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18 Movies Like Passing (2021)

The Starling (2021) poster

1 The Starling (2021) ★ 6.3

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After Lilly suffers a loss, a combative Starling takes nest beside her quiet home. The feisty bird taunts and attacks the grief-stricken Lilly. On her journey to expel the Starling, she rediscovers her will to live and capacity fo...
A Mouthful of Air (2021) poster

2 A Mouthful of Air (2021) ★ 5.9

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Julie Davis writes bestselling children's books about unlocking your fears, but has yet to unlock her own. When her daughter is born, that trauma is brought to the fore, and with it, a crushing battle to survive.
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3 Luce (2019) ★ 6.6

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A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
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4 Fences (2016) ★ 7.2

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A former baseball player of African-American descent, now picking up trash from the streets of Pittsburgh, struggles to provide for his family in 1950s America, where the racial question is still an open one.

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5 One Night in Miami (2020) ★ 7.3

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A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.
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6 The Human Stain (2003) ★ 6.2

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This is the story of Coleman Silk (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with young troubled janitor Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children, and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all of his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life became unravelled.
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7 The Harder They Fall (2021) ★ 6.5

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When outlaw Nat Love discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. Those riding with him in this assured, righteously new school Western include his former love Stagecoach Mary, his right and left hand men hot-tempered Bill Pickett and fast drawing Jim Beckwourth and a surprising adversary-turned-ally. Rufus Buck has his own fearsome crew, including "Treacherous" Trudy Smith and Cherokee Bill, and they are not a group that knows how to lose.
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8 Jungle Fever (1991) ★ 6.6

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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9 Loving (2016) ★ 7.0

Richard Loving, a white construction worker in Caroline County, Virginia, falls in love with a local black woman and family friend, Mildred Jeter. Upon Mildred discovering that she is pregnant, they decide to marry, but knowing that interracial marriage violates Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws, they drive to Washington, D.C. to get married in 1958. Richard makes plans to build a house for Mildred less than a mile from her family home.

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10 Dear White People (2014) ★ 6.1

A social satire that follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but offensive black-face party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in acutely-not-post-racial America while weaving a universal story of forging one's unique path in the world.
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11 Hidden Figures (2016) ★ 7.8

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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12 The Great Gatsby (2013) ★ 7.2

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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13 Motherless Brooklyn (2019) ★ 6.8

Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective with Tourette's syndrome, decides to begin investigating the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna. He has only a few leads and the power of a mind obsessed with the task at hand to unravel the tangle of carefully concealed secrets that keep the balance of power in New York itself. His investigation takes him to the jazz clubs of Harlem, where gin runs in rivers, the dangerous slums of Brooklyn, and even the gilded halls of the metropolis' political elite. He challenges gangsters, corruption, and the most dangerous man in town to clear his friend's name and save the woman who might save himself.

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14 BlacKkKlansman (2018) ★ 7.5

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
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15 The Assistant (2019) ★ 6.4

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Follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant's - making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered.

The Assistant (2019) is on #15 spot of movies related to Passing (2021). The Assistant (2019) was released in 2019, made by Kitty Green and has average rating 6.4 in 2022. Main stars of the The Assistant (2019) film are: Julia Garner, Owen Holland, Jon Orsini.

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16 The Lost Daughter (2021) ★ 6.7

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A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.

The Lost Daughter (2021) film was made by . Main stars of the movie: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson. You can find The Lost Daughter (2021) in the the next genre categories: Drama and The Lost Daughter (2021) has average rating 6.7, according to Screench user votes.

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17 Being the Ricardos (2021) ★ 6.5

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Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
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18 Brooklyn (2015) ★ 7.5

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An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Brooklyn (2015) movie was filmed by as Director, starring Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson. Brooklyn (2015) belongs to the next genres: Drama, Romance and has average rating 7.5, according to user votes.

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