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I Am Slave (2010)
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I Am Slave (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum, who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London, where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah ,back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, sincere, touching, realistic, bleak, inspirational
Plot: slavery, kidnapping, life is a bitch, woman in danger, injustice, society, confined, master and servant, teenage girl, african, women, sexual abuse, moving, human rights, black, blaxploitation, isolation, human nature, against humanity, power relations, village, civil war, prisoner, slave, diplomat ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: sudan, africa, england, london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and disturbing films with plots about society, life is a bitch, injustice, confined, african, blaxploitation and hopes mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Am Slave: Trade Of Innocents (2012), Desert Flower (2009), Blind Mountain (2007), Brazuca (2009), Adanggaman (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Trade Of Innocents (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: human trafficking, sex maniac, sex slavery, sex trafficking, sex with a minor, forced prostitution, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, life is a bitch, injustice, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, cambodia, southeast asia
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Desert Flower (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: supermodel, immigrant, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, feminism, model, fashion, un, homelessness, female protagonist, circumcision ...
Time: year 2009, year 1997, 60s, 21st century
Place: somalia, africa, indiana, europe, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Blind Mountain (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Blind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, touching, controversial ...
Plot: kidnapping, village, woman in danger, life is a bitch, confined, social relations, injustice, slavery, isolation, sexual abuse, bullying, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Brazuca (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, sincere, contemplative
Plot: mistaken identity, wrong place wrong time, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, social differences, immigrant, city life, political unrest, biopic, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, london, england, europe
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41%
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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 ⇓
40%
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Stolen (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: human trafficking, uncover truth, society, law enforcement, confined, police detective, danger, investigation, urban, rescue, captivity, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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
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36%
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Good Lie (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Kenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, captivating, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: refugee, survival, culture clash, friendship, childhood, children, courage, civil war, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, fish out of water, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, south africa, kenya, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Life Interrupted (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After Debbie Smith was raped, she didn't take the law into her own hands. She wrote the law... Based on a true story. In 1989, Debbie Smith was living a quiet life as a housewife with her police officer husband, Rob and their two kids, but one ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, legal action, legislation, rape victim, courtroom drama, society, legal, life is a bitch, dehumanization, injustice, rivalry, sexual abuse ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 864
The New Man (2007)
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: emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: society, pregnancy, youth, teenage life, mental illness, win over, injustice, power relations, life is a bitch, misfit, confined, mental institution ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
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, black, prison, urban, imperialism, historical event, african, blaxploitation, racial issues, prison escape, interracial relations, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: africa, senegal, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the ...
Style: non fiction, realistic, serious, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot: woman in danger, domestic violence, abusive relationship, feminism, abusive husband, injustice, family problems, domestic disturbance, legal action, life is a bitch, couple relations, legal ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: slavery, racism, survival, civil rights, torture, african american, freedom, american history, life is a bitch, black history, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, year 2013, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: louisiana, new orleans, america, africa, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Invader (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot: society, couple relations, misfit, life is a bitch, job seeking, immigrant, human nature, couples, blaxploitation, horny woman, cheating wife, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, africa, europe, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.1
 994
Winnie Mandela (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious, political
Plot: ambition, politics, state affairs, society, confined, feminism, hopes, political unrest, isolation, black, biopic, black cast ...
Time: 20th century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 821
Goodbye (2011)
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: sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: rebelliousness, immigrant, woman in danger, life is a bitch, injustice, rebellion, political unrest, danger, society, chaos, arab, misfit ...
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Pinochet's Last Stand (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: politics, rebellion, state affairs, against humanity, downfall, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, politician, trial, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: latin america, chile, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Jammed (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade.
Style: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: sex trafficking, human trafficking, missing person, deportation, gangster, immigrant, social decay, manipulation, prostitute, sexual abuse, kidnapping, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Moolaadé (2003)
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, sincere, thought provoking, touching, political ...
Plot: rebellion, sexism, childhood, mutilation, torture, child abuse, culture clash, tradition, fighting the system, african, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Book of Negroes (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 265 min.
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Story: Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, human spirit, racism, life is a bitch, hopes, injustice, escapades, confined, society, american revolution, black history, black ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: south carolina, usa, africa, america, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 2K
Trafficked (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, serious, crime drama
Audience: chick flick
Plot: human trafficking, slavery, sex slavery, forced labor, woman in danger, abduction, captivity, sex trafficking, forced prostitution, freedom, female friendship, life is a bitch ...
Place: northern california, new delhi, nigeria, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Closet Land (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, ...
Style: minimal cast, art house, sexy, sexual, erotic ...
Plot: police station, twenty something, moving, psychological manipulation, bdsm, abduction, extreme, kidnapped, monster, sex crime, pedophilia, human experiment ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.9
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Yasmin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: immigrant, family relations, social differences, culture clash, false accusation, terrorism, life is a bitch, society, injustice, religions or cults, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: britain, pakistan, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
 684
Blind Flight (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
Style: sincere, serious, thought provoking, captivating, political ...
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, friendship, friendship between men, introspection, captivity, prison life, torture, hopes, confined, culture clash, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, middle east, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 25K
Manderlay (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological, art house, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, freedom, gangster, torture, blacks and whites, fighting the system, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, class struggle, righting the wronged ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 20th century
Place: alabama, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.9
 1K
Difret (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Ethiopia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, thought provoking, social ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human rights, legal investigation, fighting the system, injustice, righting the wronged, false accusation, against the odds, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, life is a bitch, hopes, legal ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: ethiopia, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 653
Jump! (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 118 min.
Story: JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most sought after celebrity portrait photographer of his ...
Style: disturbing, serious, contemplative, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, racism, injustice, state affairs, dishonesty, false accusation, discrimination, power relations, righting the wronged, society, legal action ...
Time: 1920s
Place: austria, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
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24 Days (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Style: disturbing, realistic, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: investigation, family in crisis, missing child, family problems, life is a bitch, abduction, ransom, judaism, israeli, kidnapping, police, confined
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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