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The Bus Is Coming (1971)
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The Bus Is Coming (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Style: black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, racial issues, ghetto, police officer, police, investigation, murder, soldier, racism, priest, cemetery, blind man, african american, funeral, brother sister relationship, brother, police station, vietnam veteran, small town, loan shark, death of brother, harmonica, jukebox ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles

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Most similar movies to The Bus Is Coming

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and black cinema films with plots about blaxploitation, african american, racism, black, racial issues, society and interracial relations mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Bus Is Coming: The Bad Bunch (1973), Ashes and Embers (1982), The Learning Tree (1969), Killer of Sheep (1978), Brotherhood of Death (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Bad Bunch (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, ghetto, soldier, hostility, afro
Place: vietnam
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95%
Ashes and Embers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd ...
Style: independent film, non-linear, black cinema
Plot: vietnam war, blaxploitation, black, american dream, flashback, african american, father son relationship, gas station, beach, argument, vietnam veteran, post traumatic stress disorder ...
Place: washington d.c., vietnam, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Learning Tree (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, ...
Style: aesthetic, existential, independent film, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: coming of age, racism, black, murder, racial issues, blaxploitation, boy, social justice, black lives matter, african, interracial, family relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style: independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghetto, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children, family life, couple relations, family problems, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Brotherhood of Death (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 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, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, revenge, ku klux klan, vigilantism, racial issues, black, racism, vietnam veteran, injustice, society, rebellion ...
Time: 70s
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57%
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Halls of Anger (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Style: black and white, independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cheerleader, blaxploitation, juvenile delinquent, racial issues, black, high school, hardcase students, life is a bitch, social misfits, ambition, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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White Lie (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
Style: tension, reflective
Plot: blaxploitation, interracial relations, revenge, love, doctor, rape, murder, african american, father, death, black man, racial issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Black Klansman (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
Style: psychotronic, black and white, grindhouse, political, entertaining ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, revenge, racial issues, chaos, interracial, african, swimming pool, photographer, brother brother relationship, daughter, funeral ...
Place: alabama, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Resting Place (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help ...
Style: sincere, realistic, talky, serious
Plot: vietnam war, racism, parents and children, interracial relations, military, military life, investigation, mysterious death, patriot, death of son, racial segregation, society ...
Time: year 1986, year 1972, 70s
Place: asia, vietnam, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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American Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.
Style: suspenseful, heartbreaking, thought provoking, suspense, sad ...
Plot: racism, police, racial discrimination, 18 year old, discrimination, african american woman, racial injustice, black, murder, investigation, ex husband, divorced parents ...
Place: miami, usa
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55%
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Drop Squad (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
Style: independent film, biting, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: black, blaxploitation, racial issues, social activism, advertising, satire, political satire, corporate crime, religions or cults, campaign, politics, rebellion ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Brotherly Love (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, hood ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: cheerleader, basketball, family problems, follow your dream, ambition, family relations, prodigy, athlete's life, desire for fame, hopes, youth, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, indiana, pennsylvania
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53%
The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.
Style: independent film, black cinema
Plot: black, blaxploitation, racism, american culture, racial issues, african american, girl, class differences, cross cultural relations, racist, american abroad, confrontation ...
Place: france, paris france
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53%
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Native Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending
Plot: poverty, african american, danger, love, driver, crime and punishment, racial issues, black, forbidden love, lovers, economist, blaxploitation ...
Place: chicago, new york
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51%
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Black Like Me (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Style: deep, independent film
Plot: racism, social justice, journalism, writers, african, spy, blaxploitation, black, civil rights, interracial relations, impersonation, journalist ...
Place: america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The River Niger (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even ...
Style: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: black, blaxploitation, african, swing, racial issues, african american, performer's life, family relations, urban ghetto, couple relations, human spirit, love and romance ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Badge of the Assassin (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Style: crime drama
Plot: black, police investigation, nypd, murder investigation, police officer, cop killer, racism, buddy cop, black cop, murder, police, assistant district attorney
Place: new orleans, san francisco, new york
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48%
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Jasper, Texas (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, freeze frame
Plot: african american, racism, small town, investigation, fighting the system, social decay, social differences, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, murder, injustice ...
Time: 90s
Place: austin texas, midwest, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: basketball, coming of age, blaxploitation, black, urban, african american, american culture, african, black history, racial issues, murder, racism ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In this meditative film, the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, and the drama arises out of the timeless but still contemporary issues of their lives.
Style: independent film
Plot: african, racial issues, black, blaxploitation, murder, poverty, landlord, farming, police chase, killing
Time: year 1976
Place: africa, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
Style: unusual plot structure, sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: african american, friendship, male nudity, black, black lives matter, racism, blaxploitation, society, rivalry, friends, dark humor, courage ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Dutchman (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge ...
Style: neo noir, allegory, independent film, tension, black cinema
Plot: black man white woman relationship, racism, big city, african, blaxploitation, racial issues, subway, racist, train, interracial romance, intimate, intimacy ...
Time: year 1966
Place: new york
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45%
Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
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: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, murder, social differences, life is a bitch, society, introspection, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Always Outnumbered (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to ...
Style: hood, crime drama, realistic, serious, rough
Plot: black, ex convict, cancer, gang, blaxploitation, ghetto, retirement home, terminal illness, family relations, family problems, couples, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Ditchdigger's Daughters (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six daughters to grow up to be doctors.
Plot: black, blaxploitation, teenager, interracial relations, family relations, patriarch, racism, education, funeral, father daughter relationship, african american, flashback ...
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Burning Sands (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: brotherhood, university, black, society, murder, youth, disorder, friendship, danger, death, dishonesty, obsession ...
Time: year 2017
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40%
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Plot: slavery, civil war, african american, american civil war, human exploitation, blaxploitation, black, american culture
Time: victorian era
Place: kentucky, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Uptight (1968)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Style: political, independent film, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: blaxploitation, black, racial issues, african, music and dance, gangster, assassination, life is a bitch, betrayal, rebellion, politics, vengeance ...
Time: 60s
Place: ireland, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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