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HBO Max Amazon Channel
87
8.3
/477637/
84
/15591/
83
/8733/
4.4
/1497879/
93
/123/
94
/12005/
78
/31/
8.6
/877520/
cc age 12+

Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.0
/27887/
77
/514/
76
/539/
4.1
/45197/
97
/32/
90
/404/

Viridiana (1962)
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
poster
83
8.1
/269235/
78
/4663/
79
/3018/
4.1
/121332/
87
/54/
89
/3851/
90
/9/
cc age 13+

Ben-Hur (1959)
In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
poster
82
7.8
/8964/
73
/224/
73
/138/
3.9
/11096/
96
/78/
90
/341/
83
/27/

Bus 174 (2002)
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
poster
Netflix
79
8.3
/1152647/
82
/22543/
79
/10833/
3.9
/467985/
76
/131/
85
/1198232/
68
/20/
cc age 17+

Braveheart (1995)
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
77
7.8
/6200/
76
/164/
73
/143/
4.3
/24525/
100
/7/
95
/54/

The House Is Black (1963)
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
poster
77
7.7
/108425/
75
/1822/
74
/1391/
3.9
/79364/
83
/159/
92
/4665/
75
/37/
cc age 16+

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
poster
76
7.3
/10576/
71
/200/
71
/233/
3.8
/11037/
85
/13/
83
/121/

Red Sorghum (1988)
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
poster
75
7.2
/3459/
69
/30/
71
/33/
3.6
/1173/
77
/31/
89
/100/

Three Seasons (1999)
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.4
/13995/
76
/650/
74
/588/
3.9
/28219/
84
/58/
85
/47/
60
/16/

Sweet Bean (2015)
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
poster
Kanopy
73
8.0
/144985/
78
/2758/
78
/2058/
4.0
/59414/
73
/33/
90
/1635/
58
/10/
cc age 15+

Papillon (1973)
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
poster
JustWatch TV
79
70
7.8
/8332/
68
/76/
73
/110/
3.8
/3499/
96
/25/
86
/83/

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.8
/90790/
68
/2613/
67
/1686/
3.5
/156719/
76
/71/
65
/1979/
55
/11/
cc age 15+

The Fog (1980)
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
60
7.3
/4918/
65
/105/
68
/142/
3.7
/9813/
74
/37/

À propos de Nice (1930)
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
poster
Kanopy
60
5.9
/12194/
65
/823/
62
/565/
3.0
/11857/
44
/112/
48
/89/
48
/24/
cc age 14+

Mary Magdalene (2018)
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
poster
59
6.7
/31389/
68
/742/
64
/414/
3.2
/10733/
35
/31/
72
/581/
45
/16/

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
poster
Kanopy
70
59
6.8
/2929/
65
/85/
65
/90/
3.3
/2330/
86
/7/
73
/120/

The Ten Commandments (1923)
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
5.7
/49253/
68
/6361/
57
/1753/
2.5
/20919/
24
/186/
52
/852/
38
/34/
cc age 14+

Ben-Hur (2016)
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
poster
Kanopy
67
51
6.6
/3211/
64
/68/
61
/115/
3.5
/3146/
88
/8/
57
/13/

The Indian Tomb (1959)
Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.
poster
Kanopy
73
49
7.3
/2031/
72
/48/
69
/34/
3.6
/2155/
77
/30/
90
/8/
62
/12/

Yomeddine (2018)
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
44
7.3
/1752/
73
/36/
73
/51/
3.8
/2616/
60
/15/

The Castle of Sand (1974)
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
poster
63
42
6.4
/2890/
68
/41/
63
/43/
3.2
/721/
67
/6/
54
/26/

The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
poster
46
38
5.0
/3282/
47
/133/
47
/80/
2.6
/1921/
34
/54/

Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
37
6.9
/1570/
65
/27/
60
/17/
3.3
/385/
63
/8/
78
/45/

