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The Color of Friendship (2000), Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995), Careful, He Might Hear You (1983), Selma (2014), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Dear Frankie (2004), Sounder (1972) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

The Color of Friendship (2000)

The Color of Friendship (2000)

10.0/10 Drama

A black family (Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson, Shadia Simmons) receives a white South African exchange student, raised in apartheid, into its home in 1977.

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Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995)

Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995)

7.2/10 Drama

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)

Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)

6.9/10 Drama

His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless, absent father, she asserts her rights and convinces Lila to have PS live with her weekdays. PS is happy at Lila's, playing with children, running about, speaking up. At Vanessa's, ...Read all

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Selma (2014)

Selma (2014)

7.5/10 Drama, Biography, History

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

8.9/10 Drama

A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.

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Dear Frankie (2004)

Dear Frankie (2004)

7.7/10 Romance, Drama

After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.

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Sounder (1972)

Sounder (1972)

7.6/10 Drama

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

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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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City of Hope (1991)

City of Hope (1991)

7.3/10 Drama, Adventure

An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

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Dark Eyes (1987)

Dark Eyes (1987)

10.0/10 Romance, Drama, Comedy

An old Italian (Marcello Mastroianni) recalls his rich wife (Silvana Mangano), mistress (Marthe Keller) and Russian lover while on an ocean liner in 1903.

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Losing Isaiah (1995)

Losing Isaiah (1995)

6.5/10 Drama

The biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle.

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A Dry White Season (1989)

A Dry White Season (1989)

8.1/10 Drama

A white South African challenges government policies when he accuses a police captain of the murder of a black man.

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Mondays in the Sun (2002)

Mondays in the Sun (2002)

8.0/10 Drama

Fired from a Spanish shipyard, three men (Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido) spend their days wandering aimlessly and carousing in a bar.

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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

8.0/10 Drama

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

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The Executioner (1963)

The Executioner (1963)

8.0/10 Comedy, Drama

An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.

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Ragtime (1981)

Ragtime (1981)

7.3/10 Drama

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

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The Long Walk Home (1990)

The Long Walk Home (1990)

7.3/10 Drama

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

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Golden Door (2006)

Golden Door (2006)

7.2/10 History, Drama, Romance

An Italian (Vincenzo Amato) and his two sons leave their rural home in Sicily and begin an exciting journey toward a better life in the United States.

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