Movies like The Klansman
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The Klansman (1974)
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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 white sheets aren't intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down.
Style:
political, tense, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, campy
Plot:
ku klux klan, racism, redneck, blaxploitation, interracial rape, swing, white supremacy, interracial relations, false accusation, small town, legal action, rally, life is a bitch, injustice, vigilantism, legal, discrimination, teenage life, vengeance, rivalry, society, opposites attract, police corruption, social relations, courtroom drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, southern usa, alabama
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Most similar movies to The Klansman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about life is a bitch, deadly, society, dishonesty, murder, racism and law enforcement mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Klansman: The Intruder (1962), Mississippi Burning (1988), Deacons for Defense (2003), Brotherhood of Death (1976), The Coverup (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, political, controversial ...
Plot:
racism, ku klux klan, ethnicity, lynch mob, deep south, civil rights, racial discrimination, racial issues, blaxploitation, ethnic, exploitation, african ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
southern usa, america, usa, africa
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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:
political thriller, southern gothic, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, small town, police, civil rights, african american, ku klux klan, murder, politics, deep south, investigation, racial prejudice, racial segregation ...
Time:
year 1964, 20th century, 60s, year 1988
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, america, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, politics, injustice, culture clash, state affairs, vigilantism, social decay, discrimination, police corruption, african american, blaxploitation, black ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated like human beings. However, these newcomers convince the local ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, vietnam war, revenge, ku klux klan, vigilantism, black, racial issues, racism, vietnam veteran, interracial relations, social decay, rebellion ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mysterious death, corruption, investigation, legal, rivalry, law enforcement, legal action, dishonesty, life is a bitch, small town life, truth, suspicion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Joseph Gainer is a high priced attorney, notorious for getting guilty criminals off the hook. But Gainer is forced to take another look at the price you pay for defending the guilty when he takes on a case of three young men accused of a heinous ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
gang rape, courtroom, gang, power relations, life is a bitch, law enforcement, legal action, rivalry, legal, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, teenage life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
810
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ...
Style:
suspense, independent film, tense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racism, ku klux klan, youth, nypd, xenophobia, police, white supremacy, partner, special agent, reluctant partners, vigilantism, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution. At the core of the story is Frances, who finds ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, friendship, injustice, social decay, juvenile delinquency, hopes, racism, misfit, legal, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
28%
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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, bleak, suspenseful, rough, gloomy ...
Plot:
american south, racial injustice, injustice, interracial relations, murder, electric chair, racism, false accusation, blind ambition, amateur detective, legal investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 60s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa, charleston south carolina
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, legal, death sentence, courtroom, ku klux klan, murder, prison, anti semitism, haunted by the past, politics, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1967, year 1996
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the true story of the largest cash robbery in the history of the USA.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
murder, white supremacy, religion, robbery, hostage, working undercover, down on your luck, interracial relations, police corruption, injustice, terrorism, investigation ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style:
serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
courtroom, false accusation, racism, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, human spirit, politics, hopes, society, against the odds, fighting the system ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, alabama, new york
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
Style:
political, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, racism, black, urban, marxist, jazz, black lives matter, white supremacy, exploitation, revolution, interracial relations, injustice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, alternate history, alternate reality, kidnapping, alternate universe, society, vengeance, black, racial discrimination, prejudice, racial tension, distopia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
26%
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. ...
Style:
social, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, sexual assault, white male black female relationship, racial issues, interracial romance, racial tension, rape, blaxploitation, lawyer, sexual abuse, murder, adultery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, america, usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, introspection, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jake DeMitro cannot maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Francini or concentrate on his prestigious position with the Prosecutor's Office. He suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality and fights on a regular basis with his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, introspection, hotshot lawyer, moral dilemma, courtroom drama, injustice, life is a bitch, drug dealing, rivalry, obsession, legal, parallel world ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racism, serial killer, racial discrimination, interracial, corruption, police, investigation, police corruption, violent content, special agent, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A sheriff struggles to hide his violent murderous acts.
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, psychopath, small town, violent content, danger, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, social relations, small town life, profanity ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
24%
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:
grindhouse, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, black, african american, redneck, martial arts, brother, prostitute, betrayal, interracial relations, racism, police corruption ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
kansas city, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
small town, vengeance, law enforcement, police investigation, rivalry, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, sexual assault, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
New York attorney William Boyals has escaped the Louisiana bayou of his childhood, but he must return to investigate the death of a childhood friend who, like Boyals himself, was both black and gay.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
murder, police corruption, racism, small town, fighting the system, investigation, injustice, society, legal, rebellion, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new york, southern usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, false accusation, law enforcement, dishonesty, legal action, life is a bitch, legal, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, courtroom, courtroom drama, price of justice, rebellion, rivalry, society, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
24%
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, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, interracial relations, racism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, hood ...
Plot:
murder, gang, racism, vengeance, vigilantism, fall in love, criminal heroes, dishonesty, moral dilemma, starting over, introspection, crime gone awry ...
Similarity:
23%
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:
harsh, serious, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
racism, police corruption, murder, police investigation, racial issues, gangster, hip hop, brutality, justice, fbi, crime gone awry, false accusation ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.
Style:
disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
amish, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, forbidden love, murder, pregnancy, police investigation, life is a bitch, police detective, culture clash, teenage life, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia, pennsylvania
Similarity:
23%
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