Topic: Racism

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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

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...

Max

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,...

Max

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