Movies like The Color Purple

20 movies like The Color Purple, ordered by similarity : A Taste of Honey(1961), Hearts Beat Loud(2018), The Kids Are All Right(2010), What They Had(2018), Boy Erased(2018), Dean(2016), Mario(2018), Round Trip(2003), The Cakemaker(2017), Carol(2015), Giant Little Ones(2018), Rafiki(2018) ...

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The Color Purple

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

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A Taste of Honey

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

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Hearts Beat Loud

A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.

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The Kids Are All Right

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.

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What They Had

Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.

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Boy Erased

The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.

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Dean

An illustrator falls in love with a woman while trying to keep his father from burning down the family home after his wife dies.

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Mario

Two young football players are caught between the politics of the game and their growing feelings for each other.

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Round Trip

A divorced Israeli woman hires a single African woman as a nanny, and soon the two women form a passionate friendship that leads to a romantic relationship.

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The Cakemaker

A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.

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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Giant Little Ones

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

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Rafiki

"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.

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Cloud 9

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

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A Patch of Blue

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

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Brokeback Mountain

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

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Katie Says Goodbye

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Fatima

After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.

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Cruise

Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.

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I Capture the Castle

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

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Viceroy's House

The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

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