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Killers of the Flower Moon(2023)

R
| 5h 6min | Crime, Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 479 votes)

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Green Book(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 4,969 votes)

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Exodus: Gods and Kings(2014)

PG-13
| 2h 30min | Adventure, Drama, Action
2.9/5 (with 2,062 votes)

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

Django Unchained(2012)

R
| 2h 45min | Drama, Western
4.1/5 (with 12,444 votes)

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Hidden Figures(2016)

PG
| 2h 7min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 4,514 votes)

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

The Help(2011)

PG-13
| 2h 26min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 3,547 votes)

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

District 9(2009)

R
| 1h 52min | Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 4,205 votes)

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

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

R
| 1h 29min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 537 votes)

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?

Bound by Honor(1993)

4.0/5 (with 517 votes)

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,184 votes)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017)

R
| 1h 55min | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,593 votes)

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Fruitvale Station(2013)

R
| 1h 22min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 561 votes)

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

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La Haine(1995)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,833 votes)

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

Fences(2016)

PG-13
| 2h 19min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 1,196 votes)

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

Escape from Pretoria(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 533 votes)

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.

Directed by Francis Annan - With Daniel Radcliffe, Tim Jenkin, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber, ...

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank(2022)

3.4/5 (with 111 votes)

A hard-on-his-luck hound finds himself in a town full of cats in need of a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's wicked plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant mentor, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.

Serial (Bad) Weddings(2014)

PG
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1,582 votes)

A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.

Detroit(2017)

R
| 2h 23min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, History
3.7/5 (with 737 votes)

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

Porky's(1981)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 364 votes)

Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to lose their virginity which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Mississippi Burning(1988)

R
| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, History, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 691 votes)

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Empire of Light(2022)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 154 votes)

The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

Directed by Sam Mendes - With Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, ...

The Banker(2020)

PG-13
| 2h | Drama
3.8/5 (with 333 votes)

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

Glory(1989)

R
| 2h 2min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 660 votes)

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

NR
| 2h 9min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

The Hate U Give(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 13min | Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 950 votes)

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

West Side Story(2021)

PG-13
| 2h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, Crime
3.5/5 (with 624 votes)

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Just Mercy(2019)

PG-13
| 2h 17min | Drama, Crime, History
4.0/5 (with 934 votes)

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

BlacKkKlansman(2018)

R
| 2h 15min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 3,391 votes)

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Woodlawn(2015)

PG
| 2h 3min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 81 votes)

Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s. A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.

Crash(2005)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,532 votes)

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

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