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Movies: Best "racial tension" Movies


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A Time to Kill(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 29min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,090 votes)

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

The Burial(2023)

2h 6min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 125 votes)

When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.

42(2013)

FSK: 0+ years
| 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.

Freedom Writers(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 967 votes)

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

You People(2023)

2.9/5 (with 291 votes)

A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.

Gladiator(1992)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 41min | Action, Drama
3.8/5 (with 133 votes)

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.

Neighboring Sounds(2012)

2h 11min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 94 votes)

Life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighbour’s dog. A slice of ‘Braziliana’, a reflection on history, violence and noise.

Rampart(2011)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 152 votes)

Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.

Posse(1993)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Western
2.7/5 (with 30 votes)

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.

Black Mama, White Mama(1973)

1h 27min | Action
2.8/5 (with 31 votes)

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.

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, ...

O.J.: Made in America(2016)

4.2/5 (with 93 votes)

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

Directed by Ezra Edelman
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Ajami(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.

Directed by Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani - With Fouad Habash, Scandar Copti, Noa Lazar

Fiza(2000)

2h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

In 1993 Fiza's brother disappears during the riots in Mumbai. In 1999 Fiza is tired of waiting and goes looking for him.

Boycott(2001)

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

… tick… tick… tick…(1970)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Point Man(2018)

1h 47min | Action, War
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.

Native Son(1986)

1h 51min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Mandela(1996)

1h 58min | Documentary, History
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and for bringing an end to apartheid. But this film also sheds light on the little-known early period of Mandela's life.

Directed by Angus Gibson, Jo Menell

And the Children Shall Lead(1985)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.

Brother John(1971)

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.

Short Walk to Daylight(1972)

1h 13min | Drama, TV Movie, Action
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

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

The Liberation of L.B. Jones(1970)

1h 42min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.

I Proud to Be an Indian(2004)

2h 9min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Indian (Sohail Khan), or I, as he goes by, is distraught when he must move to London with his father in order to live with the rest of his family, who have been living in England for a while. Once there, I begins to realize that many of the minority families are being bullied by white skinheads, and he decides he must get involved in order to stop the cycle of hatred.

Directed by Puneet Sira - With Sohail Khan

Black Indians: An American Story(2004)

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.

Unconquered(1989)

1h 53min | Drama, TV Movie
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.

Directed by Dick Lowry - With Dermot Mulroney

New Orleans(1947)

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.

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.

The Unbeliever(1918)

1h 20min | War, Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

Directed by Alan Crosland - With Raymond McKee
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