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In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Film · 109 min
Directed by Norman Jewison
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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‘The Lives of Others’ is an outstanding film. However, it is a reappraisal of East German history and was made seven years after the collapse (the director grew up in West Germany and Western Europe).
US-America has looked at the subject of surveillance of its own population and its own (possible) collapse many times and often in a timely manner.
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If you ask publicly, ‘What if I've seen XYZ?’ then it's actually already too late.
Reminds me of the movie In the Heat of the Night (1967). A black cop from Philadelphia winds up accused of murder in a small Mississippi town and tries to clear his name and catch the real killer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film)
Well adding to the above list of what could be considered stand out movies, these below are some I really enjoyed / admired -- in no particular order.
Dark City
Ice Planet (2001)
The Green Mile
Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
Flodder 3
Gettin' Square
Midnight Run
The Accountant
Slipstream (2005)
To Kill a Mockingbird
North by Northwest
In the Heat of the Night
What the Deaf Man Heard
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
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There are loads of Hollywood movies from all eras that meet all these criteria. It's not a new phenomenon. Check out the oh-so-subtle characterization in The Sands of Iwo Jima, for example. Or if you want an idealized do-gooder character, how about Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night? (A great movie, but Tibbs's character is only a little more filled out than 'black and a good guy'.)
It's honestly astonishing to me that people would think that American movies with political messaging are somehow a new phenomenon. I'd have to assume that these folks have just not watched many old movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film)