Films like Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nomina...
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Iron Jawed Angels
Film · 2004 · also drama and tv movieDefiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
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The Safety of Objects
Film · 2002 · also dramaIn a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son...
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A Dry White Season
Film · 1989 · also dramaDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police cu...
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Lucky Them
Film · 2013 · also dramaMore interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s edito...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Film · 1996 · also dramaA poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow bot...
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The Trials of Cate McCall
Film · 2013 · also dramaIn order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfull...
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The Truth About Emanuel
Film · 2013 · also dramaA troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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Tuesday
Film · 2024 · also dramaA mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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Hounddog
Film · 2008 · also dramaA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Bruised
Film · 2021 · also dramaJackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed i...
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