Movies like Till

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Till (2022)
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Till (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: murder, mother, son, women, relationship problems, bereavement, funeral, grief, black, black history, racist, death of son, abduction, train, food, life, kidnapping, torture, photographer, court, racial discrimination, church, boy, father, judge ...
Time: year 1955, 50s, 2020s, 1950s
Place: chicago, harlem, mississippi, harlem manhattan new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, inspirational, serious and captivating films with plots about african american, murder, biopic, civil rights, black, racism and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Till: Marshall (2017), The Best of Enemies (2019), Harriet (2019), The Hate U Give (2018), Just Mercy (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Marshall (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: lawyer, court, racism, courtroom, injustice, african american, racial segregation, trial, jury, african american protagonist, courtroom drama, black history ...
Time: 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1967, year 1954
Place: new york, connecticut, philadelphia, maryland, mississippi ...
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The Best of Enemies (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of the real-life unlikely relationship between an outspoken civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader in 1971 North Carolina.
Style: rough, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: interracial friendship, civil rights, human spirit, human rights, racism, black, tiredness, name calling, african american, danger, court, interracial relations ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, year 2005, year 2016
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Harriet (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.
Style: thought provoking, costume drama, tense, historical drama, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: african american, slavery, black history, american civil war, female protagonist, freedom, female warrior, black, black woman, biopic, civil war, resistance fighter ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019
Place: southern usa, philadelphia, baltimore, south carolina, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hate U Give (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
Style: hood, captivating, social, sad, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: racism, ghetto, african american, father daughter relationship, black, black lives matter, father son relationship, private school, loss of friend, coming of age, black history, teenager ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.
Style: tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: atheist, single mother, religion, activist, dysfunctional family, biopic, investigation, woman, reporter, women, mother son relationship, life philosophy ...
Time: year 1969, year 1960, year 1955, year 1991, year 1963 ...
Place: texas, new zealand, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Just Mercy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, death penalty, injustice, false accusation of murder, defense attorney, african american, perjury, prison, murder, innocence, death row ...
Time: year 1987, 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1993 ...
Place: alabama
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31%
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Style: political, inspirational, philosophical, social, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: violence, civil rights, betrayal, politics, murder, prison, black history, black, african american, racism, justice, betrayal by friend ...
Time: 2020s, year 1968, 60s
Place: chicago, hawaii, nebraska, new haven connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Argentina, 1985 (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Argentina, UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In a David-vs-Goliath battle and under constant threat, Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young legal team of unlikely heroes dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, iconic
Plot: military dictatorship, court, lawyer, courtroom, investigation, trial, politics, murder, attorney, legal action, courtroom drama, advocate ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, year 1984
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Detroit (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style: suspense, hood, social, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot: racism, murder, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, police, riot, trial, violence, fear, motel, african american ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, year 2017, 2010s, year 1969 ...
Place: michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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In Cold Blood (1967)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their ...
Style: black and white, disturbing, suspense, neo noir, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, true crime, killer, execution, death row, death penalty, courtroom drama, lawyer, investigation, justice, jazz ...
Time: 50s, year 1967, year 1965, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: kansas, america, usa, missouri, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith, of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung ...
Style: inspirational, talky, factual, compassionate, intense ...
Plot: racism, courtroom drama, courtroom, civil rights, legal, lawyer, racial violence, court, african american, racial discrimination, legal investigation, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: mississippi, usa, america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A United Kingdom (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. ...
Style: romantic drama, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: interracial marriage, forbidden love, racism, interracial romance, politics, royal family, equality, marriage, freedom, justice, reporter, democracy ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 2016, year 1947
Place: africa, south africa, indiana, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Style: inspirational, independent film, touching, realistic, political ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, civil rights, segregation, african american, friendship, women, ku klux klan, race issues, social commentary, black, racial segregation, boycott ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955, 20th century, 50s
Place: alabama, america, usa, southern usa
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21%
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Capote (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
Style: captivating, dramatic, dark, talky, psychological ...
