Topic: Racism
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Racism. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
Titles found: 852
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
Direction Robert Mulligan
Cast Gregory Peck · Mary Badham · Brock Peters · Phillip Alford
Plot The lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), decides to defend a black man (Brock Peters) undeservedly charged with raping a poor white woman. The bigoted townspeople would rather lynch the accused...
8.3
47K votes
8.3
47K votes
American History X
1998 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Tony Kaye
Cast Edward Norton · Edward Furlong · Fairuza Balk · Stacy Keach
Plot Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of...
8.3
149K votes
8.3
149K votes
Gran Torino
2008 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Christopher Carley · Bee Vang · Ahney Her
Plot Recently widowed, retired auto worker Walt Kowalski fills his days with home repair, beer and monthly trips to the barber. The people he once called his neighbors have all moved...
8.2
143K votes
8.2
143K votes
Nothing But a Man
1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Michael Roemer
Cast Ivan Dixon · Abbey Lincoln · Julius Harris · Gloria Foster
Plot Born in Birmingham, Duff Anderson, the father of a male toddler, who lives with a nanny, re-locates to a small town to work on the railroad. He meets with and...
8.1
23 votes
8.1
23 votes
The Searchers
1956 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Natalie Wood · Jeffrey Hunter · Ward Bond
Plot Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a case-hardened Civil War veteran, returns to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise...
8.0
31K votes
8.0
31K votes
The Chase
1966 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Penn
Cast Marlon Brando · Robert Redford · Angie Dickinson · Jane Fonda
Plot Tense drama unfolds in a small town after a local bad guy escapes prison, causing everyone to fear what will happen when secret lives come to light.
8.0
12K votes
8.0
12K votes
The Human Pyramid
1961 · Documentary · 90 min. · France
Direction Jean Rouch
Plot The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.
8.0
272 votes
8.0
272 votes
Django Unchained
2012 · Movie · 165 min. · United States
Direction Quentin Tarantino
Cast Jamie Foxx · Christoph Waltz · Leonardo DiCaprio · Kerry Washington
Plot With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. In the American South, two years before The Civil...
7.9
113K votes
7.9
113K votes
When They See Us (TV Miniseries)
2019 · Series · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ava DuVernay
Cast Jharrel Jerome · Aunjanue Ellis · Asante Blackk · Caleel Harris
Plot TV Miniseries (2019). 4 Episodes. In 1989 five teenagers of color who were accused of a rape in Central Park they did not commit. Based on a true story that...
7.9
11K votes
7.9
11K votes
This World Can't Tear Me Down
2023 · Series · 30 min. · Italy
Direction Zerocalcare
Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Zerocalcare
7.8
3K votes
7.8
3K votes
A Bronx Tale
1993 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Robert De Niro
Cast Robert De Niro · Chazz Palminteri · Lillo Brancato · Francis Capra
Plot Set in the 60s, Robert DeNiro stars in his directorial debut as Lorenzo Anello, a dutiful father and blue-collar bus driver from the harsh New York City borough of the...
7.8
42K votes
7.8
42K votes
The Knick (TV Series)
2014 · Series · 53 min. · United States
Direction Jack Amiel · Michael Begler · Steven Soderbergh
Cast Clive Owen · André Holland · Eve Hewson · Juliet Rylance
Plot TV Series (2014-2015). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth...
7.7
10K votes
7.7
10K votes
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast Brigitte Mira · El Hedi ben Salem · Barbara Valentin · Irm Hermann
Plot Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry,...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis
Plot One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great...
7.6
6K votes
7.6
6K votes
Green Book
2018 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Peter Farrelly
Cast Viggo Mortensen · Mahershala Ali · Iqbal Theba · Linda Cardellini
Plot A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an...
7.6
44K votes
7.6
44K votes
Crash
2004 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Paul Haggis
Cast Sandra Bullock · Don Cheadle · Matt Dillon · Jennifer Esposito
Plot Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this PowerBuilder drama. Graham (Don Cheadle) is a police detective whose...
7.6
105K votes
7.6
105K votes
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin McDonagh
Cast Frances McDormand · Woody Harrelson · Sam Rockwell · John Hawkes
Plot After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial...
7.6
48K votes
7.6
48K votes
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Sidney Poitier · Katharine Houghton
Plot Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the...
7.6
17K votes
7.6
17K votes
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Lee Grant
Plot When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential...
7.5
13K votes
7.5
13K votes
13th
2016 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States
Direction Ava DuVernay
Plot An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes