Racial Intolerance
The degradation and maltreatment of people based on their ethnicity or skin colour has plagued the human condition since we first began travelling around the globe. This category includes films and documentaries that explore the consequences of ignorance and intolerance from the large scale horrors of political oppression and genocide ('Rabbit Proof Fence', 'Sometimes in April'), to the personal prejudices that inhibit our growth and development ('American History X', 'Crash').
Towelhead (2007)
7/10
Director: Alan Ball
Starring: Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi, Maria Bello, Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Eugene...
Aka 'Nothing Is Private'. Writer Alan Ball ('American Beauty', 'Six Feet Under') makes his directorial debut with this controversial adaptation of Ali... Read more
Rendition ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect 'disappears' on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught u... Read more
Rendition (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect 'disappears' on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught u... Read more
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Director: Bille August
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger, Dennis Haysbert
The surprising relationship that developed between Nelson Mandela and South African prison guard James Gregory is explored in this riveting biodrama.... Read more
Hairspray ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Byne...
An adaptation of the stage musical which was itself an adaptation of the 1988 John Waters film. Overweight high school student Tracy Turnblad dreams o... Read more
Hairspray (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Byne...
An adaptation of the stage musical which was itself an adaptation of the 1988 John Waters film. Overweight high school student Tracy Turnblad dreams... Read more
Partition (2007)
7/10
Director: Vic Sarin
Starring: Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, Irfan Khan, Madhur Jaffrey, John Ligh...
Set during the tumultuous post-colonial era in India in 1949, when it was hastily divided into India and the new muslim country of Pakistan. Sikh far... Read more
Dhoka (2007)
4.1/10
Director: Pooja Bhatt
Starring: Muzammil Ibrahim, Tulip Joshi, Aushima Sawhney
A searing look at the marginalisation of Muslims in India that sometimes leads, in this case, to radical elements taking events into their own hands.... Read more
Choking Man (2006)
6/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Octavio Gomez Berrios, Eugenia Yuan, Mandy Patinkin, Aaron Paul, Kate Buddeke
Jorge (Octavio Gomez Berrios) is a shy young Ecuadorian dish washer living in Jamaica - not as in the Caribbean, but as in, Queens, New York City. He... Read more
Love and Dance (2006)
4.9/10
Director: Eitan Anner
Starring: Vladimir Volov, Avi Kushnir, Oksana Korostyshevskaya, Valeria Voevodin, Jenya Do...
Just on the cusp of puberty, Chen is also caught between two cultures. Equally attuned to his beautiful Russian mother's love of culture and the arts,... Read more