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The Price of Sugar (2013)
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The Price of Sugar (2013)
Original name: Hoe Duur Was de Suiker
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?
Style: touching, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: slavery, half sister, plantation, imperialism, slave auction, first love, marriage, rebelliousness, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, master and servant, colony, resistance, social injustice, black, black man, struggle, dutch history, female nudity, slave, parents and children, interracial relations, strong female presence ...
Time: 18th century
Place: latin america, caribbean
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about society, life is a bitch, family relations, interracial relations, racism, injustice and slavery mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Price of Sugar: Roots (1977), Tula: The Revolt (2013), The Last Supper (1976), The Amazing Grace (2006), A City of Sadness (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Roots (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 588 min.
TV show
Story: African teen Kunta Kinte, brought to America to be enslaved, and the generations of his family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, uplifting, suspense ...
Plot: slavery, racism, civil war, american civil war, family history, human spirit, slave trade, african american, american south, escape attempt, black, justice ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, 1860s ...
Place: africa, usa, america, tennessee
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100%
Tula: The Revolt (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 'Tula, The Revolt' is an international English spoken feature length movie about the leader of the big slave uprising on the island of Curacao, a Dutch colony in 1795.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental
Plot: rebellion, rebelliousness, heroes, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, revolution, injustice, political unrest, peaceful mission, interracial relations, master and servant ...
Time: 18th century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Last Supper (1976)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Cuba
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
Style: psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Plot: racism, catholic, religion, rebellion, blaxploitation, restaurant, human exploitation, food, christian, christianity, slavery, plantation ...
Time: 18th century
Place: cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
Style: edutainment, political, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: racism, slavery, african american, american history, civil war, black history, slave, american civil war, blaxploitation, civil rights, black, chase ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america, canada, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Amazing Grace (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: John Newton is captain of a slave ship moored off the coast of Nigeria. He stands at a crossroads in his life, his morality and religion at odds with the brutality of his chosen profession. Stepping ashore, he starts on a journey of redemption that ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, epic
Plot: righting the wronged, fighting the system, introspection, hopes, interracial relations, life is a bitch, escapades, state affairs, moral dilemma, injustice, self discovery, politics ...
Time: 18th century
Place: nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A City of Sadness (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Soon after Japan relinquishes control of Taiwan in 1945, the Lin brothers face hardships from the changing culture. Bar owner Wen-heung (Chen Sown-yung), the eldest brother, falls foul of local gangsters, Wen-sun disappears, and Wen-leung, scarred ...
Style: realistic, saga, sad, black and white, aesthetic ...
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, family life, political unrest, wartime life, siblings relations, family tradition, black market, family in danger, family problems, state affairs, society ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: taiwan, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Mandingo (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
Style: realistic, sexy, serious, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: slavery, interracial relations, racism, interracial romance, slave trade, slave auction, plantation, interracial sex, slave girl, blaxploitation, gambling, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 1840s
Place: usa, america, new orleans, louisiana, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
46%
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The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling ...
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: repression, confession, family relations, survival, life is a bitch, spanish civil war, republican, society, soldier, obsession, clergy, love and romance ...
Place: spain, galicia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Book of Negroes (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 265 min.
TV show
Story: Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the 19th century.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, human spirit, racism, life is a bitch, hopes, injustice, escapades, confined, society, american revolution, black history, black ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century
Place: south carolina, usa, africa, america, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Middle Passage (2000)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route
Style: sentimental, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot: slavery, genocide, slave trade, social injustice, human rights, captive, slave, prisoner, freedom, revolt, racism, protest ...
Place: atlantic ocean, africa, senegal
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Black Shack Alley (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: black, youth, women of color, african, international relations, blaxploitation, racial issues, woman, boy, grandmother, school, poverty ...
Time: 1930s, year 1983
Place: indiana, africa, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
King of the Hill (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a ...
Style: touching, realistic, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Plot: coming of age, hotel, childhood, dysfunctional family, against the odds, loneliness, child's point of view, children, family problems, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career, couples, family relations, medieval, unrequited love, girlfriend, social problems, tradition, female friendship ...
Time: 19th century, year 2011, future, victorian era
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
42%
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Religion (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapoor) who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, thinking ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: hindu, adoption, religion, clergy, salvation, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, babies and infants, family problems, priest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, esoteric ...
Plot: rebellion, christianity, rebel, political unrest, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, religions or cults, state affairs, tragic event, indigenous people, war ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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White Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: missing child, young heroes, danger, youth, racism, society, family problems, parents and children, discrimination, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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A Minor Leap Down (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, thought provoking
Plot: rebellion, society, rebelliousness, family relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, miscarriage, strong female presence, pregnancy, politics, depression, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Im Kölner Stadtteil Ehrenfeld lebt eine Gruppe von Arbeiterkindern kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihren ganz eigenen Alltag. Die selbsternannten „Edelweißpiraten“ träumen von einer gerechten Welt und sehnen sich nach der unbeschwerten ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: resistance, wartime life, world war two, young heroes, human spirit, rebellion, idealism, life is a bitch, against humanity, rebelliousness, danger, confined ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ⇓
41%
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Choco (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: optimism, family relations, family problems, hopes, society, parents and children, unemployment, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, colombia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ⇓
41%
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In ...
Style: political, epic, captivating, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: civil rights, african american, racism, slavery, black, journalism, discrimination, blaxploitation, female protagonist, plantation, interracial relations, black lives matter ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 19th century, 1890s, 1920s ...
Place: southern usa, america, louisiana, usa, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: youth, interracial relations, racism, friendship, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, human spirit, hopes, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Snow Pirates (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the shadow of the military coup in 1980, these children aged 12-13, playing their childish games soon arrive at an understanding of life's responsibilities and are hastily introduced into the world of the grownups.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak
Plot: self discovery, friendship, youth, society, life is a bitch, small town, dystopia, coming of age, friends, children
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Hidden Life (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: social differences, country girl, master and servant, society, youth, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, city life, relationships, lifestyle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Aristocrats (1999)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution.
Style: period piece, captivating, serious, historical drama, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: master and servant, rich and poor, high society, aristocracy, royal family, family relations, royalty, society, intrigue, politics, siblings relations, state affairs ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place: england, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the 16th century in the CĂ©vennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, action adventure ...
Plot: revolution, injustice, medieval, folk hero, rebellion, murder, vengeance, rebelliousness, loss of wife, life is a bitch, society, righting the wronged ...
Time: 16th century, future, 2010s, medieval times, year 2013
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Les Miserables (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
Style: fairy tale, social, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: french revolution, napoleonic era, peplum, broadway, revenge, catholic, historical event, redemption, tragic love, unrequited love, falsely accused, mother love ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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