Movies like Mandela

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Mandela (1987)
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Mandela (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Plot: black history, prison, racism, racial discrimination, massacre, interracial relations, apartheid, racial prejudice, forced labor, racial tension
Time: 20th century
Place: africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and sincere films with plots about racism, interracial relations, society, african american, racial tension, life is a bitch and blaxploitation mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mandela: Cry, the Beloved Country (1995), Bopha! (1993), Poor Boy's Game (2007), Panther (1995), The Color Purple (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Namibia
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first ...
Plot: massacre, prison, violence, jail, torture, politician, death, letter, police, soldier, husband wife relationship, woman ...
Time: 20th century
Place: africa, namibia
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95%
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Style: touching, political, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: racism, apartheid, interracial relations, politics, self discovery, priest, psychology, social justice, afrikaans, narration, murder, racial tension ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, post world war two
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
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, thought provoking, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: discrimination, apartheid, social change, racism, prison, legal, society, life is a bitch, state affairs, rebellion, politics, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Bopha! (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid ...
Style: independent film, thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: racism, slavery, independence, social commentary, african american, human trafficking, apartheid, family relations, police brutality, father son conflict, police station, afrikaans ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Poor Boy's Game (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, rough, crying
Plot: racism, foe turned friend, prison, boxing, redemption, interracial relations, starting over, strong sexual content, grudge, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Panther (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some ...
Style: political, controversial, disturbing, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: black panthers, hip hop, racism, black, african american, conspiracy, revolution, politics, marxist, drug, civil rights movement, civil rights ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: america, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Crisis at Central High (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Story of the federally-ordered integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Plot: civil rights, african american, blaxploitation, racial tension, racism, racial prejudice, racist, racial segregation, racial discrimination, civil rights movement, interracial relations, teacher ...
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Chocolate (1988)
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, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: racism, colonialism, coming of age, youth, imperialism, culture clash, interracial relations, farm, woman, animal abuse, summer, priest ...
Time: 1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
49%
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...
Style: black and white, retro, aesthetic, existential, social ...
Plot: racism, african american, poverty, racial segregation, civil rights, black, black history, working class family, race issues, family relations, segregation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1961, 50s, 20th century
Place: chicago, africa, usa, nigeria, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
46%
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Kin (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While on a hunt for elephant poachers in Namibia, a white female conservationist and a black lawyer fall for each other despite the condemnation by the local community.
Style: sentimental, captivating, emotional, erotic, independent film ...
Plot: interracial relations, interracial sex, fall in love, love, society, danger, isolation, bigotry, poaching, environmentalism, misfit, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Freedom Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot: african american, racism, fighting the system, interracial relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, discrimination, parents and children, politics, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Freedom Road (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their ...
Style: political, crying, period piece
Plot: racism, renaissance, black, american civil war, black boy, inhumanity, bare chested male, president, bitterness, breaking the fourth wall, good versus evil, male female relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: eastern europe, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.5
 6K
Disgrace (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, South Africa
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, sincere, captivating, rough ...
Plot: racism, society, love affair, interracial relations, power relations, forbidden love, isolation, father daughter relationship, gang, violence, rape, professor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Negro (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style: serious, tense, sincere, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: racism, interracial relations, uncover truth, police investigation, murder, vandalism, society, life is a bitch, law enforcement, violence, blaxploitation, discrimination ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Pressure (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Style: black cinema
Plot: reggae, black, radical, black history, coming of age, racism, racist, job interview, social criticism, family relations, black british
Time: 70s
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The March (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
Style: independent film
Plot: migration, poverty, immigration, group, politics, european union, assassination attempt, refugee, global warming, desert, hunger, wandering ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Sophie and the Moonhanger (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman pits herself against her husband and his Ku Klux Klan member friends when she learns that they are planning an attack against her black maid and her husband.
Plot: marriage, miscarriage, black woman, racial prejudice, hate crime, black man, american south, marital abuse, racism, housekeeper, interracial relations, ku klux klan ...
Time: 1950s
Place: southern usa
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38%
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Cadence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, time travel, black, exodus, sergeant, army life, racism, gang, military, rebellion, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, couple relations, follow your dream, black, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, america, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.3
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Babylon (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Plot: jamaican, reggae, black, racism, religion, blaxploitation, racial issues, rock and roll, african, stoner, nightclub, multiculturalism ...
Place: london, britain, africa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
My Sweet Charlie (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Style: tension
Plot: interracial romance, fugitive, rural setting, imposture, farmhouse, racial prejudice, illegitimacy, pregnancy, lighthouse, unwed pregnancy, miscarriage of justice, prejudice ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
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Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, political ...
Plot: racism, apartheid, racial violence, leadership, prison life, interracial relations, freedom fighter, friendship, rebellion, human spirit, fighting the system, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
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Conrack (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Style: deep, realistic, serious, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: teacher, racism, education, youth, african american, american south, black history, teaching, american culture, blaxploitation, humanist, civil rights ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: south carolina, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style: romantic, light, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, immigrant, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, indians, stereotypes, family drama, honest, love affair, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time: year 1991, 70s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1972
Place: mississippi, uganda, africa, india, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Color of Justice (1997)
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, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, racism, interracial relations, courtroom, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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