Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000), Straight Up (2019), No Way Out (1950), Remember the Titans (2000), 4 Little Girls (1997), This Is England (2006), Selma (2014), For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Racist movies.
Storyline: Championing nonviolent protest during the civil rights movement in the American South, Martin Luther King Jr. (Paul Winfield), a Baptist minister, becomes one of the most powerful and inspirational leaders during the turbulent era of the 1950s and '60s. However, being at the top only makes King more of a target, as he is always under threats from law enforcement officials, politicians and bigots. Never backing down from his lot, King undauntedly fights for equality, despite the personal risk.
Plot Keywords: activist, minister, african-american, racist, sheriff, wife, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Verneuils are Catholic. They are also a well-off, well-educated , well-intentioned, well-thought of couple. Everything would be for the best in the best of worlds if three of their daughters had not married three young men... of different religions and origins. So, the day their fourth girl tells them that she is going to marry a Catholic they are on cloud nine...
Plot Keywords: couple, conservative, partner, catholic, racist, jew, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Western about racial intolerance focuses around Kiowa claim that the Zachary daughter is one of their own, stolen in a raid. The dispute results in other whites turning their backs on the Zacharys when the truth is revealed by Mother. Cash, the hotheaded brother, reacts violently upon learning his "sister" is a "red-hide Indian." He leaves the family but returns to help them fight off an Indian raid.—<rita.richardson@arch2.nara.gov>
Plot Keywords: native american, rancher, racist, brother, adopted daughter, mother, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
Plot Keywords: police officer, gang member, racist, criminal, mexican-american, raw, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the 1970s, racial tensions erupt in a small Georgia town when a black lieutenant who died a hero in Vietnam is refused burial in the cemetery. Maj. Kendall Laird (John Lithgow) travels to Georgia with the body. He attempts to comfort the soldier's grieving parents, Luther (Morgan Freeman) and Ada (CCH Pounder), and convince the white townspeople the deceased officer deserves their respect. However, Laird is disturbed when he learns the true story behind the officer's death.
Plot Keywords: army officer, mother, father, neighbor, racist, major, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.—Focus Features
Plot Keywords: freedom fighter, slave, slave trader, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, racist, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Will arrives for his last year at The Carolina Military Institute, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960s. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.—Matthew Stanfield <mattst@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: cadet, military officer, racist, friend, tense, emotional, deep south ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.
Plot Keywords: guide, settler, native american, wife, racist, husband, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in New York City's Harlem. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluctantly accepted into 'The Family,' he grows increasingly autonomous and aggressive, eventually starting a gang war.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: kingpin, police officer, racist, mafia boss, reverend, brutal, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prologue: a driver has a big surprise with his passenger. Segment 1 ("Time Out"): a bigot man hates Jews, Black and Asian people. One day he will live in the World War II, hunted down by KKK and attacked in Vietnam War and feel the effects of his hatred. Segment 2 ("Kick the Can"): In a nursing home, the elder inhabitants learn that their minds can keep them young. Segment 3 ("It's a Good Life"): a traveler hits a boy in a bicycle with her car and takes the boy home. Soon she learns that the powerful boy brought her home indeed. Segment 4 ("Nightmare at 20,000 feet"): a writer is scary to fly and soon he sees a monstrous creature destroying the airplane engines during a stormy night.
Plot Keywords: racist, teacher, young boy, retiree, passenger, uncle, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family. Anita is 14, blonde and beautiful - exactly what Meena thinks she wants to be. She becomes part of Anita's world, but events do not run smoothly. Meena's growing up - and that brings plenty of changes.—Phil Reynolds
Plot Keywords: child, friend, indian, racist, amusing, charming, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As tensions of apartheid spread across South Africa, many students revolts to massive stone throw, a demonstration that comes in a wake of the introduction of Afrikaans language as a means of teaching. This sparks riots among school age young people who have resolved to do what it takes for freedom to come tomorrow. In a township of Soweto, a group of students, led by a beautiful and intelligent young girl, Sarafina, mastermind a plot to rise against the apartheid regime by vehemently rejecting the proposal to have Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. This angers the white people and results in a massive unrest of the students and those others supporting them. Meanwhile, Sarafina's mother accepts a job of a housekeeper in a white household and it angers Sarafina. Following the unrest of students and their possible torture and trial, Sarafina is released from prison, reunites with some of the colleagues and composes a "Freedom is Coming Tomorrow" song.—Isaac Museka Lupupa
Plot Keywords: student, teacher, mother, racist, principal, police officer, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four short, moralistic horror vignettes (a la EC Comics) that deal with mostly black characters. The framing story introduces three youths out to pick up a drug shipment at a funeral parlor from the strange director, Mr. Simms. As the three punks wind their way through the parlor, Mr. Simms tells them the last stories of some of his more interesting clients.—Renee Ann Byrd <byrdie@wyrdbyrd.org>
Plot Keywords: mortician, drug dealer, gangster, racist, boy, cop, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stranded student Pete (Ron Eldard) gets a lift from racist trucker Zack and repays the favor by inviting him in for dinner with his roommates, Jude (Cameron Diaz), Luke (Courtney B. Vance), Marc (Jonathan Penner) and Paulie (Annabeth Gish). When Zack praises Hitler and pulls a knife at the table, the roommates kill him. Rationalizing their actions as a favor to humanity, they bury Zack in the yard and begin to invite other offensive types to a string of similarly murderous meals.
Plot Keywords: graduate student, racist, homophobe, misogynist, friend, sheriff, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The outcast red-haired teenager Rémy is bulled at school and lives with his estranged mother and sister in France. The also red-haired psychiatrist Patrick befriends Rémy and helps him to release his repressed hatred and sexuality. When Rémy sees a picture of red-haired people in Ireland, he forces Patrick to travel with him to his dreamland.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: racist, teenager, mother, hilarious, france, ireland, criminals ...
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