Films like Mississippi Masala
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative fami...
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The World Unseen
Film · 2007 · also drama and romanceA drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
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Ali & Ava
Film · 2022 · also drama and romanceSparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness wh...
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China Girl
Film · 1987 · also drama and romanceTeenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
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Empire of Light
Film · 2022 · also drama and romanceThe duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
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Monster's Ball
Film · 2001 · also drama and romanceA prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
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Jungle Fever
Film · 1991 · also drama and romanceA successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already...
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Sylvie's Love
Film · 2020 · also drama and romanceWhen a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geogra...
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Winter Spring Summer or Fall
Film · 2024 · also drama and romanceRemi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will chang...
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Malcolm & Marie
Film · 2021 · also drama and romanceAs a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.
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The World to Come
Film · 2021 · also drama and romanceIn 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
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