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, 1h51Directed by Coline Serreau
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about families, Films about racism, Films about the labor movement, Films about marriage
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier, Maxime Leroux, Gilles Privat, Catherine Salviat
Romuald Blindet est le PDG de l'entreprise de produits laitiers Blanlait. Juliette Bonaventure, antillaise, est la femme de ménage de l'immeuble où se trouve la société. Elle élève seule ses cinq enfants dans une cité HLM. Elle découvre par hasard que le staff de Romuald est impliqué dans une louche affaire boursière et d'empoisonnement des yaourts. Elle en informe Romuald qui ne prend d'abord pas au sérieux les accusations d'une simple femme de ménage, d'autant plus qu'elle accuse également l'épouse de Romuald de le tromper (sans lui reprocher pour autant d'avoir lui-même une liaison avec sa secrétaire). Découvrant le pot aux roses, Romuald, traqué par la Brigade financière, se réfugie chez Juliette et sollicite son aide pour prouver son innocence. Juliette accepte et regarde sans mot dire Romuald prendre ses aises chez elle sans lever le petit doigt pour l'aider au quotidien. Blanchi de toute accusation, il repart, laissant quelques billets sur la table. Juliette veut faire appel à lui pour l'aider à sortir de prison son fils aîné impliqué dans un trafic de drogue. Mais Romuald est parti aux États-Unis pour plusieurs semaines et sa nouvelle secrétaire, raciste, ne transmet pas le message. Quand Romuald revient, c'est le temps des découvertes : l'identité de l'amant de sa femme, l'idiotie mesquine de sa secrétaire, son amour pour Juliette. Il la demande en mariage mais elle le repousse en lui débitant ses quatre vérités. Romuald joue finement en se mettant les enfants de Juliette dans la poche. Juliette finit par céder et tout se finit à la mairie devant une assemblée bourgeoise stupéfaite de cette union entre deux êtres que tout, a priori, séparait.
Top Dog (1995)
, 1h25Directed by Aaron Norris
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about racism, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Martial arts films, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Chuck Norris, Michele Lamar Richards, Erik von Detten, Carmine Caridi, Francesco Quinn, Clyde Kusatsu
The film opens as two white nationalists destroy an apartment complex in which most of the residents are minorities. Veteran police officer, Sgt. Lou Swanson, and his police dog, Reno, investigate the crime and realize the explosives are military in style. Their investigation takes them to the harbor, where they find a ship loaded with weapons. They are discovered and shot. Lou dies, but Reno survives.
The Long Walk Home (1990)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Pearce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker, Erika Alexander
The film was expanded as a feature. Set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, it features Whoopi Goldberg as Odessa Cotter, an African-American woman who works as a maid/nanny for Miriam Thompson, a well-to-do white woman played by Sissy Spacek. Odessa and her family confront typical issues faced by African Americans in the South at the time: poverty, racism, segregation, and violence. The black community has begun a widespread boycott of the city-owned buses to end segregation; Odessa takes on a long walk both ways to work.
Dear White People (2014)
, 1h48Directed by Justin Simien
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about racism, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, Brittany Curran, Dennis Haysbert, Marque Richardson
Sam White is a bi-racial film production major at Winchester University, a prestigious and predominantly white school. With her sharp tongued and witty radio show Dear White People and her self-published book, Ebony and Ivy, Sam causes a stir among the administration and student body alike, criticizing white people and the racist transgressions at Winchester.
Red Scorpion (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Joseph Zito
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T.P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano, Brion James
The plot centers on Lundgren's character Nikolai Petrovitch Radchenko, a Soviet Spetsnaz operative who is sent to an African country where Soviet, Czechoslovakian and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement. He is tasked with the mission to assassinate the rebel leader. In order to infiltrate the rebel movement and get within striking distance of his target, he stirs up trouble in the local bar and gets arrested for disorderly conduct. He is put in the same cell as a captured resistance commander and gains his trust in facilitating the escape. Upon finally reaching the rebel encampment he is met with distrust by the rebels. During the night he attempts to assassinate his target but does not succeed when the distrustful rebels anticipate his actions.
Pinky (1949)
, 1h42Directed by Elia Kazan, John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism, Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Nina Mae McKinney, William Lundigan, Griff Barnett
Pinky Johnson (Jeanne Crain) returns to the South to visit Dicey (Ethel Waters), the illiterate black laundress grandmother who raised her. Pinky confesses to Dicey that she passed for white while studying to be a nurse in the North. She had also fallen in love with white Dr. Thomas Adams (William Lundigan), who knows nothing about her black heritage.