Plot: writers, prison, biopic, literature, journalism, murder, moral dilemma, murderer, investigation, eccentricity, manipulation, friendship ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 1960, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: kansas, usa, new york, europe, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Malcolm X (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 202 min.
Story: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left ...
Style: inspirational, political, factual, intense, stylized ...
Plot: civil rights, racism, politics, african american, black history, civil rights movement, assassination, biopic, islam, childhood, society, prison ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s, 60s, 50s ...
Place: usa, africa, new york, nebraska, indiana ...
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21%
The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: racism, civil rights, american history, rebel, black, revolutionary, church, racial violence, hopes, rebellion, military, fighting the system ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
Style: political
Plot: civil rights, racism, american south, black, african american, murder, husband wife relationship, interracial relations, domestic terrorism, racial tension, racial discrimination, interracial friendship ...
Time: 60s
Place: mississippi, america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Changeling (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, fighting the system, missing child, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, disorder, trial, kidnapped child, corruption ...
Time: 1920s, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, year 1935 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: slavery, racism, survival, civil rights, torture, african american, freedom, american history, life is a bitch, black history, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, year 2013, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: louisiana, new orleans, america, africa, usa ...
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20%
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style: suspense, political, disturbing, realistic, political thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, small town, civil rights, african american, police, ku klux klan, investigation, murder, deep south, racial slur, discrimination, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1988, year 1964
Place: mississippi, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Conviction (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, trial, fighting the system, prison, injustice, false accusation, court, strong female character, freedom, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 1992, year 2001 ...
Place: massachusetts, rhode island, usa
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20%
A Thousand and One (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, serious, dramatic ...
Plot: mother son relationship, parent child relationship, son, abduction, foster home, domestic drama, kidnapping, foster child, adopted son, runaway, mother son reunion, mother and son ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, year 2001
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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20%
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Burden (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Burden, an orphan raised within the Ku Klux Klan, attempts to break away when the girl he falls in love with urges him to leave for a better life together. When the Klan seeks Mike out for vengeance, a black congregation led by the benevolent, ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, emotional, political
Plot: love, african american, reverend, vengeance, ku klux klan, hate, racism, prejudice, neo nazi, civil rights, black history, deep south ...
Time: year 1996, year 2017
Place: south carolina, pearl harbor, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Selma (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights ...
Style: political, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: racism, civil rights, politics, civil rights movement, african american, justice, biopic, racial discrimination, discrimination, idealism, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time: 60s, year 2014, 20th century, 2010s, year 1964 ...
Place: alabama, indiana, usa, southern usa, birmingham alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Confirmation (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
Style: political, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, supreme court, court, black history, black, sexual harassment, congressional hearing, secret past, investigation, legal investigation, court hearing, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Catch a Fire (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an ...
Style: tense, political, factual, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: terrorism, racism, politics, rebellion, fighting the system, apartheid, police brutality, civil rights, visceral, ethnic conflict, political unrest, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2006, year 1980, year 1991 ...
Place: south africa, africa, angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
Style: emotional, sad, hood, intense, heartbreaking ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: racism, african american, police brutality, black, black history, introspection, civil rights, black lives matter, character study, new year's eve, tragic hero, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2007, year 2009 ...
Place: california, new york, usa, san francisco, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Butler (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Style: touching, inspirational, political, emotional, factual ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: racism, civil rights, president, u.s. president, black history, butler, african american, injustice, father son relationship, white house, biopic, civil rights movement ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 70s, 2010s, 60s ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, tennessee, america, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.8
 428K
The Irishman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story: A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, inspirational, crime drama ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, labor union, italian mafia, murder, killer as protagonist, high society, hitman, mob hit, criminal as protagonist, male protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, ireland, chicago, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling ...
Style: suspense, inspirational, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, court, murder, african american, civil rights, black, trial, moral dilemma, idealist, execution, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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