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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.
Band of Angels (1957)
, 2h5Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist II, Patric Knowles, Rex Reason
Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is raised as the privileged white daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat ride there, he makes it clear that he intends to sleep with her, but desists when she tries to hang herself; as a beautiful, cultured young woman who can pass for white, she is far too valuable to risk losing.
Lilya 4-ever (2002)
, 1h49Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Oksana Akinchina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Elena Yakovleva, Woody Allen
The film starts with a figure running desperately towards a motorway bridge, with a factory belching smoke in the background, to a soundtrack of Mein Herz brennt by Rammstein. When the figure turns around the film introduces the audience to Lilja, who has recently been brutally beaten. The film reveals her past.
Manderlay (2005)
, 2h19Directed by Lars von Trier
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe, Isaac de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Lauren Bacall, Jeremy Davies
In which we happen upon Manderlay and meet the people there "The freed enterprise of Manderlay"
Ride with the Devil (1999)
, 2h18Directed by Ang Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the American Civil War breaks out. During the mayhem, Chiles's father is murdered by Kansas pro-Union Jayhawkers. The two men join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers; informal units loyal to Missouri in 1861. They later meet George Clyde and former slave Daniel Holt, whose freedom Clyde has previously granted.
Cafundó (2005)
, 1h42Directed by Paulo Betti
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about religion
Actors Lázaro Ramos, Leona Cavalli, Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues, Luís Melo, Francisco Cuoco
São Paulo state, 1890s. João (Lázaro Ramos) is a former slave and the son of an Orisha priestess and works as a muleherd for a coronel. One day, he and his close friend Cirino (Leandro Firmino da Hora) decide to leave the farm. João takes his mother to Cafundó, the bastion of Afro-American religion in the vicinity. However, João leaves the community and takes errands to work in menial jobs. He meets a possessed white prostitute named Rosário (Leona Cavalli) and falls in love. Only after an unhappy marriage with Rosário and his mother's demise, João has a series of visions and decides to work as a spiritual leader for Sorocaba. In 1906, he builds a church with help from Cirino and begins to preach his syncretic faith, which is a blend of Orisha worship, veneration of Catholic saints, and eventually Kardecist spiritism.
Aferim! (2015)
, 1h48Origin Roumanie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Teodor Corban, Luminița Gheorghiu, Victor Rebengiuc
En Valachie au début du dix-neuvième siècle, Costandin, un policier local, est embauché par le boyard Iordache, pour retrouver Carfin, son esclave tzigane qui a fui après avoir eu une liaison avec sa femme, Sultana.
War Witch (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Nguyen
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Enfant soldat
Actors Rachel Mwanza
During a civil war in sub-saharan Africa, a 12-year-old girl named Komona is abducted by rebel forces to become a child soldier. She is given a gun and told to choose between shooting her parents, who huddle in front of her, or watching them come to a much more painful end via machete. With tears in her eyes, she shoots them. Then, with other captives, she is whisked by motorised canoe up the river and led into a forest where training exercises immediately commence. New recruits are regularly beaten and face near-starvation.
Skin Trade (2014)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, Celina Jade, Peter Weller
A Cambodian girl leaves her village for Bangkok. Upon arrival, she is kidnapped, drugged, and sold in the skin trade.
Jake Speed (1986)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Roy London
In Paris, a girl named Maureen Winston (Becca C. Ashley) is abducted by two evil-looking men. While her family prays for her safe return, Maureen's father heaps guilt on her sister Margaret (Karen Kopins), since she convinced her to go see the world. However, Margaret's grandfather (Leon Ames) has an idea: call for Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) to go and rescue her. One problem exists: Jake Speed is a character in a series of 40's-style pulp fiction novels.
Souls at Sea (1937)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Hathaway, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings
The story is based on two distinct early 19th-century themes, including the attempts by abolitionists (Cooper and Raft) to end the slave trade. Although the U.S. Constitution ended the importation of slaves in 1808, slaves were still being brought into the country under foreign flags. The abolition of slavery by Great Britain helped reduce legal trade in slaves by putting the British navy into action against slave traders, but even Britain had its supporters of the trade (here represented by Wilcoxon, as a British naval officer acting for the slave interests). The collision between Cooper and Wilcoxon is complicated by Wilcoxon's sister (Dee) falling in love with Cooper.
Slave Girl (1947)
, 1h20Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford, Albert Dekker, Lois Collier, Andy Devine
The Revolt of the Slaves (1960)
, 1h31Directed by Nunzio Malasomma
Origin German
Genres Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Rhonda Fleming, Gino Cervi, Lang Jeffries, Darío Moreno, Serge Gainsbourg, Ettore Manni
À Rome, trois siècles après la mort du Christ, sous le règne de l'empereur Maximin, les chrétiens doivent se cacher dans les catacombes pour pratiquer leur religion. L'un d'eux, l'esclave Vibio, est acheté par le patricien Claudius. Mais comme il refuse de se battre contre un gladiateur selon ses préceptes religieux, il est emprisonné. Il réussit à s'évader, suivi par Claudia, fille de Claudius, amoureuse de lui et qui ne tarde pas à se convertir.
Joseph and His Brethren (1961)
, 1h43Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Peplum
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Geoffrey Horne, Robert Morley, Robert Rietti, Belinda Lee, Terence Hill, Finlay Currie
Joseph, son of Israel (Jacob) and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachel's firstborn and Israel's eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed Joseph with a "long coat of many colors". Israel's favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Joseph's bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother) and eleven stars (brothers) bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they despised him for the implications that the family would be bowing down to Joseph. They became jealous that their father would even ponder over Joseph's words concerning these dreams.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)
, 2h5Directed by Géza von Radványi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about religion
Actors O.W. Fischer, Mylène Demongeot, Herbert Lom, Eleonora Rossi Drago, John Kitzmiller, Michaela May
Adaptation européenne du roman-fleuve d’Harriet Beecher Stowe contant la dramatique histoire d’une famille noire déchirée par l’esclavage dans le Sud des États-Unis avant la Guerre de Sécession.