Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "court", "racist"

1. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

R | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.3

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68 Metascore

Two men and their sons must deal with the unforeseen consequences of their actions.

Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Craig Van Hook

Votes: 290,631 | Gross: $21.38M

2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama

8.3

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88 Metascore

Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy

Votes: 333,114

3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.6

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67 Metascore

The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel

Votes: 760,389 | Gross: $389.81M

4. A Time to Kill (1996)

R | 149 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.5

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53 Metascore

In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey

Votes: 181,837 | Gross: $108.77M

5. The Jerk (1979)

R | 94 min | Comedy

7.1

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61 Metascore

A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.

Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King

Votes: 64,259 | Gross: $73.69M

6. Freeway (1996)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.8

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61 Metascore

A twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.

Director: Matthew Bright | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Perri

Votes: 31,799 | Gross: $0.30M

7. Dead Man Walking (1995)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama

7.5

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80 Metascore

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry

Votes: 101,853 | Gross: $39.39M

8. Ali (2001)

R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

6.7

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65 Metascore

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles

Votes: 105,611 | Gross: $58.20M

9. The Kitchen (2019)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

5.6

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35 Metascore

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

Director: Andrea Berloff | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson

Votes: 22,989 | Gross: $12.05M

10. Breaker Morant (1980)

PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War

7.8

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72 Metascore

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Votes: 14,445 | Gross: $7.14M

11. Deep Cover (1992)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

7.0

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67 Metascore

A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa

Votes: 14,080 | Gross: $16.64M

12. Dinotopia (II) (2002)

TV-PG | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

6.5

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After a plane crash, two opposing half-brothers find themselves on an amazing lost island where enlightened pacifist humans and intelligent talking dinosaurs have created a utopian medieval society. But imminent disaster approaches.

Stars: David Thewlis, Katie Carr, Jim Carter, Alice Krige

Votes: 6,626

13. A Soldier's Story (1984)

PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.2

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66 Metascore

An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier

Votes: 11,412 | Gross: $21.82M

14. Freedomland (2006)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

5.2

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43 Metascore

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Director: Joe Roth | Stars: Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard

Votes: 17,226 | Gross: $12.51M

15. Truck Turner (1974)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

6.9

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While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase

Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.18M

16. The Chamber (1996)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.0

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45 Metascore

A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky

Votes: 16,137 | Gross: $14.55M

17. Liberty Heights (1999)

R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

7.0

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75 Metascore

Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Ben Foster

Votes: 7,048 | Gross: $3.73M

18. Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

PG | 95 min | Drama, Sport

6.9

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A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.

Director: Joseph Manduke | Stars: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair

Votes: 1,061 | Gross: $0.78M

19. Pardon (2005)

99 min | Comedy, Drama

8.1

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Based on a true event, the film tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization.

Director: Mert Baykal | Stars: Ferhan Sensoy, Rasim Öztekin, Ali Çatalbas, Bülent Kayabas

Votes: 23,017

20. Separate But Equal (1991)

PG | 190 min | Drama, History

7.5

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A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Stars: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Cleavon Little

Votes: 786

21. Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Family

7.6

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In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall

Votes: 2,657

22. Paris Trout (1991 TV Movie)

R | 100 min | Drama

6.4

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In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon

Votes: 1,650

23. Native Son (1951)

91 min | Drama, Film-Noir

6.2

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In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Gloria Madison, Nicholas Joy

Votes: 497

24. The Sheriff (1971 TV Movie)

73 min | Crime, Drama

6.8

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A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson, Edward Binns

Votes: 90

25. Gebürtig (2002)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music, Romance

6.3

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A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a ... See full summary »

Directors: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner, Katja Weitzenböck

Votes: 233

26. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)

TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

7.9

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The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.

Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei

Votes: 104

27. Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990)

135 min | Biography, Drama, History

5.8

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Director: Alain Maline | Stars: Christophe Malavoy, Roger Hanin, Désirée Nosbusch, Jean-Michel Martial

Votes: 133

28. Black and White: Featurette (2003 Video)

11 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Craig Lahiff

29. The Alex Jones Show (2018– )
Episode: Episode dated 27 March 2019 (2019)

TV-MA | News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Alex Jones, Faith Goldy

30. OJ25 (2020– )
Episode: I Decline to Answer ... (2020)

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The jury hears an audiotape of Detective Mark Fuhrman using the N-word; Fuhrman takes the fifth.

Stars: F. Lee Bailey, Danny Bakewell, Kathleen Bell, Robert Blasier

31. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Fire in the Hole (2010)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.3

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Marshal Givens returns home and is assigned a case involving an old friend from his coal mining days who has become a white supremacist and blew up an African American church.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel

Votes: 3,291