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DocAlliance Films
84
8.0
/438/
71
/15/
73
/20/
4.2
/1349/
100
/21/

Dead Souls (2018)
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
poster
84
8.0
/62393/
77
/1277/
76
/1028/
4.0
/55549/
97
/152/
90
/2622/
91
/33/
cc age 17+

Waltz with Bashir (2008)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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MUBI
79
7.3
/5968/
69
/203/
69
/109/
4.0
/33888/
96
/82/
70
/11/
95
/23/

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
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Kanopy
83
76
7.8
/8714/
75
/131/
73
/145/
4.0
/9097/
97
/59/
91
/336/
87
/26/

To Be and to Have (2002)
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
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Hoopla
76
6.9
/1184/
75
/100/
69
/71/
3.7
/2470/
93
/28/
81
/4/
79
/9/
cc age 12+

Funan (2019)
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…
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Kanopy
73
6.7
/6244/
64
/222/
66
/245/
3.5
/7976/
95
/93/
66
/25/
87
/20/
cc age 14+

Fire at Sea (2016)
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
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Kanopy
68
6.6
/1428/
72
/49/
67
/51/
3.5
/4201/
82
/67/
57
/1/

Notturno (2020)
Shot over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, the film depicts the everyday struggles of people attempting to rebuild their lives amongst the devastating effects of civil wars, dictatorships, foreign invasions, and the deadly presence of ISIS.
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Criterion Channel
81
59
7.4
/4156/
73
/93/
73
/71/
3.7
/7005/
94
/16/
100
/1/
82
/6/

Pamfir (2022)
When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
58
7.4
/2320/
74
/124/
75
/121/
3.9
/9110/
100
/11/
87
/2/
77
/5/

Josep (2020)
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
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Kanopy
74
55
7.3
/2340/
70
/54/
68
/52/
3.9
/5450/
92
/26/
61
/6/
81
/10/

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
52
6.1
/9740/
59
/307/
58
/229/
3.1
/5942/
47
/32/
39
/39/
51
/16/

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
poster
85
50
7.1
/29/
75
/2/
100
/63/
95
/2238/

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit (2024)
He is the despicable child killer in Fritz Lang's M. Drawing on testimonies and archives, this portrait sheds light on Peter Lorre's turbulent career and complex personality, unable to escape the monster that made him famous.
poster
75
46
6.7
/228/
75
/10/
60
/12/
3.4
/2137/
94
/18/
90
/7/

Below the Clouds (2025)
Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.
poster
72
46
7.1
/1055/
64
/35/
67
/54/
3.7
/1754/
92
/13/
67
/11/

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)
The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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Netflix
69
44
6.5
/883/
62
/42/
67
/30/
3.4
/2120/
91
/22/
72
/4/
64
/7/
cc age 13+

Bombay Rose (2019)
Amidst the bustle of a magnetic and multifaceted city, the budding love between two dreamers is tested by duty and religious divides.
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Kanopy
72
44
7.0
/1362/
71
/53/
72
/171/
3.7
/4619/
80
/5/
70
/1/

Ricordi? (2019)
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
poster
69
37
6.3
/684/
55
/20/
65
/35/
3.2
/1277/
38
/8/

Leonora addio (2022)
A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy in 1930s Brooklyn for what is described as a surreal, grotesque, complex narrative.
poster
61
36
6.1
/1072/
61
/35/
61
/151/
3.1
/1914/

Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his best friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region of Italy with all its misty hills...But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.
poster
60
32
6.3
/1177/
58
/25/
59
/18/
3.4
/918/
70
/40/
45
/22/

Belle Toujours (2006)
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her.
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Kanopy
54
31
6.0
/1607/
59
/64/
54
/112/
2.7
/3761/
38
/8/
60
/2/

Orphan (2017)
A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.
poster
72
31
7.1
/1359/
66
/25/
62
/29/
3.8
/1969/
86
/2/

3000 Nights (2015)
Iman, a young newly wed Palestinian bride, is arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. As she struggles to survive and raise her child behind bars, she is torn between her instinct as a mother and the difficult decisions she must make, finding through her relationship with the other prisoners - both Palestinian and Israeli – the time and space to reflect, develop and mature as a young woman.
poster
70
29
6.4
/306/
64
/5/
54
/8/
3.4
/636/
100
/7/

