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Zootopia(2016)

3.9/5 (with 7,380 votes)

Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.

42(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 8min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 787 votes)

The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film follows the innovative Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show.

Sayonara(1957)

2h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 54 votes)

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Ernest & Celestine(2012)

3.9/5 (with 258 votes)

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

The Nightingale(2018)

R
| 2h 16min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 222 votes)

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Gentleman's Agreement(1947)

PG
| 1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 98 votes)

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

The Hurricane(1937)

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.

A Raisin in the Sun(1961)

3.9/5 (with 50 votes)

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

Directed by Daniel Petrie - With Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Stephen Perry, Ivan Dixon, ...

The Alcove(1985)

2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal (Laura Gemser), the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra (Lili Carati) has formed a relationship with Elio’s otherwise frigid secretary Velma (Annie Belle) who is less than pleased at Elio’s return.

Directed by Joe D'Amato - With Lilli Carati, Annie Belle, Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, Roberto Caruso, Nello Pazzafini, ...

Sapphire(1959)

NR
| 1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 19 votes)

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the investigators wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

In This Our Life(1942)

NR
| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

Fremont(2023)

NR
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

Directed by Babak Jalali - With Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington, Jeremy Allen White
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Boycott(2001)

PG
| 1h 58min | History, Drama, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Directed by Clark Johnson - With Jeffrey Wright

Good Fences(2003)

R
| 1h 59min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Directed by Ernest Dickerson - With Danny Glover

… tick… tick… tick…(1970)

PG-13
| 1h 40min | Drama, Action
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Son of the Gods(1930)

1h 30min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.

Come Back, Africa(1959)

1h 35min | Documentary, Drama
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Directed by Lionel Rogosin - With Miriam Makeba

The Wikipedia Promise(2021)

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?

Directed by Jascha Hannover, Lorenza Castella - With Katherine Maher, Jimmy Wales, Andrew Keen, Felix Nartey, May Hachem, Achim Raschka, ...

Black Indians: An American Story(2004)

NR
| 1h | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their cultures to work and live together while mainstream white society shunned them. Through illuminating anecdotes and interviews, descendants of fused black and Indian families discuss the complications of their mixed heritage and how their culture was largely erased on official documents.

No Down Payment(1957)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.

Overseas and Under Your Skin(2009)

1h 26min | Drama, Comedy
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?

Directed by Lenka Hellstedt

Deadly Breed(1989)

1h 30min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The flames of racism burn hot as a murderous band of skinheads wreak havoc on the Los Angeles landscape and only one man can put an end to their explosive evil. Stars Blake Bahner, William Smith, Addison Randall.

Change of Mind(1969)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.

The Color of Fear(1994)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States. The exchange is sometimes dramatic as they lay bare the pain that racism in the US has caused them.

Jafar(2011)

3min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Did you ever realise some people that would not sit next to them in a bus, or talk them. We eve hesitate to have a loot at this people but stare secretly. Sometimes those people against whom we have a lot of prejudices, are a part of our society, we just don't realise that, until we face some circumstances and really look into those people...

The Great White of Lambarene(1995)

1h 34min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.

Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio

Gaysian(2013)

9min | Comedy

Three men explore how everyone brings different prejudices into dating.

Erna, Helmut and the Nazis(2021)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.

Unexpected Journey(2017)

1h 18min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn't have the money to buy the ticket.

This World Is Not My Own(2023)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south - it's all part of Nellie Mae Rowe's boundless universe. This World Is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist's world and her life spanning the 20th century.

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