Movies and TV series about racism

The 33 best titles about racism, ranked by the iRank Score — our composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. Every page includes cast, where to watch and similar recommendations.

12 Years a Slave
iRank88
2013 · Steve McQueen
MovieDramaHistory
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 on
To Kill a Mockingbird
iRank86
1962 · Robert Mulligan
MovieDrama
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When At
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
iRank85
2017 · Martin McDonagh
MovieCrimeDrama
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bil
Get Out
iRank85
2017 · Jordan Peele
MovieHorrorMysteryThriller
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interr
Django Unchained
iRank84
2012 · Quentin Tarantino
MovieDramaWestern
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The Searchers
iRank84
1956 · John Ford
MovieWestern
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Full Metal Jacket
iRank83
1987 · Stanley Kubrick
MovieDramaWar
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
The Hate U Give
iRank83
2018 · George Tillman Jr.
MovieCrimeDrama
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two ver
Killers of the Flower Moon
iRank83
2023 · Martin Scorsese
MovieCrimeDramaHistory
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
BlacKkKlansman
iRank82
2018 · Spike Lee
MovieComedyCrimeDrama
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Glory
iRank82
1989 · Edward Zwick
MovieDramaHistoryWar
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.
District 9
iRank82
2009 · Neill Blomkamp
MovieScience Fiction
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are manage
Hidden Figures
iRank82
2016 · Theodore Melfi
MovieDramaHistory
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history
Everybody Hates Chris
iRank81
2005 · Ali LeRoi
SeriesComedy
Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours a
Oz
iRank81
1997 · Jim Finnerty
SeriesCrimeDrama
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and t
Straight Outta Compton
iRank80
2015 · F. Gary Gray
MovieDramaHistoryMusic
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: thei
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
iRank80
2022 · Ryan Murphy
SeriesCrimeDrama
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in pl
Blazing Saddles
iRank79
1974 · Mel Brooks
MovieComedyWestern
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
iRank79
1971 · Mel Stuart
MovieFamilyFantasyComedy
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a
Green Book
iRank78
2018 · Peter Farrelly
MovieComedyDramaHistory
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segr
Just Mercy
iRank77
2019 · Destin Daniel Cretton
MovieCrimeDramaHistory
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despi
Ip Man
iRank77
2008 · Wilson Yip
MovieActionDramaHistory
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan bet
Carnival Row
iRank77
2019 · Orlando Bloom
SeriesCrimeDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation
The Help
iRank76
2011 · Tate Taylor
MovieDrama
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended
Mississippi Burning
iRank76
1988 · Alan Parker
MovieCrimeDramaMystery
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger
Crash
iRank73
2005 · Paul Haggis
MovieDrama
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge d
Bound by Honor
iRank69
1993 · Taylor Hackford
MovieCrimeDramaThriller
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East
A Time to Kill
iRank68
1996 · Joel Schumacher
MovieCrimeDramaThriller
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Sausage Party
iRank67
2016 · Conrad Vernon
MovieAdventureAnimationComedy
Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they're chosen to leave the grocery store.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
iRank67
2019 · André Øvredal
MovieHorrorMystery
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bell
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
iRank55
1996 · Paris Barclay
MovieComedyCrime
When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging co
Porky's
iRank50
1981 · Bob Clark
MovieComedy
In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of
Exodus: Gods and Kings
iRank50
2014 · Ridley Scott
MovieActionAdventureDrama
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.