Movies like White Material

20 movies like White Material, ordered by similarity : The Circle(2000), Mediterranea(2015), The Birth of a Nation(2016), Pater Familias(2003), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison(1951), Devi(1960), Cool Hand Luke(1967), A City of Sadness(1989), The Battleship Island(2017), Sweet Sixteen(2002), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom(2013), Colonia(2015) ...

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White Material

Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.

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The Circle

Three Iranian women (Mariam Parvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Fareshteh Sadr Orafai) battle oppressive governmental regulations that affect all areas of their lives.

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Mediterranea

Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.

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The Birth of a Nation

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.

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Pater Familias

After ten years in jail, Matteo, returns home in order to sign some legal papers tied to the imminent death of his father. But the real reason Matteo returns is to face the ghosts of his ... See full summary »

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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.

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Devi

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

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Cool Hand Luke

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

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A City of Sadness

A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.

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The Battleship Island

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.

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Sweet Sixteen

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

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Colonia

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

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Time Out

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

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Tokyo Sonata

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

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Winter's Bone

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

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The Living and the Dead

A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. ... See full summary »

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Sorry We Missed You

Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.

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Papillon

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

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Bamako

Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court ... See full summary »

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Three Monkeys

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.

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