The Assailant (2009)
, 1h35Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Biography, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Irandhir Santos
Un tout jeune orphelin, Manuel Henrique Pereira, est initié par Maître Alipio à la capoeira. Il deviendra « Besouro », le scarabée, le Maître des Maîtres. Alipio devient également son tuteur et son ami, lui enseignant, au-delà de la discipline de cet art, la justice de cet art, la justice et le combat contre les préjugés raciaux. Bientôt le colonel Venancio commandite l’assassinat d’Alipio…
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
, 1h21Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine
In late 1945, one-armed John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) gets off a passenger train at the isolated desert hamlet of Black Rock. It is the first time in 4 years that the train has stopped there. Macreedy is looking for a man named Komoko, but the few residents are inexplicably hostile. The young hotel desk clerk, Pete Wirth (John Ericson), claims he has no vacant rooms. Macreedy is threatened by Hector David (Lee Marvin). Later, Reno Smith (Robert Ryan) informs Macreedy that Komoko, a Japanese-American, was interned during World War II.
A Dry White Season (1989)
, 1h37Directed by Euzhan Palcy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Jürgen Prochnow, Zakes Mokae, Susannah Harker, Susan Sarandon
In 1976, in South Africa during Apartheid, Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a South African school teacher.
Fist of Fury (1972)
, 1h42Directed by Lo Wei
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Kung fu, Action, Romance, Martial arts
Themes Films about racism, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Robert Baker, Tien Feng, Paul Wei Ping-Ao, Lo Wei
In early 20th century Shanghai, Chen Zhen returns to Jingwu School to marry his fiancée. However, tragic news awaits him: his master Huo Yuanjia has died, apparently from illness. Chen is deeply saddened and traumatised by the sudden demise of his teacher. During the funeral, people from a Japanese dojo in Hongkou District arrive to taunt the Jingwu students. Wu En, the Japanese dojo's grandmaster Hiroshi Suzuki's translator and adviser, taunts Chen by slapping him on the cheek several times, and dares him to fight him. Then the Japanese students, along with Wu, leave. Shortly thereafter, Chen goes to the Hongkou dojo alone to engage in a fight. Chen defeats all of them, including the students' master.
Romper Stomper (1992)
, 1h34Directed by Geoffrey Wright
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Films about racism, Transport films, Skinheads, Gangster films
Actors Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott, Daniel Wyllie, Jimmy McKenna
A gang of violent neo-Nazis from Footscray, Victoria, Australia attack two Vietnamese Australian teenagers, who are friends of Tiger (Tony Lee) in a subway tunnel at Footscray Station (filmed at Richmond Station). The gang is led by Hando (Russell Crowe) and his friend and second in command, Davey (Daniel Pollock). They meet drug addict Gabrielle (Jacqueline McKenzie) the day after her sexually abusive, highly-affluent father Martin (Alex Scott), has her junkie boyfriend beaten up. However, Gabrielle starts a romantic association with Hando.
The Unforgiven (1960)
, 2h5Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about racism, Films about sexuality
Actors Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Lillian Gish, Charles Bickford, John Saxon
The Zacharys are a thriving and respected family on the Texas frontier. Father Will Zachary was killed by Kiowa Indians, leaving his oldest son Ben (Burt Lancaster) as the head of the family. Both Ben and his mother Mattilda (Lillian Gish) are very protective of the Zachary's adopted daughter, Rachel (Audrey Hepburn), while her other brothers, Cash (Audie Murphy) and Andy (Doug McClure), treat her as they would any sister. The family is supported by their closest neighbor, Zeb Rawlins (Charles Bickford), the patriarch of a racist family, whose shy son Charlie (Albert Salmi) wants to marry Rachel. Ben, long aware that she is not actually his sister, loves Rachel and is reluctant.
Dangerous Ground (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Darrell Roodt
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames, Ron Smerczak, Fana Mokoena, Darrell Roodt
The film opens in 1983, a young Vusi (Thokozani Nkosi) organizes a radical student protest that is soon put down by police, Vusi is captured and forced to leave for the U.S. where he settles down in the Bay Area.
The Power of One (1992)
, 2h7Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films
Actors Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Gielgud, Morgan Freeman, Daniel Craig, Simon Fenton
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed Englishwoman on a homestead in rural Natal, little Peter Philip is schooled in the ways of England by his mother and the ways of Africa by a Zulu nanny (Nomadlozi Kubheka), whose son Tonderai is also his best friend. Their easy life is forever shattered, however, when the farm's cattle are claimed by rinderpest. PK's mother succumbs to a nervous breakdown, and he is sent away to a conservative Afrikaans boarding school while she recovers.
Sankofa (1993)
, 2h4Directed by Hailé Gerima
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Afemo Omilami
The story follows Mona, a contemporary American model on a film shoot in Ghana. She has a session at Cape Coast Castle, which she does not know was historically used for the Atlantic slave trade.