Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



Hairspray(1988)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.



Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



Hamburger Hill(1987)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.



Wildcats(1986)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.



Soul Man(1986)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.



The Long Walk Home(1990)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.



The Hollywood Knights(1980)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam ...



Heart Condition(1990)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.



Coup de torchon(1981)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...



The Lords of Discipline(1983)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In 1960s America, a black cadet is allowed acceptance into a seemingly prestigious military academy, unleashing a barrage of corruption within the system that another cadet is willing to expose.



A World Apart(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...



Losing Ground(1982)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on...



Prayer of the Rollerboys(1990)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set in an unspecified time in the future, USA has declined and become a country of violence and racial prejudice. Griffin earns his living delivering pizzas while he tries to take care of ...



Sweet 16(1983)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Teenager Melissa moves into a small town filled with racial prejudice and bullying and each time she meets up with one of the boys in town, they end up murdered - but who is the killer?



Bullshot(1983)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly ...



War Party(1988)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of re-enactors attempt to stage a hundred year anniversary battle between US Cavalry and Blackfeet Indians. Unfortunately racial hostilities and a real gun lead to some all too real...



L'oeil au beurre noir(1987)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This is an intelligent and sarcastic movie about daily racism. Our heroes are the painter Denise Santrose and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, who seek an apartment in Paris, France. Both ...




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