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48 films tagged racism
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2025 · Mystery
A congressman's daughter is found murdered in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1900, and the killing suits everyone who wants the district shut down. A young detective and a local man work the case, in a comedy with a real whodunnit inside it.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Mystery
A lawyer takes on the case of her friend's husband, an unarmed Black man shot dead, and works it with her boyfriend, who is a detective. It plays as a mystery, with the two of them turning over what everyone involved is hiding.
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2025 · Documentary
A collage of archive, staged scenes and internet chatter, adapted from a video art installation, with actors playing W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Shaped like a record album rather than a story.
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2025 · Drama
On the set of a German film about the racist attacks of the nineties, a Quran is burned and every trace of it disappears. The assistant director asks what happened, and everyone tells her a different version.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary built almost entirely from police bodycam footage of the neighbourhood disputes that ended when a Florida woman shot the mother next door. It runs in order, with almost no narration.
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2018 · Action
After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.
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2018 · Drama
The first Black officer on the Colorado Springs force answers a Klan recruitment ad by phone and sends a white colleague to the meetings in his place. Funny for long stretches, then it stops being funny.
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2018 · Drama
A man in Oakland has three days left on probation and a best friend who cannot leave trouble alone, in a neighbourhood changing block by block. Funny and tense in the same scene, and it sometimes breaks into verse.
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2025 · Thriller
A young Black man on the subway is drawn into conversation by a white stranger who seems to know things about him. It comes from Amiri Baraka's 1964 play, and it is largely the two of them talking.
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2025 · Thriller
A veteran just out of prison goes home to a small Ohio town run by a racist sheriff, where Black men have a way of disappearing. It starts slow and turns violent.
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2026 · Comedy
A high-school graduate's rich friends talk down the Black college that accepted him, so his grandfather Joe takes him on the college tour himself in an old Buick. A broad comedy, one stop at a time.
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2020 · Drama
Four Black veterans go back to Vietnam for the body of their squad leader and the crate of gold buried with him. Long, cutting between now and the war, and stopping to argue about history.
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2017 · Drama
During the 1967 riots, police pull a group of young Black men and two women out of a motel annexe and question them through the night. The middle hour stays in that corridor and does not let up.
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2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
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2012 · Action
A slave is bought by a German bounty hunter in 1858 and taught to shoot, on the way to a Mississippi plantation where his wife is being held. Long talky stretches broken by short bursts of extreme violence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Drama
The life of Elvis Presley, from a Memphis boyhood to the Las Vegas years, told by the manager who ran his career. Loud, fast-cut and packed with songs from start to finish.
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2016 · Drama
A Pittsburgh garbage man in the 1950s, who nearly made it as a ballplayer, holds forth in his backyard to his wife, his sons and his oldest friend. Nearly all talk, nearly all one yard, and it started as a play.
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2013 · Drama
New Year's Eve in Oakland, and a twenty-two-year-old runs errands, picks up his daughter and tries to sort his life out. Based on real events, shot close and small, staying with one man hour by hour.
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2018 · Drama
A Bronx bouncer takes a job driving a Black concert pianist through the American South in 1962, guided by a book listing where he is allowed to stop. Two men in a car, talking, for most of it.
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Little-known
2020 · Horror
A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.
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2018 · Romance
A young couple in 1970s Harlem are pulled apart when he is jailed for something he did not do, and her family sets about proving it. Slow, warm, and full of long held looks.
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2021 · Drama
A Chicago car thief is picked up by the FBI and offered a deal: get close to the young chairman of the local Black Panther chapter and report back. It moves between the two men all the way through.
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2023 · Crime
In 1920s Oklahoma the Osage are rich from the oil under their land, and one by one they start dying. Three and a half hours, told mostly from the side of the white men who married into the tribe.
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2021 · Drama
A father in Compton has a written plan for turning his two youngest daughters into tennis champions, and spends years pushing coaches, clubs and his own family to follow it. Warm and steady, and more about the household than the matches.
