Movies like Origin
If Origin's mix of racism, period drama and caste system stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Origin's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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I Swear
2025 · Directed by Kirk Jones · 121 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: 1990s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in…
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The Six Triple Eight
2024 · Directed by Tyler Perry · 130 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: 1940s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers…
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The Best of Enemies
2019 · Directed by Robin Bissell · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: racism · Also drama and history
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation…
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She Said
2022 · Directed by Maria Schrader · 129 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 2010s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of…
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Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: racism, 19th century
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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Belfast
2021 · Directed by Kenneth Branagh · 98 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance.
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The Zone of Interest
2023 · Directed by Jonathan Glazer · 105 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: 1940s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
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Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 112 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and history
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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A United Kingdom
2016 · Directed by Amma Asante · 111 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: racism · Also drama and history
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British…
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: period drama, 1940s
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June…
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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…