%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
interracial relations, slavery, interracial romance, racism, slave trade, slave auction, plantation, interracial sex, slave, gambling, blaxploitation, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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 ...
Plot:
interracial romance, architect, interracial relations, african american, racism, society, drug addiction, love affair, drugs, prejudice, relationships, social differences ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
injustice, racism, electric chair, false accusation, interracial relations, murder, racial injustice, siblings relations, small town, death row, wrongfully committed, small town life ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
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59%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough
Plot:
love triangle, hitman, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, friendship, social decay, vengeance, vigilantism, gangsters, gang, rape, erotica ...
Time:
year 1989, 21st century
Place:
latin america, colombia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
racism, small town, civil rights, police, african american, ku klux klan, investigation, murder, suspense, racial slur, violence, politics ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
mississippi, canada, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After bagging his latest victim, a murderous sociopath (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to steal the dead man's identity and pose as the deputy of a remote coastal town, where the local sheriff (Beau Bridges) and his lover (Camelia Kath) are cooking ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, frame up, small town, disorder, hidden identity, investigation, mistaken identity, betrayal, law enforcement, dishonesty, love triangle, small town life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Style:
bleak, intense, neo noir, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
police corruption, brutality, police, police brutality, bigotry, dysfunctional family, scandal, dishonesty, drugs, law enforcement, sister sister relationship, suspense ...
Time:
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Place:
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Movies similar to A Time to Kill
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, fall in love, dysfunctional family, couple relations, breakup, couples, criminal heroes, single parent, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, connecticut
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46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the ...
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lyrical, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
depression, lovers on the run, justice, loneliness, mafia, visceral, train, female nudity, on the road, gangsters, male nudity, great depression ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois, memphis, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the ...
Style:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
racism, police corruption, murder, police investigation, racial issues, gangsters, justice, brutality, crime gone awry, fbi, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America ...
Style:
political, uplifting, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial love, racism, civil rights, love, interracial couple, interracial romance, interracial marriage, marriage, relationships, racial issues ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
africa, virginia, usa, southern usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style:
touching, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Audience:
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Plot:
racism, lawyer, courtroom, small town, courtroom drama, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, court, prejudice ...
Time:
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Place:
alabama, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in!
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
murder, police investigation, jewish, orthodox jew, police, conspiracy theory, brutality, unlikely friendships, judaism, who done it, partners against crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, israel, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, thought provoking, intense ...
Plot:
racism, prejudice, small town, african american, racial slur, police, murder, racial tension, murder mystery, investigation, police officer, police procedural ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, california, north carolina ...
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39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
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thought provoking, serious, rough, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
native american reservation, native american, brother brother relationship, arson, family relations, vandalism, life is a bitch, vigilantism, homecoming, american football, human nature, unemployment ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
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disturbing, controversial, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, revenge, home invasion, violence, vengeance, sex crime, cult, martial arts, prison escape, confrontation ...
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
femme fatale, police corruption, police, female assassin, female killer, gangsters, love story, secrets, woman on top, female nudity, blonde, sexy woman ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, phoenix arizona, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
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realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, social decay, murder, false accusation, police corruption, dishonesty, legal ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
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37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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erotic, emotional, bleak, gloomy, serious ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
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gangsters, organized crime, betrayal, vengeance, violence, love triangle, murder, haunted by the past, couple relations, siblings relations, love and romance, dishonesty ...
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80s, year 1980, year 1983
Place:
new york, boston, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, runaway, lawyer, murder, blindness, courtroom, african american, chauffeur, paranoia, redemption, prejudice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
chicago illinois, africa, usa, ireland
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36%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
funny, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, gangsters, african american, tough guy, mafia, black history, cult, drugs, pimp, prostitute, urban ghetto ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...
Style:
psychotronic, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Interracial love story set in Detroit.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, harsh, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
interracial relations, hip hop, interracial romance, high school, forbidden love, racism, teenager, prejudice, school, friendship, childhood, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york, michigan, detroit, usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Time:
2000s, year 2007, year 2008, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, death sentence, moral ambiguity, morality, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, true crime, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This gritty inner-city film by John Sayles follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father (Tony Lo ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey, usa
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34%
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