Movies Like

The Butler (2013)

7.3 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

Plot: usa president, the white house, butler, slavery, john f. kennedy, black panther party, racial segregation, martin luther king, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s, 1950s, ...

Cast

Spencer Tracy

Robert Ryan

Walter Brennan

Lee Marvin

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

7.3 421 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: NR

Story: One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

Plot: film noir, murder, racism, desert, based on short story, post world war ii, southwestern u.s., one armed man, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Tobey Maguire

Reese Witherspoon

William H. Macy

Joan Allen

Pleasantville (1998)

7.3 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

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 modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Plot: sibling relationship, dystopia, diner, satire, book burning, coming of age, racism, bathtub, ...

Time: 1950s

Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

7.3 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.

Plot: immigrant, martial arts, kung fu, fight, san francisco, california, chinatown, karate, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: california

Race (2016)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Canada, Germany

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Plot: berlin, germany, sports, olympic games, biography, historical figure, racism, track and field, ...

Gangsta. (2015) TV Show

7.3 132 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the crime-ridden, mafia-governed city of Ergastulum, Worick and Nicolas are two “handymen” known as “Benriya” who would take any dirty job from either police or mafia, for a good price. After an assignment from police the two met and later joined by Alex, a former prostitute who got interested in the mysterious background of the team, in particular of Nicolas’ abilities.

Plot: child abuse, underground, swordplay, kidnapping, gangster, secret organization, dystopia, police, ...

Cast

John Boyega

Will Poulter

Anthony Mackie

Algee Smith

Detroit (2017)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: R

Story: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

Plot: fire, police brutality, church choir, based on true story, beating, murder, racism, church, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Cleavon Little

Gene Wilder

Slim Pickens

Harvey Korman

Blazing Saddles (1974)

7.2 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Plot: governor, saloon, gun, parody, marching band, breaking the fourth wall, spoof, racism, ...

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Lilia Skala

Lisa Mann

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Isa Crino

Lilies of the Field (1963)

7.2 224 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

Plot: based on novel or book, nun, arizona, homelessness, farm life, chapel, religion, racism, ...

Heartbreak High (2022) TV Show

7.2 175 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Australia, Netherlands

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A fresh look at Hartley High over 20 years on. With her new friends - outsiders Quinni and Darren - Amerie must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.

Plot: transsexuality, sydney, australia, high school, racism, lgbt, reboot, teen drama, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Morgan Freeman

Matt Damon

Tony Kgoroge

Patrick Mofokeng

Invictus (2009)

7.2 4.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Plot: sports, stadium, apartheid, idealism, nelson mandela, based on true story, idealist, rugby, ...

Time: 1990s

Place: south africa

Cast

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Henry Cele

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Dudu Mkhize

Edward Fox

Robert Powell

Shaka Zulu (1986) TV Show

7.2 141 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Germany, South Africa

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-14

Story: South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.

Plot: africa, british empire, rise and fall, miniseries, racism, colonialism, cape town, south africa, ...

Time: 19th century

Place: south africa

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Webber

Ian Hart

Mark Leonard Winter

Escape from Pretoria (2020)

7.2 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: Australia, Canada

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

Plot: based on novel or book, political activism, apartheid, anc (african national congress), based on true story, racism, prison break, anti-racism, ...

Time: 1970s

Lovecraft Country (2020) TV Show

7.1 785 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

Plot: based on novel or book, war veteran, supernatural, road trip, racism, social thriller, cosmic horror, mob, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Tony Curtis

Sidney Poitier

Theodore Bikel

Charles McGraw

The Defiant Ones (1958)

7.1 326 votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

Plot: escape, mississippi river, freedom, hostility, swamp, bias, racist, escaped convict, ...

Cast

Ray Winstone

Mick Ford

Julian Firth

John Blundell

Scum (1979)

7.1 214 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Plot: prison, suicide, rape, corruption, controversy, riot, revenge, racism, ...

Place: england

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Cast

Shawn Wayans

Marlon Wayans

Tracey Cherelle Jones

Chris Spencer

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

7.1 1.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

Plot: hip-hop, slang, date, gangster, cousin, parody, social satire, hood, ...

Coup de Torchon (1981)

7.0 220 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: France

Duration: 128 min.

Story: A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Style: witty

Plot: adultery, based on novel or book, love triangle, dark comedy, murder, police corruption, mistress, racism, ...

Place: west africa

Cast

Felix Kramer

Fahri Yardu0131m

Katharina Schu00fcttler

Anna Maria Mu00fche

Dogs of Berlin (2018) TV Show

7.0 120 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption.

Plot: cheating, investigation, murder, beating, racism, biker gangs, clankriminalität, neonazi, ...

Cast

Sosuke Ikematsu

Minami Hamabe

Tasuku Emoto

Mirai Moriyama

Shin Kamen Rider (2023)

7.0 306 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?

Plot: superhero, race politics, secret organization, racism, based on manga, motorcycle, reboot, masked superhero, ...

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