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2016 · Drama
A white bricklayer and a Black woman marry in Virginia in 1958, where that is against the law, and are arrested in their own bedroom. Quiet and undramatic, with far more kitchen than courtroom.
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2020 · Drama
A blues singer and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio on a hot afternoon in 1927 and spend most of it waiting. From a play: one building, long speeches, four musicians in a rehearsal room.
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2024 · Drama
Two Black teenagers meet at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s and get each other through it. It is shot almost entirely from inside their eyes, so you see what they see and little else.
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2017 · Horror
A young Black photographer goes with his white girlfriend to meet her parents at their country house for the weekend, where everyone is a little too welcoming. The discomfort arrives well before anything else does.
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2020 · Drama
On a night in February 1964, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown sit together in a motel room after a title fight. From a play, and it is four men arguing in one room for most of it.
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2025 · Horror
Twin brothers come home to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 and open a juke joint in an old mill, and opening night brings more than dancers. Half of it is the day of getting ready, and the blues playing matters as much as the plot.
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2018 · Comedy
A broke telemarketer in Oakland finds that putting on a white voice on the phone gets him promoted, and the promotion takes him somewhere odd. It starts as an office comedy and keeps getting stranger.
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2015 · Drama
Five young men from Compton put what they see on their own streets onto record, and the records make them famous and watched. Loud, long, and covering about ten years.
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2016 · Drama
Three Black women working as mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s do the sums that put an astronaut in orbit, in a building that is still segregated. Their fight is mostly a bureaucratic one.
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2015 · Mystery
A bounty hunter and his prisoner are forced by a blizzard into a stagecoach stop in Wyoming with six strangers, at least one of whom is lying. It is three hours long, nearly all of it in one room and nearly all of it talk.
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2017 · Drama
Months after her daughter's murder goes unsolved, a woman rents three billboards outside her town to ask the police chief why. Angry, funny in a mean way, and full of shouting.
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1998 · Drama
A former neo-Nazi comes out of prison set on pulling his younger brother back from the movement he helped build. Told in two strands, the present in colour and the past in black and white.
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2018 · Crime
Four women in Chicago are left holding their husbands' debts after a robbery goes wrong, and decide to carry out the job the men had planned next. A heist film that spends as much time on city politics and grief.
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2017 · Mystery
A wildlife tracker finds a young woman dead in the snow on a Wyoming reservation, and a new FBI agent arrives from Las Vegas with no idea what she is walking into. Cold, quiet and slow, until it is not.
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2016 · Animation
A rabbit becomes the first of her kind on the police force in a city run by animals, and gets forty-eight hours to crack a missing-mammal case with a con-artist fox as her only lead. Bright, quick, and built like a detective story.
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2005 · Drama
Over two days in Los Angeles a dozen strangers collide in traffic, at gunpoint and in each other's houses, and race is in every exchange. The stories run in parallel and keep crossing.
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2006 · Comedy
A Kazakh television reporter drives across America to marry Pamela Anderson, interviewing real people who do not know the character is a character. Very rude, and often uncomfortable.
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2005 · Thriller
A Paris television host starts receiving videotapes of his own front door, shot from across the street with no note attached. Long static takes, and very little is explained.
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2013 · Drama
A free Black musician living in New York in 1841 is drugged, kidnapped and sold to a plantation in Louisiana. It moves slowly and stays with the worst of it rather than cutting away.
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2016 · Documentary
An argument that American mass incarceration runs directly from slavery through the wording of one constitutional amendment. Archive footage and interviews throughout.
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Little-known
2009 · Crime
A nineteen-year-old with no family and no schooling starts a six-year sentence, and the Corsican men who run the prison put him to work. It takes its time, and the violence is sudden and close.
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2011 · Comedy
An unbothered Galway sergeant is paired with an FBI agent on a drug case he has no interest in. Very funny, and he is rude to everybody.
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2024 · Crime
An FBI agent in the Pacific Northwest in 1983 works a run of bank robberies back to a white supremacist cell. Cold, procedural and very tense.
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