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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
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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 rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
Plot: native american, native, indigenous people, indians, american indian, nature, massacre, injustice, protest, mine, politics, interracial relations, u.s. government, civil rights, voice over narration, indigenous, native americans
Time: 70s, 60s, 1960s

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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, native, indians, american indian, indigenous people and racism mostly in Drama, History and Western genres. Some movies like Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee: Naturally Native (1998), Where the Spirit Lives (1989), Shouting Secrets (2011), Winter in the Blood (2013), Drunktown's Finest (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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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87%
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 ...
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76%
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 ⇓
67%
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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 ⇓
65%
I Will Fight No More Forever (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to ...
Plot: native american, nature, usa history, indigenous people, battlefield, american history, american indian, indians, cavalry, historical figure, government, escape ...
Time: 1870s
Place: canada, america
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59%
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Crazy Horse (1996)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: native american, native, interracial relations, indigenous people, indians, american indian, injustice, battles, life is a bitch, society, military, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Elijah (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: The story of Elijah Harper.....
Plot: native american, native, ethnicity, native american reservation, racism, indian reservation, racial slur, indigenous, part animation
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Barking Water (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Frankie is dying. Irene hasn't forgiven him. And they are racing against time to find their way home. Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. He must go home one last time. And, like so many times before, Irene is extending herself ...
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, road movie, psychological ...
Plot: love and romance, rehabilitation, hospital, hopes, one last chance, road trip, memories, memory, self discovery, indigenous people, native, tribe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 547
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 ⇓
51%
The Last of His Tribe (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Indians of California. Befriended by an Anthropologist (Jon Voight) who is able to speak Ishi's language, he is a gold mine of information about his tribe's way of life. A doctor (David ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: indigenous people, native american, nature, redsploitation, american indian, indians, scenery, misfit, society, teaching the ways of the world, culture clash, racism ...
Time: 1910s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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
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50%
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 ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
Powwow Highway (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ...
Style: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: native american, native, road trip, indians, magic, indigenous people, friendship, on the road, journey, tribe, nature, american indian ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: montana, south dakota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
39%
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Windwalker (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: native, native american, indigenous people, american indian, indians, tribe, pagan, redsploitation, mythology, wolf, missing son, mountain ...
Time: year 1980, 18th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
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38%
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The Brave (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, injustice, social decay, misfit, unemployment, alcohol abuse, gang, society, male female relationship, self sacrifice, violence ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 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 ⇓
37%
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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 ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
36%
Crooked Arrows (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style: uplifting, exciting, feel good, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: native american, lacrosse, high school, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, native, preparatory school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Before Tomorrow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two isolated families meet for a summertime celebration. Food is abundant and the future seems bright, but Ningiuq, a wise old woman, sees her world as fragile and moves through it with a pervasive sense of dread. Ningiuq and her grandson Maniq are ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, isolation, native, human spirit, family relations, friendship, hopes, escapades, youth, elderly, island ...
Time: 19th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
32%
 6.9
 78
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 ⇓
31%
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 700
Imprint (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: ghost, dying father, haunted by the past, supernatural, family relations, murder, self discovery, society, death in the family, juvenile delinquency, native american, trial ...
Place: south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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