Most Similar Movies to A World Apart (1988)
If you are looking for movies like A World Apart (1988), you might like movies tagged with keyword : political, apartheid, south africa, family, mother-daughter relationship, struggle, social justice, biographical, historical, human rights, revolution, sacrifice, coming of age, 1980s, black, oppression, resistance, imprisonment, separation, based on true events .
Cry Freedom (1987), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013), Catch a Fire (2006), Sarafina! (1992), Salvador (1986), The Rebel (2006), Miral (2010) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Cry Freedom (1987)
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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Catch a Fire (2006)
A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.
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Sarafina! (1992)
South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
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Salvador (1986)
An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.
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The Rebel (2006)
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
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Miral (2010)
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
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Lemon Tree (2008)
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
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Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.
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Suffragette (2015)
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
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Bopha! (1993)
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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My Father's War (2016)
Examining war and its effect on family. A son who has a strained relationship with his dad begins having vivid dreams that show him what his dad went through.
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A Dry White Season (1989)
A white South African challenges government policies when he accuses a police captain of the murder of a black man.
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The Promised Land (1975)
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.
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A Taxi Driver (2017)
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
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John and the Missus (1987)
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
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Monsieur Batignole (2002)
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein...Read all
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Baarìa (2009)
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
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