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Slaves (1969)
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Slaves (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
Style: independent film
Plot: slave, black, slavery, plantation, interracial, human exploitation, music and dance, escape, finance, torture, murder, mistress, fire, african american, childbirth, baby, captive, housekeeper, sadism, drunkenness, atrocity, miscegenation, deep south
Time: year 1969, 19th century
Place: southern usa, mississippi, kentucky

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and captivating films with plots about black, slavery, african american, slave, racism, plantation and interracial relations mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like Slaves: A Woman Called Moses (1978), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987), Roots: The Gift (1988), Nightjohn (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Woman Called Moses (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: A film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.
Style: political, tension
Plot: slavery, african american, civil war, racism, black, black cast, blaxploitation, women, civil rights, liberation theology, american civil war, grief ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 170 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Plot: slavery, slave, civil war, human exploitation, black, racism, exploitation, female whipping
Time: 19th century
Place: kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 ⇓
53%
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: slavery, interracial relations, black, interracial, racism, human spirit, society, hidden identity, rescue, dishonesty, chases and races, family relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1850s
Place: usa, virginia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Roots: The Gift (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In December 1775, Cletus Moyer is a free black Northerner in colonial America, helping slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters captures Moyer. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: christmas, slavery, african american, freedom, holiday, captive, civil war, black history, slave, human exploitation, black, racism ...
Place: africa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
 437
Nightjohn (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Charles Burnett directs this movie about John, a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: racism, slave, slavery, teaching, plantation, american civil war, human exploitation, civil rights, blaxploitation, racial issues, black, american history ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A House Divided (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive ...
Style: sincere, suspenseful, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot: slavery, white male black female relationship, slave, mixed race child, family relations, family secret, interracial relations, inheritance, racial prejudice, social injustice, racism, secret ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: black, american history, slavery, teacher, blaxploitation, african american, great depression, dysfunctional family, frame up, boycott, miscarriage of justice, black family ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Freedom (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: slave, slavery, freedom, ship, runaway, black, changing lives, fugitives, sea voyage, escape, bounty hunter, religion ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Journey of August King (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, tense, crying
Plot: slavery, morality, freedom, courage, loneliness, runaway, love, interracial, american civil war, black, interracial couple, american history ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
36%
The Long Song (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, costume drama, historical drama ...
Plot: plantation, slavery, slave girl, love affair, maid, freedom, black, male female relationship, social problems, female protagonist, relationship problems, slave ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s, regency period
Place: jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.7
 265
Beulah Land (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 281 min.
TV show
Story: This sweeping epic dramatized the lives of two Georgia families during the early-to-mid 1800s: the Kendricks, who resided on the Beulah Land plantation, and the Davises, who owned the Oaks plantation. Both families loved, prospered and lost during ...
Plot: plantation, american civil war, civil war, black, dysfunctional family, slavery, southern belle, brother, family disapproval
Time: 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 1K
Drum (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Style: serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: blaxploitation, slavery, black, interracial relations, erotica, interracial, human exploitation, slave, exploitation, prostitute, fight, couples ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1800s
Place: havana cuba, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
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Shadrach (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, sincere ...
Plot: slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, interracial, youth, suburbs, social justice, interracial relations, family relations, racial segregation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998
Place: virginia, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.2
 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 ⇓
29%
Down in the Delta (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style: touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, african american, storytelling, drug addiction, solace, black girl, anti racism, racism ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Style: disturbing, mondo, grindhouse, twisted, creepy ...
Plot: plantation, slavery, racism, time travel, exploitation, extreme, sadism, sexual abuse, blaxploitation, human exploitation, sex crime, african ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1850s, 1830s, 70s ...
Place: mississippi, detroit, memphis, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Gone Are the Days! (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To ...
Style: independent film
Plot: black, blaxploitation, plantation, sheriff, impersonation, black american, fraud, african american, maid, preacher, deputy, racism ...
Time: year 1963
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.9
 8K
Roots (2016)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 388 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave sold to America and his descendants.
Style: historical drama, captivating, sincere, suspense, rough ...
Plot: slavery, plantation, slave, mentor protege relationship, black, struggle for survival, black history, african american, parent child relationship, civil war, civil rights, humiliation ...
Time: victorian era, 18th century, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Female Slaves Revenge (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth.
Style: political
Plot: revenge, torture, bondage, exploitation, execution, slave, high heels, midnight
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Part 2, Sounder (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Style: independent film
Plot: canine, black, african american, family relations, depression, band
Time: year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 170
Dog Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: "Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot: american civil war, military, soldier, heroes, civil war, slave, plantation, dog, military enlistment, teenage boy, scout, black ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bitter Tropics (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: In late 18th-century Martinique, a plantation owner, his irresponsible young aristocratic wife and his beautiful black mistress are drawn into a spiral of violence that reflects all the horror and inhumanity of the perverse relations between masters ...
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: plantation, slavery, slave, love affair, marital problem, forbidden love, violence, husband wife relationship, mistress, male female relationship, social problems, love interest ...
Time: 18th century
Place: west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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, african american, soldier, vietnam veteran, murder, police, harmonica, jukebox, small town ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Dragonard (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: corporal punishment, sugarcane, human exploitation, adultery, slavery, punishment, sex scene, female nudity, caribbean sea, beefcake, sexploitation, death sentence ...
Time: 18th century
Place: caribbean, fictional island, jamaica, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.5
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Cru (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open ...
Audience: teens
Plot: black, life story, african american, high school, bare chested male, car crash, nudity, bare butt, car wreck, car accident, male nudity, male objectification ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
 6.8
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Cora Unashamed (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: From the short story by Langston Hughes.
Plot: father daughter relationship, life changing, interracial, loss of daughter, grief, housekeeper, death of child, racist, black american, servant, african american, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: midwest, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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