Movies like Convicts
If Convicts's mix of plantation, racism and teenage boy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Convicts's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: plantation, racism
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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12 Years a Slave
2013 · Directed by Steve McQueen · 134 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: racism
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive,…
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Glory
1989 · Directed by Edward Zwick · 122 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: racism
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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The Great Debaters
2007 · Directed by Denzel Washington · 126 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: racism
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the…
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Free State of Jones
2016 · Directed by Gary Ross · 140 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: confederate
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union.