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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly …wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | family tragedy |
| Themes: | unlikely friendshipracismfuneralchristmasmarriagefriendship |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | gas stationroad tripelevatorcemeterychurch |
| Characters: | self discoveryjewishfemale protagonistafrican americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
| Story: | reference to antonin dvorakpay raisemobile alabamahousekeepingstrong female protagonistcross cultural relationsmatronsouthern bellehailstormfemale lead charactertelephone boxmaster servant relationshipretireecar dealerpulitzer prize source …strong femalebossy womanracial issuessenilitybaptistsynagoguetalking while drivingbanquetsegregationatlanta georgianursing homeilliteracygardeningchauffeurthanksgivingmahjonghousekeeperawardfemale leadinterracial friendshipold ageanti semitismcivil rightsstrong female leadblockbusterwoman with glassesrace relationsstrong female charactersuspiciongiftbusinessmanracial slurold womanbirthday partywidowcookingurinationcar accidentbased on playthree word titlecharacter name in title (See All) |
This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
| Themes: | racismfuneralchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | self discoveryfemale protagonistafrican american |
| Story: | pulitzer prize sourceilliteracyblockbusterrace relationsracial slurcookingthree word title |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | family tragedy |
| Themes: | marriagefriendship |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
| Story: | housekeeperblockbusterbirthday partywidowcar accident |
Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evely …n learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralmarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | self discoveryfemale protagonistafrican americanmother son relationship |
| Story: | cross cultural relationsnursing homestrong female leadstrong female characterthree word title |
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of promin …ent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfriendship |
| Characters: | female protagonistafrican american |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | southern belleracial issueshousekeeperinterracial friendshipcivil rightsstrong female leadrace relationsstrong female character |
The story of Ray Charles, music legend. Told in his adult live with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood which included losing his brother and then his sight, his rise as pianist in a touring band, his writing his own songs and running his own band an …d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfuneralmarriage |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
| Story: | racial issuessegregationatlanta georgiacivil rightsrace relationsbusinessmanbirthday partycharacter name in title |
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new respo …nsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. (Read More)
| Themes: | christmasmarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Period: | 1970s |
| Story: | housekeepingblockbusterwoman with glassessuspicionbirthday partycookingurinationthree word titlecharacter name in title |
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gasse …d at the Auschwitz concentration camp, it is a testament to the good in all of us. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | jewish |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | anti semitismblockbusterbusinessmanbirthday partywidowurinationcharacter name in title |
After a period of vacation in Hawaii, Joanna "Joey" Drayton returns to her parents' home in San Francisco bringing her fiance, the high-qualified Dr. John Prentice, to introduce him to her mother Christina Drayton that owns an art gallery and her father Matt Drayton that is the publisher editor of t …he newspaper The Guardian. Joey was raised with a liberal education and intends to get married with Dr. John Prentice that is a black widower and needs to fly on that night to Geneva to work with the World Health Organization. Joey invites John's parents Mr. Prentice and Mrs. Prentice to have dinner with her family and the couple flies from Los Angeles to San Francisco without knowing that Joey is white. Christina invites also the liberal Monsignor Ryan, who is friend of her family. Along the day and night, the families discuss the problems of their son and daughter. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmarriage |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | cross cultural relationsracial issueshousekeeperblockbusterrace relationsracial slurcar accident |
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
| Themes: | racismfuneral |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | segregationanti semitismcivil rightsrace relationsracial slur |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro …ss two generations. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfuneralchristmasmarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | banquetsegregationthanksgivingblockbusterrace relationsbusinessmanbirthday party |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome …d. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriagefriendship |
| Locations: | cemeterychurch |
| Characters: | female protagonistmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | nursing homeold womanbirthday partywidowcooking |
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 19 …72 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfuneral |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Story: | racial issuesgardeninganti semitismblockbusterrace relationsstrong female charactergiftracial slurbirthday party |
Football coach Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
| Themes: | christmasfriendship |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1970s |
| Story: | illiteracyinterracial friendshiprace relationscharacter name in title |
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when … let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965 and dies a Muslim martyr. (Read More)
| Themes: | racism |
| Characters: | self discoveryafrican americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s |
| Story: | civil rightsrace relationsracial slurcharacter name in title |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous …ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | female protagonistmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | pulitzer prize sourcewoman with glassesbirthday partycooking |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b …ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralchristmasmarriage |
| Locations: | road tripcemeterychurch |
| Characters: | self discoveryafrican americanmother son relationship |
| Story: | civil rightswidowcookingurination |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralfriendship |
| Mood: | affection |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s |
| Story: | woman with glassesbirthday partywidowurination |
Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events fo …llow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralmarriage |
| Locations: | gas stationroad tripcemetery |
| Characters: | self discovery |
| Story: | telephone boxbanqueturinationcharacter name in title |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri …ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralchristmasmarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationship |
| Story: | chauffeurinterracial friendshipbirthday partywidowurinationbased on playcharacter name in title |
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that co …mmitted acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | family tragedy |
| Themes: | racismfriendship |
| Characters: | jewishafrican americanmother son relationship |
| Story: | racial issuesinterracial friendshipanti semitismrace relationsracial slurwidowthree word title |
Based on the true story of 'Leigh Anne Tuohy' (qv) and 'Sean Tuohy' (qv) who take in a homeless teenage African-American, 'Michael Oher' (qv). Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne s …oon takes charge however, as is her nature, ensuring that the young man has every opportunity to succeed. When he expresses an interest in football, she goes all out to help him, including giving the coach a few ideas on how best to use Michael's skills. They not only provide him with a loving home, but hire a tutor to help him improve his grades to the point where he would qualify for an NCAA Division I athletic scholarship. 'Michael Oher' (qv) was the first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2009 NFL draft. (Read More)
| Themes: | racism |
| Characters: | female protagonistafrican americanmother son relationship |
| Story: | illiteracythanksgivinginterracial friendshipstrong female leadrace relationsstrong female characterthree word title |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl …e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralchristmasmarriage |
| Locations: | elevatorcemeterychurch |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | telephone boxracial slururination |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recru …itment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. (Read More)
| Themes: | christmasmarriage |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | jewishafrican americanmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s |
| Story: | race relationssuspicionracial slururinationthree word title |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
| Themes: | funeralmarriagefriendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | mother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | mahjongold agegiftold womanwidow |
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. T …here, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfuneralmarriage |
| Characters: | african american |
| Period: | 1950s1960s1970s |
| Story: | segregationcivil rightsrace relations |
Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the Am …erican southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeralchristmasfriendship |
| Locations: | gas stationroad tripcemetery |
| Characters: | mother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | urinationthree word title |
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
| Themes: | racism |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | african american |
| Story: | nursing homeblockbustergiftracial slururinationthree word title |
This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despit …e becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfriendship |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
| Story: | illiteracyracial slur |
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in pre-WWII Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained venee …r of servitude. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | jewish |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | master servant relationshiphousekeeperanti semitism |
The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. …Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence and ultimately triumph. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmarriage |
| Characters: | african american |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | civil rightsrace relationsracial slurthree word title |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, …who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriage |
| Locations: | gas stationroad trip |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Period: | 1950s1940s |
| Story: | suspicionold womanwidowcar accidentcharacter name in title |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | gas stationcemeterychurch |
| Characters: | jewishfemale protagonistmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | anti semitismcar accidentcharacter name in title |
"NEBRASKA" is a father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to get through …to a father he doesn't understand. (Read More)
| Locations: | road tripcemetery |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Story: | old agestrong female characterracial slurold woman |
Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school i …s made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults learn to depend on and trust each other. (Read More)
| Themes: | racism |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | african american |
| Period: | 1970s |
| Story: | civil rightsrace relationsstrong female characterracial slur |
Brian Wilson is the creative soul of the Beach Boys, but he paid a heavy price for his talent. That especially shows during his peak artistic years in the 1960s, as his inner demons and obsessions trying to please his abusive father drive him to a mental breakdown that would plague him for years. In … the 1980s, with Brian barely functional under the domination of the unscrupulous Dr. Landy, Brian meets and falls in love with Melinda Ledbetter. As their relationship grows, she observes Brian's crippling subservience to the abusive psychotherapist with growing alarm. Ultimately, she must take action with a love willing to stand up to oppression she cannot ignore. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriagefriendship |
| Characters: | jewishmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s1970s |
| Story: | chauffeurhousekeeperstrong female leadstrong female charactersuspicionthree word title |
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
| Themes: | marriage |
| Mood: | affection |
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Story: | talking while drivingblockbusterold womanbirthday partycooking |
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she stumbles in on her husband Frank, kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the …friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismchristmasmarriagefriendship |
| Characters: | african american |
| Period: | 1950s |
| Story: | segregationhousekeeperrace relations |
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs in …to the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story. (Read More)
| Themes: | unlikely friendshipchristmas |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | jewishafrican americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1960s1970s |
| Story: | thanksgivingrace relationsracial slur |
In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all …time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmarriagefriendship |
| Characters: | jewishafrican americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1960s1970s |
| Story: | racial issuescivil rightsrace relationsracial slurcharacter name in title |
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with …each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | self discoveryafrican americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | southern belletalking while drivingnursing homeold womanwidow |
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are … sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences. (Read More)
| Themes: | christmas |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | african americanmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | pulitzer prize sourcewoman with glassessuspiciongiftold womanbased on play |
Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, young Clark discovers the source of his superhuman powers and moves to Metropolis to fight evil. As Superman, he battles the vil …lainous Lex Luthor, while, as novice reporter Clark Kent, he attempts to woo co-worker Lois Lane (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
| Story: | telephone boxblockbusterbased on playcharacter name in title |
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial …journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismchristmas |
| Characters: | jewishfemale protagonistmother son relationship |
| Story: | nursing homeanti semitismstrong female leadstrong female charactersuspicionbusinessmanwidowcookingcar accident |
While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennesse …e and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter. Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriage |
| Locations: | church |
| Period: | 1950s1940s1960s1970s |
| Story: | baptistthanksgivingracial slurthree word title |
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rig …hts Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismfriendship |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | civil rightsrace relations |
ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces …in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers (played by Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.i (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | cemeterychurch |
| Characters: | female protagonistmother son relationship |
| Period: | 1940s |
| Story: | strong femalechauffeurstrong female leadstrong female charactersuspicionbirthday partyurination |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge …ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | elevator |
| Characters: | jewishafrican americanmother son relationshippolice |
| Story: | atlanta georgiainterracial friendshipsuspiciongiftracial slurcar accident |
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lif …estyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another. (Read More)
| Themes: | christmasfriendship |
| Locations: | elevatorchurch |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | businessmanracial slurbirthday partyurinationcar accidentcharacter name in title |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man … that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka. (Read More)
| Themes: | marriage |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | jewish |
| Story: | synagogueilliteracyanti semitismblockbusterwidow |
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