Most Similar Movies to American Violet (2008)
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Just Mercy (2019), The Hurricane (1999), The Great Debaters (2007), Selma (2014), Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995), Bopha! (1993), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Just Mercy (2019)
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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The Hurricane (1999)
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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The Great Debaters (2007)
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
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Selma (2014)
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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Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
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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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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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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Philadelphia (1993)
When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
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Cairo 678 (2010)
Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
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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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Salt of the Earth (1954)
Mexican workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
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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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The Long Walk Home (1990)
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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Bread and Roses (2000)
Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
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Pink (2016)
A lawyer with wild mood swings helps three women sue the men who attacked them.
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Sarafina! (1992)
South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
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My Pure Land (2017)
Three women defend their home against a group of armed men who want to take it forcibly from them.
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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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