Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Zootropolis er navnet på en ganske særlig by, hvor dyr på to ben lever i fred og fordragelighed. Kaninen Judy Hopps har en drøm om at blive politibetjent, men hun har alle odds imod sig. Aldrig før har en kanin klaret sig igennem træningsforløbet, hvor konkurrenterne er langt større dyr som isbjørne og næsehorn. Gennem hårdt arbejde og en hel del snilde bliver kaninen den første af sin slags til at iføre sig politiskilt og blå uniform. Judy flytter fra sin lille fødeby ind til det larmende Zootropolis, hvor hun i første omgang bliver sat til at uddele parkeringsbøder. Lettere utilfreds med situationen kaster hun sig ud i det, indtil hun møder den snu svindler, ræven Nick Wilde. Da et mysterium om et af byens dyr ender på Judys bord, går det op for kaninen, at hun må arbejde sammen med Nick for at opklare sagen.
Det katolske overklassepar, Marie og Claude Verneuils, traditionsbundne verdenssyn bliver godt og grundigt udfordret.Grunden skal findes hos parrets børn, hvor tre ud af fire er gift med henholdsvis en araber, en jøde og en asiat. Men deres sidste datter kan heldigvis rette op på situationen ved at gifte sig med en hvid franskmand. Chokket kommer derfor prompte, da hun introducerer sin forlovede, som er sort. Da han skal præsentere sin familie, viser det sig, at racismen går begge veje, og at alle må tage deres menneskesyn op til revision.
I filmen 'Ernest & Celestine' bor den unge mus Célestine under jorden sammen med en masse andre gnavere. Hun bor på et børnehjem, hvor hun tit og ofte hører historier om de onde bjørne, der bor oppe i den frie luft, men hun har svært ved at tro på dem. Som alle andre gnavere må Célestine uddanne sig til tandlæge og i den forbindelse drage op til overfladen for at stjæle mælketænder fra bjørneunger, der har lagt dem under deres hovedpude. Hun bliver desværre fanget midt i aktionen og jages ud i en skraldespand. Dagen efter findes hun af bjørnen Ernest, der i første omgang forsøger at æde hende, men hurtigt kommer på andre tanker, da Célestine viser ham vejen til en kælder fyldt med mad. Dermed er tonen slået an til et umage venskab.
Til trods for uhæmmet racisme fra alle kanter skrev holdejer Branch Rickey sig i 1947 ind i historiebøgerne med en professionel kontrakt med den afro-amerikanske baseballspiller Jackie Robinson. Med sit store mod og talent vandt Robinson både fans og holdkammeraters respekt, og det lykkedes ham at lukke munden på kritikerne og samtidig bane vejen for andre. Brian Helgeland (Payback) har skrevet og instrueret.
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
Året er 1825 på den australske ø Tasmanien. Den unge irske fange Clare vil have hævn over en engelsk officer. Med sig har hun Billy, en aboriginal tracker, som er plaget af sine egne dæmoner.
Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Da journalisten Phil Green (Gregory Peck) skal til at skrive en dybdeborende artikel om den paradoksale antisemitisme i efterkrigstiden, beslutter han sig for at opleve den på sin egen krop, hvordan det er at være jødisk i midten af fyrrernes USA. Men det, der begyndte som en del af hans arbejde, leder pludselig til, at han oplever at blive afvist, negligeret, set ned på og selv i sit privatliv venter der ubehagelige overraskelser. Mesterinstruktøren Elia Kazan oplevede en af sit livs store triumfer, da hans idealistiske film i 1947 blev nomineret til hele 8 Oscars, hvoraf han selv fik én for bedste instruktion, én for bedste film og én til Celeste Holm for bedste birolle.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States. The exchange is sometimes dramatic as they lay bare the pain that racism in the US has caused them.
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal, the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra has formed a relationship with Elio’s otherwise frigid secretary Velma who is less than pleased at Elio’s return.
In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?
A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that fervently seeks to remain in obscurity.