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Origin (2023)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, writer Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: caste system, society, relationships, love story, class system, love interest, male female relationship, social problems, relationship problems, social issues, love affair, life is a bitch ...
Place: india, germany
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Hairspray Live! (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining
Plot: theater, dance, live performance, racism, fat girl, race, dream, equality, broadway, dancing, society, rivalry ...
Time: 60s, year 1962
Place: baltimore, maryland
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Christmas in Canaan (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.
Style: atmospheric, light, sentimental, captivating
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, childhood, racial prejudice, father son relationship, farm, african american, friendship, family relations, love, society, rivalry, holiday ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: texas, southern usa
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Style: independent film, political, social, black and white, aesthetic ...
Plot: african american, black, discrimination, drug addiction, blaxploitation, american south, racial slur, racism, love, social justice, social change, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa, birmingham alabama
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Charming the Hearts of Men (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires ...
Style: social, captivating
Plot: civil rights, women's rights, emancipation, society, social relations, social problems, social issues, political unrest, historical event, civil rights movement, discrimination, classism ...
Time: 60s
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 6.6
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Respect (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Style: captivating, uplifting, factual, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: biopic, rape, showbiz, blues, celebrity, african american, black, musician, concert, rising to stardom, fame, musician's life ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 2019, 1950s ...
Place: usa, los angeles, madison square garden manhattan new york city, atlanta georgia, paris france ...
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 6.4
 8K
Woodlawn (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s.A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.
Style: christian film, realistic, sincere, captivating, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: american football, racism, faith, coach, christianity, team, motivational speaker, christian, african american, church, high school, religion ...
Time: 70s
Place: alabama, birmingham alabama
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 5.9
 75K
Candyman (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, bloody, dark ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, strong violent content, urban decay, supernatural, african american, revenge, vengeful ghost, mirror, ghost, fear, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 2020s, year 1977, 2010s, 70s, year 2019
Place: chicago, usa, oceania
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 6.6
 15K
Luce (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Style: psychological, non-linear, suspense, thought provoking, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: social problems, track and field, cheerleader, african american, interracial, trust, mistrust, public speaking, drunkenness, drinking, independence day, doubt ...
Place: ohio, middle east
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No Place Like Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two ...
Style: inspirational, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: homeless shelter, coming of age, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, homeless, youth, family relations, homeless woman, homeless man, daughter, children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
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 8K
LBJ (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
Style: political, serious, suspense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: civil rights, u.s. president, politics, biopic, husband wife relationship, society, american politics, campaign, candidate, election, john f. kennedy, white supremacy ...
Time: year 1960, 60s, year 1959, year 1968, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., georgia, west virginia, dallas texas, wyoming ...
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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Students from Zombietown are transferred to a high school in a suburban town preoccupied with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies.
Style: romantic, humorous, entertaining, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids
Plot: zombie, high school, teenage life, teenager, cheerleader, couples, friendship, friends, love and romance, love, sexy teenager, fall in love ...
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The Shape of Water (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Style: touching, fairy tale, romantic, biting, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: sign language, creature, love story, interspecies romance, supernatural, female protagonist, rescue, laboratory, cold war, interspecies sex, scientist, water ...
Time: 2010s, year 1962, year 2017, 60s, future
Place: maryland, america, los angeles, baltimore, usa ...
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 201K
Bright (2017)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
Style: light, tense, suspense, mystic, captivating ...
Plot: buddy cop, police, interracial couple, elf, alternate world, magical, chase, police partner, two man army, magic, creature, supernatural power ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: los angeles
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: split personality, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, racism, dancer, illness, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, identity crisis, power relations, multiple personality disorder, go go dancer ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 70s, 1950s, year 1957
Place: usa, los angeles
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Free, White and 21 (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: civil rights, racist, interracial relations, jury, courtroom, rape, segregation, false accusation, businessman, trial, cross cultural relations, criminal ...
Place: texas
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Future Schlock (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a future time when middle-class, Stepford-type suburbanites have triumphed over individualists and non-conformists and made them prisoner, two vanquished but not defeated non-conformists carry on the fight as best they can.
Style: surreal, experimental, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot: government, ghetto, middle class, female nudity, nudity, sex scene, police officer, satire, rebel, post civil war, live performance, corvette ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne
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The Ernest Green Story (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
Audience: teens
Plot: civil rights, african american, high school, school, interracial relations, vandalism, racial tension, civil rights movement, graduation, strength, segregation, teen angst ...
Time: 1950s
Place: arkansas
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Mutiny (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three weeks later, 50 survivors were court-martialed for refusing to load another shipment. The men cited the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: ship, world war two, boot camp, injustice, power relations, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, military, legal action, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 1940s
Place: san francisco
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: racism, black, african american, dentist, interracial relations, discrimination, biopic, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle, journalism, society ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, new york
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Bad Girls (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: lesbian, women's prison, lesbianism, prison, lgbtq, prison sex, gays and lesbians, sex, nypd, pop culture, sapphic, justice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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The Trip to Bountiful (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house.
Style: sentimental, realistic, captivating, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, getting home, redemption, elderly, escapades, journey, childhood home, female protagonist, african american, memories, black lives matter ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place: texas, usa, houston texas
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime ...
Style: neo noir, slapstick comedy, surreal, detective, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: private detective, rabbit, falsely accused, childhood, femme fatale, sexy woman, investigation, false accusation, frame up, parallel world, murder, satire ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s, 1940s, year 1947 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america
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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
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Pleasantville (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, visual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, utopia, siblings relations, american dream, fantasy world, small town life, parallel universe ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: america, france, paris france
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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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Insurgent (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
Style: exciting, teen, futuristic, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, tough girl, teenager, strong female lead, chosen one, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, dystopian future, good versus evil, rebellion, female fighter ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, near future
Place: chicago
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in ...
Style: thought provoking, exciting, suspense, intellectual, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, girls' night, adult
Plot: ape, gorilla, planet of the apes, rebelliousness, dystopia, rebellion, chimpanzee, animal testing, imaginary, animal, virus, animal cruelty ...
Time: future, year 2011, jurassic, 2010s, near future ...
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Style: intense, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mob boss, chase, organized crime, mafia, prison, biopic, heist, character study, against the rules, notoriety, realism ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2008, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band ...
Style: humorous, feel good, mockumentary, not serious, black and white ...
Audience: kids
Plot: the beatles, music, rock and roll, artists and showbiz, musician, rock, fame, culture clash, train, lifestyle, dancing, musician's life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, britain, europe, united kingdom, england
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