Central Airport THF (2018)
A documentary about Berlin's former airport Tempelhof. A film about Departures and Arrivals. And about those Berliners who come here to escape from their daily lives and those refugees who came here to finally arrive somewhere.
poster
MUBI
68
28
6.3
/172/
61
/9/
68
/11/
3.5
/761/
80
/10/

A Dramatic Film (2019)
Artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire spent four years interacting with the pupils of a film class, at a secondary school in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. Keeping himself on the sidelines, he gives way to the children to express their thoughts and dreams. Their remarks are intuitive, inquisitive, yet passionate and surprisingly mature, concerning rocky and complicated issues, ranging from racism, immigration, and identity, all the way to the possibilities of film as a medium. As time flows almost unnoticed, it is evident that these children have not only become the co-directors of this film but also the heroes of their own lives.
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Kanopy
58
26
6.5
/316/
62
/11/
64
/22/
3.4
/487/
62
/21/
33
/1/
56
/8/

La Maison de la Radio (2013)
Making a film about a radio station doesn’t sound like the most visually compelling of projects. How many takes do you need before the acoustic transition from the opening to the closing of a door is perfect or the reader's voice correctly modulated? Nicolas Philibert has accepted the challenge to portray that which cannot be seen. Shouldering his camera, he spent half a year wandering the endless corridors of Radio France’s ‘round house’ on the banks of the Seine where he filmed people who dedicate themselves utterly and meticulously to their work.
poster
73
26
7.6
/355/
70
/8/
66
/10/
3.7
/486/
80

Silvered Water (2014)
Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians” according to the filmmakers, SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT impressionistically documents the destruction and atrocities of the civil war through a combination of eye-witness accounts shot on mobile phones and posted to the internet, and footage shot by Bedirxan during the siege of Homs. Bedirxan, an elementary school teacher in Homs, had contacted Mohammed online to ask him what he would film, if he was there. Mohammed, working in forced exile in Paris, is tormented by feelings of cowardice as he witnesses the horrors from afar, and the self-reflexive film also chronicles how he is haunted in his dreams by a Syrian boy once shot to death for snatching his camera on the street.
poster
70
25
7.2
/271/
60
/8/
70
/12/
3.9
/1793/

The Seats of the Alcazar (1989)
A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at the now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s.
poster
64
24
6.7
/361/
52
/15/
64
/19/
3.8
/1177/

Barres (1984)
The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.
poster
57
21
5.7
/424/
54
/25/
59
/87/
3.0
/427/

Houseguests (2020)
A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge.
poster
59
21
6.4
/647/
59
/16/
66
/54/
3.4
/534/
38
/3/

We Believed (2010)
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
poster
73
20
7.8
/400/
69
/10/
72
/13/
3.8
/893/

Chile: Obstinate Memory (1997)
After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.
poster
Kanopy
72
17
7.9
/349/
60
/6/
73
/11/
4.0
/799/

Route One/USA (1989)
Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who spent many years in Africa, returns to the U.S. and decides to reconnect with his home country by walking the legendary Route One.
poster
84
16
8.4
/119/
91
/7/
84
/6/
4.0
/942/

The Trial (2023)
Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people and other State crimes.
poster
63
16
6.7
/242/
61
/12/
58
/7/
3.4
/1222/

The Siren (2023)
November 1980. Southern Iran. We are at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Abadan, the capital of the Iranian petrol industry resists the repeated assaults of the Iraqi army, but is soon under full siege. Omid, a 14-year-old boy, has stayed back in the city, with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to come back from the frontline. Along with Omid, we discover several other uncommon characters, each one having stayed for a personal reason. Each one resisting in his own way. But as the Iraqi siege of the city hardens, Omid has to quickly find a way to save those he loves.
poster
59
16
6.6
/274/
47
/13/
53
/18/
3.6
/716/

Essai d'ouverture (1988)
A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
poster
64
15
6.7
/98/
60
/7/
59
/10/
3.6
/910/

