Movies like Elijah

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Elijah (2007)
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Elijah (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: The story of Elijah Harper.....
Plot: native american, racism, native, native american reservation, ethnicity, indian reservation, racial slur, indigenous, part animation

Most similar movies to Elijah

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and sincere films with plots about indigenous, native american, indigenous people, racism, native, american indian and indians mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like Elijah: Where the Spirit Lives (1989), Naturally Native (1998), And So It Is (1966), Drunktown's Finest (2014), Shouting Secrets (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be ...
Plot: native american, native, kidnapping, genocide, child abuse, indians, american indian, historical event, indigenous people, boarding school, school, culture clash ...
Place: canada
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95%
Naturally Native (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity ...
Style: independent film
Plot: slice of life, american indian, native, indians, indigenous people, racism, cosmetics, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, native american, indigenous
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their ...
Plot: native american, native, indigenous people, indians, american indian, nature, injustice, protest, massacre, mine, u.s. government, voice over narration ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.1
 251
And So It Is (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Plot: revenge, rape, indigenous people, racism, native, community, rape and revenge, native american, businessman, husband, woman, rural setting ...
Place: bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Drunktown's Finest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous transsexual - search for love and acceptance.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: native american, transsexual, indigenous people, native american reservation, lgbt, social problems, indian reservation, relationship problems, life is a bitch, transgender, women of color, american indian ...
Place: indiana, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Shouting Secrets (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Plot: native american, getting home, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, indigenous people, native, american indian, indians, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Dance Me Outside (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: native american, native american reservation, native, indigenous people, revenge, friendship, coming of age, indians, american indian, family relations, best friend, interracial relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Black Cloud (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, colorful ...
Plot: native american, boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, native, hopes, human spirit, society, self discovery, racism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Always Further On (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Raul (Igancio Lopez Tarso) is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. Jaime ...
Plot: native, environmental, exploitation, murder, corruption, anthropologist, mountain, environmental issue, corrupt politician, deforestation, ecology, land grab ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.2
 120
Fish Hawk (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: boy, drug addiction, native, dog, friendship, nature, bear, redemption, sadness, farm, wilderness, dignity ...
Time: year 1979, turn of the century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
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, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, native, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, love and romance, youth, misfit, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.8
 229
Follow Me Home (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black ...
Style: spiritual, independent film
Plot: drug addiction, racism, graffiti, native, interracial relations, chicano, collaboration, enlightenment, racial injustice, emancipation, racial relations, introspection ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Style: touching, melancholic, scenic, uplifting, independent film ...
Plot: native american, culture clash, coming of age, childhood, segregation, teacher, courage, stereotypes, beautiful scenery, starting over, society, magic ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Older Than America (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: genocide, native american, against humanity, dishonesty, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, clergy, family relations, priest, native, strong female lead, american indian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Winter in the Blood (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style: contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: native american, introspection, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, hung over, indigenous people, native, tribe, american indian, indians, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Fictional portrayal of 'The Summer of 1990' in Kanehsatake: the major conflict between a Mohawk community and the Canadian and Quebec governments - over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery.
Plot: civil rights, crisis, native american, indigenous, inuit, mohawk
Time: 90s
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Smoke Signals (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style: road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: native american, on the road, native american reservation, self discovery, friendship, road trip, native, indians, adolescence, life, escapades, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place: idaho, arizona, indiana, america, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
One Dead Indian (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Stoney Point Natives assemble at Ipperwash Provincial Park for what began as a peaceful protest.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure
Plot: indigenous people, native american, violence, police brutality, police officer, innocent person killed, racism, crime investigation, courtroom, blood, riot, sniper ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Johnny Tiger (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Teacher George Dean (Robert Taylor) packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native American children on a Seminole reservation in Florida.
Plot: owl, bare chested male, voice over narration, doctor, teaching, boy, swimming, cigarette smoking, girl, doll, indian reservation, church ...
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
On Sacred Ground (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, political
Plot: indians, reporter, american indian, social problems, intrigue, investigative journalism, native american reservation, problem, construction, indian reservation, investigative reporter, construction company ...
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.9
 1K
Beans (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and ...
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, woman, politics, young girl, land dispute, woods, showdown, girlhood, driving, grownups, first kiss ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Lesser Blessed (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Larry, a 16-year-old Tlicho Indian, lives in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. He loves heavy metal music and has a crush on his classmate, the high school's hottie, Juliet Hope. Larry's past holds a variety of terrors—his father ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, stylized
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, teenage love, love and romance, youth, teenage life, small town, native, coming of age, native american, indigenous people, heavy metal, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Color of Courage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose family, the McGhees, has moved into a previously all-white neighborhood. A McGhee granddaughter, ...
Style: inspirational
Plot: civil rights, racism, blaxploitation, female bonding, civil rights movement, interracial relations, neighbor, african american, segregation, supreme court
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Bones of Crows (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, period drama
Plot: indigenous people, teenage life, anti racism, teenager, troubled past, social problems, confronting the past, social issues, racism, violence, life is a bitch, world war two ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Empire of Dirt (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, native american, youth, single parent, life is a bitch, danger, society, social misfits, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Black and White (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, aborigine, racism, illiteracy, injustice, legal investigation, fighting the system, price of justice, false accusation, social differences, society ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
 1K
The Exiles (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The story of one wild but typical night in the lives of three young American Indians who have left their reservations to live in downtown Los Angeles.
Style: aesthetic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: underdog, indigenous people, bar fight, social misfits, life is a bitch, society, friends, estrangement, urban ghetto, culture clash, fish out of water, urban ghetto life ...
Time: year 1961, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
33%
 6.8
 923
Birdwatchers (2008)
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, indians, teenage life, injustice, power relations, fighting the system, dishonesty, hopes, life is a bitch, social differences, jungle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Orinoco, New World (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Orinoko: main character in the film. The first part is set during the pre-conquest and is represented as an earthly paradise. A shaman has precognitive visions: go to Columbus and the Catholic missionary in 1498.
Style: allegory, experimental, silent
Plot: jungle, spanish conquest, indigenous people, male nudity, female nudity, shaman, native american, missionary, conquering, rain forest, indigenous, no dialogue
Place: venezuela, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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