Films like The Color Purple

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   Straight Outta Compton

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most...

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   American History X

   Film · 1998 · also drama

   Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before goin...

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   The Skeleton Twins

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' re...

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4. 4

   What's Love Got to Do with It

   Film · 1993 · also drama

   Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

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   Acrimony

   Film · 2018 · also drama

   Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now sh...

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   He Got Game

   Film · 1998 · also drama

   A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.

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   Love Streams

   Film · 1984 · also drama

   Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

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   Nocturnal Animals

   Film · 2016 · also drama

   Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the...

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   Back Roads

   Film · 2019 · also drama

   A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dor...

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    Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

    Film · 2009 · also drama

    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...

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