The Fabulous Ones (2022)
It often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes place in secret, and on the tomb appears the name the deceased had before their transition, in one stroke nullifying the entire life path they had chosen. The same thing happened to Antonia. Her girlfriends gather to honor her memory and give her back her identity denied. In telling her story, the film’s stars, all drawn from the variegated transgender world, interweave the narrative with tales of their own lives, experiences, and memories.
poster
DocAlliance Films
68
15
7.6
/126/
54
/7/
67
/10/
3.8
/865/

Récréations (1993)
As French kindergarteners pour forth for recess, play takes on epic proportions. In every corner, some miniature drama is unfolding. Violence, love, jealousy, treachery are all here! This is human society in the making.
poster
67
15
7.0
/332/
62
/14/
68
/14/
3.5
/489/

Rage (2018)
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
poster
61
13
7.0
/113/
40
/5/
64
/14/
3.6
/591/

Disneyland - My Good Old Native Country (2000)
Disneyland reviewed by a true poet of cinema, Arnaud Pallières. A disturbing journey into the simulacrum.
poster
DocAlliance Films
59
13
6.1
/292/
60
/8/
67
/17/
3.4
/422/
40
/6/

God's Offices (2008)
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
poster
63
11
6.8
/324/
64
/5/
57
/6/
3.4
/220/
62
/15/

Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world's most humane prison; the Salk Institute, an institute for breakthrough science; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine. CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE explores how each of these landmarks reflects our culture and guards our collective memory.
poster
Hoopla
64
10
6.6
/73/
70
/4/
50
/1/
3.5
/928/

The Falling Sky (2025)
Documentary about Indigenous peoples' profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and the ecosystem they call home.
poster
60
8
6.2
/129/
56
/8/
55
/11/
3.5
/239/

La Cabale des oursins (1992)
A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
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DocAlliance Films
50
7
6.0
/300/
53
/6/
50
/14/
3.2
/226/
25
/2/

Gare du Nord (2013)
Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here...
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?
80

Le monde selon Pierre Loti (2025)
The incredible house of Pierre Loti (1850-1923) in Rochefort will reopen to the public in June 2025. This is an opportunity to look back on the romantic life of one of the most widely read and translated authors of his time. The writer-officer, who joined the navy at the age of 17, traveled around the world as his assignments took him. Through his literary work, he built a sensitive memory of the diversity of cultures at the turn of the 20th century, questioning the major geopolitical upheavals of his time. The film draws heavily on Loti's own words, combined with a collection of rare archives from the period.
poster
71
?
6.8
/22/
3.7
/488/

Life After Siham (2026)
When Siham passed away, Namir didn’t realize that she was gone forever. In a child’s mind, mothers are immortal… To keep her memory alive, Namir delves into his family history across Egypt and France. With the cinema of Youssef Chahine as his companion, a story of exile — and above all, of love — begins to unfold.
poster
?
100
/1/

Ballade à Devil's Tower (1992)
At the peak of her career as a rock climber, Catherine Destivelle goes to the United States to get away from the competitions and to recharge batteries. There, Destivelle travels by car through Utah and Wyoming to make spectacular free solo ascents in Indian Creek, where she soloes 'Supercrack' (5.10d), in Dead Horse Point State Park, and on the iconic Devil's Tower, where she climbs unroped the second half of the classic 130-foot route 'El Matador' (5.10d).
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?
6.6
/9/

Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: Le théâtre du langage (2015)
Most of the time, Roland Barthes is classified in the category of the 1970s intellectuals, where all his fascinating singularity fades. Our movie holds exactly to the desire of making perceptible his singularity. In this purpose, the movie is constituted by an editing of archives, articulated around Barthes presence and the progress of his career. It is thus a kind of a Roland Barthes’s cinematic version by Roland Barthes, a self–portrait that could be resumed by a point of view as accurate as possible.
poster
64
?
5.6
/51/
66
/8/
71
/5/
3.3
/223/

I Saw a King (2025)
1936, in the aftermath of the Ethiopian occupation by Fascist Italy, under the incredulous gaze of the inhabitants of the small town in the Italian province Abraham Imirrù, an ethiopian prince and guerrila fighter is being held prisoner in the local Podesta garden's aviary. But for little Emilio, local recently force enlisted and reality-dissociated Balilla, he is Sandokan, the literal Salgari's character ...and he will be his hero.


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