Backroads

6.3

|1977|61 min

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.

200ActionDrama

More Like This

Recommended for you

Monster's Ball

6.8

2001

Monster's Ball

6.8

2001

A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.

Shaft

6.0

2000

Shaft

6.0

2000

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

Explore Now

Popular Music

6.3

2004

Popular Music

6.3

2004

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

Explore Now

Jungle Fever

6.4

1991

Jungle Fever

6.4

1991

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

Explore Now

A Bronx Tale

7.9

1993

A Bronx Tale

7.9

1993

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

Explore Now

Goodbye Bafana

6.9

2007

Goodbye Bafana

6.9

2007

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Explore Now

City of Hope

6.8

1991

City of Hope

6.8

1991

This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.

Explore Now

Land of Plenty

6.2

2004

Land of Plenty

6.2

2004

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

Explore Now

Katzelmacher

6.4

1969

Katzelmacher

6.4

1969

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon, new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.

Explore Now

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

6.5

2002

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

6.5

2002

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

Explore Now

Leroy

5.5

2007

Leroy

5.5

2007

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family.

Explore Now

September 1923

6.5

2023

September 1923

6.5

2023

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

Explore Now