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').
Heavens Fall (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Terry Green
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Bill Sage, Az...
In 1931 two young white women accused nine black youths of sexually assaulting them on an Alabama train. They became known as the Scottsboro Boys, an... Read more
Babel (2006)
7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor M...
The director of '21 Grams' has loosley weaved together four stories from three conitinents in this powerful drama about cultural barriers. Brad Pitt... Read more
Glory Road (2006)
7.2/10
Director: James Gartner
Starring: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight, Austin Nichols, Evan Jones
An inspirational look at one of the most famous basketball games in history and the coach who made it happen. At Texas Western in 1966, Coach Don Has... Read more
Wassup Rockers (2005)
6/10
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez, Usvaldo Panameno, Eddie...
Filmmaker Larry Clark ('Kids', 'Bully') again tackles the inner workings of urban youth culture in this comedy drama about a handful of Salvadorian em... Read more
Crash ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Larenz Tate, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, Sandra Bu...
Writer/director Paul Haggis brings together a high-powered ensemble cast to explore the sensitive subjects of race and gender in this provocative L.A.... Read more
Crash (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Larenz Tate, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, Sandra Bu...
Writer/director Paul Haggis brings together a high-powered ensemble cast to explore the sensitive subjects of race and gender in this provocative L.A.... Read more
Sweet Land (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Ali Selim
Starring: Alan Cumming, John Heard, Ned Beatty, Paul Sand, Tim Guinee, Alex Kingston, Lois...
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI,... Read more
Heading South (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal, Menothy Cesar
Set in the 1970s, three women in their mid-life head to Haiti, as many women did, to soak up the sun and explore their sexual fantasies with willing y... Read more
Sorry, Haters (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Jeff Stanzler
Starring: Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez, Sandra Oh, Fred Durst
This intense and thought-provoking psychological thriller takes a hard look at the relationship between white and Muslim Americans in a post-911 world... Read more
Love + Hate ( Love and Hate ) (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Dominic Savage
Starring: Samina Awan, Mohammed Rafique, Nichola Burley, Wasim Zakir, Tom Hudson, Tracy Br...
Uncompromising and passionate, this modern day 'Romeo and Juliet' charts the story of two young people from conflicting backgrounds who fall hopelessl... Read more