Films like JOY

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   Shirley

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

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   Call Jane

   Film · 2022 · also drama

   A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

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   Jesus Revolution

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   In the 1970s, aimless teenager Greg Laurie searches for all the right things in all the wrong places until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie/street preacher....

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   Cradle Will Rock

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

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   If These Walls Could Talk

   Film · 1996 · also drama

   A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nu...

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   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

   Film · 2017 · also drama

   An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

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   Erin Brockovich

   Film · 2000 · also drama

   A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and co...

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   Skin

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

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   All the Way

   Film · 2016 · also drama

   Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential ca...

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    Uprising

    Film · 2001 · also drama

    In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

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