Highest-Rated Movies about 'Race', Sort by Popularity

The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016), The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), The Help (2011), Fastest (2011), Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Race movies.

#17. Rapa Nui (1994)

Storyline: Tenuously based on the legends of Easter Island, Chile, this story details a civil war between the two tribes on the island: the Long Ears and the Short Ears. A warrior from the ruling class falls in love with a girl from the lower class, and must decide on his position in a time of great civil unrest. The ruling class are demanding larger and larger Moai (stone statues), a task which the lower class and the island ecology are more and more reluctant to provide.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>

Plot Keywords: king, shaman, rival, tribal leader, young man, love interest, brutal ...

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#18. The Human Stain (2003)

Storyline: This is the story of Coleman Silk (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with young troubled janitor Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children, and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all of his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life became unravelled.

Plot Keywords: professor, writer, janitor, husband, wife, brooding, melodramatic ...

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#20. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)

Storyline: Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: fool, pretty woman, father, business owner, landlord, hysterical, madcap ...

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#21. California Mail (1936)

Storyline: Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by both singing cowboy Bill Harkins and the Banton brothers, Roy and Bart. During a stagecoach race to determine who is awarded the contract, Roy, fueled by his greed as well as his desire for Bill's lady friend, resorts to sabotaging his rival's rig in order to win. Bill, having an idea who is behind a recent rash of stagecoach robberies, devises a plan to catch the highwaymen but not before he is himself arrested for robbery and murder, having been seen committing the crime by impartial eye witnesses.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: love interest, man, father, brother, stagecoach owner, stagecoach driver, thrilling ...

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#24. Go Fast (2008)

Storyline: Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.—The Film Catalogue

Plot Keywords: cop, partner, investigator, gritty, ring, morocco, assignment ...

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#26. Up the Creek (1984)

Storyline: Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob the slacker, Irwin the alcoholic geek, Gonzer the human food disposal and Max the ne'er do well are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race., They make some friends like the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.—Lars Skogan <si2_ls92362@debet.nhh.no>

Plot Keywords: college student, friend, college dean, captain, competitor, love interest, cheeky ...

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#28. Head of State (2003)

Storyline: One candidate for the presidency dies in an accident a couple of weeks before the election. Meanwhile the alderman Mays Gilliam becomes a hero when he rescues a woman and her cat from an old house that would blow up. However his fiancee Kim does not pay his bills and dumps him, and Gilliam loses everything including his fancy car. When Senator Bill Arnot sees the news on television, he plots a scheme with the party advisors Martin Geller and Debra Lassiter to invite Mays to be the party nominee and lose the election for the other candidate, Vice-President Brian Lewis. Four years later, he would be the candidate and would have the chance of winning the election. Mays has a terrible beginning of campaign but when his older brother Mitch Gilliam meets him in Chicago, he advises Mays to be himself. Will he have the chance to be the first African American President of the USA?

Plot Keywords: political candidate, president, presidential candidate, senator, republican, hilarious, charming ...

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#30. Freerunner (2011)

Storyline: Ryan and other traceurs (parkour practitioners) frequently submit themselves to races through the city organized by Reese, a promoter who makes an Internet gambling fortune off of them while giving them a minuscule amount (if that) in return. With the last race of the season coming up, Ryan decides it's time to secretly break Reese's rule against participants betting on it. Having wagered all he has, the stakes are rudely raised against the racers. Reese's boss, Mr. Frank, has all along been surreptitiously grooming these athletes for a high-stakes death race for the sadistic entertainment of his billionaire gambling buddies. To guarantee every runner's enthusiastic participation, they're abducted, gassed, and fitted with explosive, remote-controlled collars, instilling every lad with a sincere desire to heed the rules and keep his head in the race. Sixty minutes on the clock. Ready, set, go!—statmanjeff

Plot Keywords: girlfriend, grandfather, frightening, town, metro city, bomb, race ...

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