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As Summers Die (1986)
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As Summers Die (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Style: political, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film
Plot: old woman, trial, interracial relations, racism, rich and poor, life is a bitch, injustice, legal, society, family problems, small town, social relations, idealism, dedicated lawyer, lawyer, family relations, african american, oil, racist, greed, american south, social injustice, niece, courtroom, civil rights ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, georgia, southern usa, louisiana
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, society, racism, interracial relations, family relations, injustice and small town mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like As Summers Die: Sudie and Simpson (1990), A Gathering of Old Men (1987), A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999), White Water (2015), Blood Done Sign My Name (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sudie and Simpson (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: youth, black, false accusation, racism, interracial relations, small town, friendship, small town life, discrimination, coming of age, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time: 1940s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
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A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: civil rights, black, racism, old man, false accusation, false arrest, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, friendship, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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38%
A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: murder, false accusation, small town, racism, life is a bitch, legal, society, dishonesty, courtroom, social relations, price of justice, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: vermont, usa, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
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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
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31%
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Heart of Dixie (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.
Style: independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fraternity, sorority, coming of age, interracial relations, racism, college, injustice, society, love and romance, journalism, hopes, youth ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
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29%
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Paris Trout (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married ...
Style: neo noir, biting, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: children, lawyer, abusive relationship, relationships, law, marital rape, nudity, family relations, racism, small town, redneck, abusive husband ...
Time: 1940s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
28%
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The Runaway (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, social relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, lifestyle, society, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
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27%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Color of Justice (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four young black men kill a white woman, the D.A. is very cautious in how to proceed...
Style: tense, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, racism, interracial relations, courtroom, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, couple relations, follow your dream, black, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, america, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: erotica, african american, farm, family relations, racism, interracial relations, small town, racial segregation, social relations, battles, parents and children, culture clash ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: georgia, usa, louisiana, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: racism, african american, blaxploitation, youth, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet, dignity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Sound and the Fury (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, family life, siblings, mental retardation, suicide ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
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25%
Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, detective ...
Plot: trial, true crime, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, legal, dedicated lawyer, obsession, courtroom, life is a bitch, law, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mending Fences (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 399
Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Once They Marched Through a Thousand Towns (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
Style: political, contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: holocaust, courtroom drama, lawyer, aging, grief, suburbs, civil rights, injustice, religions or cults, hopes, politics, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Esther Cimino, a music teacher who has reached retirement age, finds that her mental faculties are slipping somewhat. The film is a trenchant, realistic study of the ravages and displacements, socially, physically, and mentally, that are visited ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: aging, bondage, courtroom, pianist, family problems, social relations, family relations, legal action, human nature, society, elderly lovers, legal ...
Time: 80s
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21%
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot: murder, trial, teenage daughter, betrayal, courtroom, lawyer, drug addiction, marriage, investigation, family relations, haunted by the past, custody ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco
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21%
One Angry Juror (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: murder, courtroom, investigation, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, trial, prosecutor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
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Timepiece (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot: racism, christmas, faith, murder, self defense, family relations, false accusation, family life, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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
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21%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
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20%
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The Intruder (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: racism, civil rights, african, american south, exploitation, blaxploitation, racial issues, ethnic, deep south, ethnicity, small town, false accusation ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, self discovery, family life, family problems, society, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The World Made Straight (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot: civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, family relations, hopes, youth, coming of age, massacre ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Cries from the Heart (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama directed by Michael Switzer.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: autism, mentally challenged, children, youth, sexual abuse, child molester, family problems, power relations, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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