Movies like To Kill a Mockingbird
If To Kill a Mockingbird's mix of right and justice, rape and sibling relationship stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what To Kill a Mockingbird's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Help
2011 · Directed by Tate Taylor · 146 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: racism, desperate, dramatic
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 her employers…
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Directed by Elia Kazan · 122 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: rape, sibling relationship, black and white
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
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Just Mercy
2019 · Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · 137 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: racism, injustice
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 despite evidence…
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The Judge
2014 · Directed by David Dobkin · 141 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: trial, courtroom drama
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
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The Lovely Bones
2009 · Directed by Peter Jackson · 136 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: rape, melancholy
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire…
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The Rainmaker
1997 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 135 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: court case, dramatic
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim.
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The Color Purple
2023 · Directed by Blitz Bazawule · 141 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: racism, 1930s
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of…
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 136 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: right and justice, sibling relationship
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Directed by David Yates · 146 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: isolation, dramatic
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality.
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East of Eden
1955 · Directed by Elia Kazan · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father.
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The Best of Enemies
2019 · Directed by Robin Bissell · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: racism
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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Selma
2014 · Directed by Ava DuVernay · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: alabama
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B.