Films like Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and p...
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Speak
Film · 2004 · also dramaFreshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and...
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Mysterious Skin
Film · 2005 · also dramaA teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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The Color Purple
Film · 1985 · also dramaAn epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive fat...
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Film · 1996 · also dramaThe story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "SCUM" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but...
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For Colored Girls
Film · 2010 · also dramaA film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, r...
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A Thousand and One
Film · 2023 · also dramaStruggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care a...
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Film · 1998 · also dramaYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution i...
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Nickel Boys
Film · 2024 · also dramaChronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
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Blonde
Film · 2022 · also dramaFrom her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe...
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Kids
Film · 1995 · also dramaA group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
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