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In the Heat of the Night
1967 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibb…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Organization
1971 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco P…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Shoot to Kill
1988 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
To Sir, with Love
1967 • Drama
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Why matched: genres Drama
Little Nikita
1988 • Drama • Thriller • Action
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Pressure Point
1962 • Drama
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975 • Thriller • Adventure
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Adventure
The Slender Thread
1965 • Drama
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someo…
Why matched: genres Drama
Buck and the Preacher
1972 • Drama • Adventure • Comedy
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 • Drama • Romance
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
A Patch of Blue
1965 • Drama • Romance
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Let's Do It Again
1975 • Crime • Comedy
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. How…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Lilies of the Field
1963 • Drama • Comedy
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European…
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Porgy and Bess
1959 • Music • Drama • Romance
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a go…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Uptown Saturday Night
1974 • Crime • Comedy • Action
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
To Sir, with Love II
1996 • Drama • TV Movie
After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too muc…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Sneakers
1992 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-fun…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 • Drama • Romance
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Duel at Diablo
1966 • Western
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apa…
Why matched: genres Western