Most Similar Movies to Flame in the Streets (1961)


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Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), Do the Right Thing (1989), My Family/Mi Familia (1995), Wondrous Oblivion (2003), Up the Junction (1968), The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Bopha! (1993) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)

Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)

6.2/10 Comedy, Drama

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

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Do the Right Thing (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

7.9/10 Comedy, Drama

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

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My Family/Mi Familia (1995)

My Family/Mi Familia (1995)

7.3/10 Drama, History

A man makes his way from Mexico to L.A. in the 1920s, gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they, too, get married and have children in the 1960s.

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Wondrous Oblivion (2003)

Wondrous Oblivion (2003)

7.0/10 Comedy, Drama

Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has the entire kit but none of the skill. So when a Jamaican family moves in next door and builds a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven.

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Up the Junction (1968)

Up the Junction (1968)

6.9/10 Drama

Addresses some of the major 60s social issues - a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends... of which one has to get an illegal abortion.

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The Lost Language of Cranes (1991)

The Lost Language of Cranes (1991)

6.9/10 Drama

A young gay man comes out to his middle-class parents, which has repercussions for his father who has long since been trying to repress his own sexuality.

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Bopha! (1993)

Bopha! (1993)

6.5/10 Drama

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family (including long-suffering wife Alfre Woodard) and what he believes is his d...Read all

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Burning an Illusion (1981)

Burning an Illusion (1981)

6.4/10 Drama

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

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Blame It on Fidel (2006)

Blame It on Fidel (2006)

9.3/10 Drama, History

Anna must deal with losing her privileges when her well-off parents become leftist activists.

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Nothing But a Man (1964)

Nothing But a Man (1964)

8.0/10 Drama

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

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A Taste of Honey (1961)

A Taste of Honey (1961)

7.5/10 Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

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Blindspotting (2018)

Blindspotting (2018)

7.4/10 Comedy, Crime, Drama

While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.

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One Potato, Two Potato (1964)

One Potato, Two Potato (1964)

7.2/10 Drama

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.

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Skin (2018)

Skin (2018)

6.9/10 Biography, Drama

A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.

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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

6.8/10 Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

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The Proud Valley (1940)

The Proud Valley (1940)

6.7/10 Drama

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

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Beautiful People (1999)

Beautiful People (1999)

6.7/10 Drama

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by...Read all

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This Happy Breed (1944)

This Happy Breed (1944)

10.0/10 Drama

An adaptation of Noel Coward's play traces a number of years in the life of a middle-class London family.

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