Racial tension movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant racial tension movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, dramatic, tense and political films and TV shows about / with racial tension, racism, african american, society, interracial relations, black, prejudice, violence, corruption and chase plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as racial tension: A Time to Kill (1996), Remember the Titans (2000), Detroit (2017), Crash (2004), Little Fires Everywhere (2020), In the Heat of the Night (1967), The System (2018), Mississippi Burning (1988), You People (2023), Black Mama White Mama (1973).
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List of racial tension movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, tense, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
racism, courtroom drama, court, justice, trial, courtroom, small town, lawyer, rape, revenge, murder, legal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, canada
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
racism, high school, african american, american football, civil rights, racial tension, racial prejudice, against the odds, high school football, football, prejudice, life lesson ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place:
virginia, boston, usa, america, africa ...
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59K
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, social, hood, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
racism, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, trial, fear, motel, murder, african american, revenge, racial segregation, looting ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1967, 2010s, year 1969, year 1943 ...
Place:
detroit, michigan
Is relevant?
461K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in ...
Style:
suspense, social, captivating, psychological, intellectual ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
strong female character, female protagonist, conflict, racial tension, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, female artist, family relations, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, social differences, lesbian teen ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, detective, intense ...
Plot:
racism, small town, prejudice, african american, murder mystery, racial tension, police officer, police procedural, civil rights, false accusation, police, murder ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa, north carolina, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Vastly different lives and perspectives become intertwined after a police officer suffering from reoccurring PTSD mistakenly shoots a deaf African-American kid, exposing layers of racial tension and corruption within the political, judicial and ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
racial tension, corruption, deaf, racism, police officer, prejudice, racial injustice, post traumatic stress disorder, african american, deafness, social justice, ptsd ...
Is relevant?
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:
political thriller, southern gothic, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, small town, police, civil rights, african american, ku klux klan, murder, politics, deep south, investigation, racial prejudice, racial segregation ...
Time:
year 1964, 20th century, 60s, year 1988
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, america, usa, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
Style:
entertaining, thrilling, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
racial tension, interracial relations, love, family relations, parents, african american, couples, generation gap, love affair, relationship problems, love interest, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, palm springs california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight ...
Style:
grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, women in prison, prostitute, prison, lesbian, female exploitation, female prisoner, female voyeur, women's prison, vigilante, massage, sexual perversion ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
the philippines, asia
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
Style:
sweet, teen, romantic, feel good, cute ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, interracial romance, high school, dance, ballet, dancer's life, hip hop, african american, teenage girl, street dance, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, usa, new york, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, realistic, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, sex scene, interracial romance, electric chair, death penalty, prison, interracial sex, prison guard, dysfunctional family, death row, sex, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, southern usa, georgia
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145K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style:
rom com, romantic, teen, cute, lyrical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
dance, dancing, dream come true, teenage girl, artists and showbiz, fat girl, teenage love, interracial romance, racism, broadway, follow your dream, music ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 60s, year 1962, 2000s
Place:
baltimore, usa, maryland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, prom, teenage life, society, youth, lifestyle, friendship, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Cyprus, Belgium, Lebanon, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Style:
political, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, trial, attorney, prejudice, racial tension, insult, court case, idealism, media coverage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, maghreb, palestine, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
In the Bendigo Goldfields in 1855, the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp suddenly finds himself struggling to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers and authorities when a murdered European woman is discovered ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, stylized, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gold rush, racial tension, murder, cultural conflict, interracial relations, prejudice, society, community, murder of a woman, gold, golddigger, murder investigation ...
Time:
1850s, 19th century
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
540
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, serious, suspense
Plot:
vietnam war, racial tension, commander, anti war, rescue, military life, battles, soldier, battlefield, u.s. army, battle zone, elimination ...
Time:
60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community
Style:
emotional, talky, psychological, comedy drama, multicultural
Plot:
high school, gay teenager, teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, unrequited love, coming of age, racial tension, dysfunctional family, gay, family relations, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern england, england, yorkshire
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, captivating, psychological, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
young adult, college, social justice, black, racism, racial tension, black lives matter, gay, friends, love and romance, life philosophy, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
indiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, post-horror ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, neighbor, male nudity, vigilantism, social decay, class differences, dull life, society, life is a bitch, racial tension, petty criminal, rich and poor ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Is relevant?
525K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of ...
Style:
multicultural, sincere, touching, suspense, sociological ...
Plot:
nationalism, sociology, human trafficking, criminal underworld, immigration, racial tension, manhunt, tolerance, on the run, society, gang, culture ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
australia, austria, china, oceania
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches them that life is debate and DEBATE IS WAR.
Style:
serious, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school student, debate, high school, racial tension, father son relationship, teacher, neglect, homosexual, competition, dysfunctional family, suicide attempt, abuse ...
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. ...
Style:
social, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, sexual assault, white male black female relationship, racial issues, interracial romance, racial tension, rape, blaxploitation, lawyer, sexual abuse, murder, adultery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, america, usa
Is relevant?
123K
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, factual, historical drama ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
racism, president, u.s. president, civil rights, black history, racial discrimination, butler, injustice, african american, politics, civil rights movement, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2013, 60s, year 1961 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, birmingham alabama, nashville tennessee, america ...
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527
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Style:
tense, historical drama, period piece, dramatic, emotional
Plot:
racial tension, violence, bigotry, historical event, civil rights, confrontation, police protection, riot, moral dilemma, urban, realism, courage ...
Time:
70s
Place:
boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, inspirational, melancholic, light ...
Plot:
magic, small town, ethnic conflict, magic realism, justice, greed, small town life, village life, politics, culture clash, racial tension, farm ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new mexico, usa, texas, mexico, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Story of the federally-ordered integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, dramatic, bleak ...
Plot:
civil rights, racial tension, segregation, social justice, female protagonist, moral dilemma, bravery, legal battle, courage, biopic, national guard, leadership ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
arkansas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: China, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
Style:
suspense, scary, saga, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival horror, killing spree, immigrant, social decay, desert, civil war, racist, racism, murder, dystopia, pregnant woman, distopia ...
Time:
2040s, 2020s, near future, 21st century
Place:
mexico, el paso texas, texas, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the ...
Style:
factual, realistic, tense, intense, talky ...
Plot:
politics, racism, closeted homosexual, civil rights, president, u.s. president, african american, propaganda, biopic, election, civil rights movement, usa president ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1963, 60s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, america, vietnam, usa ...
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