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
poster
Kanopy
30
3.7
/41157/
48
/1191/
45
/800/
1.8
/20381/
4
/68/
19
/4375/
27
/16/
cc age 15+

The Fog (2005)
Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.
poster
MGM Plus
58
26
6.2
/1612/
59
/25/
54
/19/
3.1
/398/
52
/127/

The Hawaiians (1970)
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
poster
The Roku Channel
42
18
5.1
/1125/
42
/28/
49
/29/
2.4
/1224/
21
/4/

Time to Kill (1989)
During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest army hospital, losing his sanity in the process.
poster
61
16
6.6
/935/
60
/8/
61
/18/
3.3
/332/
50
/11/

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
poster
65
15
7.5
/213/
54
/5/
57
/13/
3.8
/790/

The Order (1973)
Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.
poster
63
11
6.7
/460/
61
/8/
59
/13/
3.4
/271/

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur (1921)
Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
poster
Pluto TV
38
11
3.6
/535/
52
/18/
43
/18/
2.7
/591/
7
/92/

The Swamp of the Ravens (1974)
Dr. Frosta dumps body parts and corpses in the marsh, where they rise up again for vengeance.
poster
Hoopla
51
9
4.8
/263/
51
/6/
49
/8/
2.7
/691/

The Seventh Grave (1965)
Ghosts and dead bodies infest a small nineteenth-century village.
poster
57
9
6.7
/123/
30
/3/
55
/6/
3.8
/529/

The Annunciation of Marie (1991)
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacques marries her younger sister Mara. Jacques and Mara's first child dies soon after its birth, and Mara begs Violaine to return from seclusion to restore the child to life.
poster
Plex
33
8
3.4
/687/
41
/19/
32
/16/
2.6
/538/
7
/8/

The Dungeon of Harrow (1964)
A man is shipwrecked on the island of a cruel Count and taken prisoner.
poster
?
6.2
/14/
90
/1/
35
/4/

The Women at Själö (2008)
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital opened in 1622. Intended for those suffering leprosy. But Själö hospital also had a secret ward. A house for the insane. The ungodly and mentally ill were deposited here forever and their property fell to the church. In 1889 Själö became a storage area for women with "unbearable insanity".
poster
?
7.2
/72/
15
/2/

Agimat, Anting-anting Ni Lolo (2002)
Pao is a young schoolboy who inherits an amulet from his grandfather. butt before he can use its power, he must first past three formidable test to prove his strength and determination. After passing the two test , Pao comes face to face with Paolo his grown-up alter-ego and battles him in a difficult duel. Although bruised and weak Pao still manages to pass the last test. With the power of the amulet no on his side Pao must fight the evil creatures led by Queen Manananggal, Evil Queen and Ancient Evil. Together Pao and Paolo must ruin these evil beings' plan of destroying mankind.
poster
?
6.4
/44/
10
/1/

Night Rose: Akhbar's Daughter (1987)
A businessman falls for a client's daughter who seems icy by day, and passionate by night.
poster
?
8.5
/11/
60
/2/
70
/1/

The Boat (2023)
When Dhuckia's father discovers that she is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, he must make a devastating choice. Based on a true story.
poster
?
6.5
/18/
70
/1/

Damien (1978)
Terence Knapp plays Father Damien in this TV adaptation of the stage play. Damien goes to Hawaii in the late 1800s to care for lepers. Now deceased from leprosy, Father Damien appears as a spirit recounting his life as his funeral procession is carried out.
poster
?
7.2
/11/
70
/1/

Llagas (2012)
N/A
poster
?
6.6
/20/
70
/2/
65
/2/

Triumph at Carville: A Tale of Leprosy in America (2005)
A little-known facet of American history comes to life in this fascinating account of Carville, La., a former plantation made over into a community established for victims of leprosy from around the world. Featuring rare photographs as well as recent interviews, the program takes you inside the daily workings of one of the most intriguing medical establishments this nation has ever seen.
poster
?
6.7
/88/
10
/1/

Damien: The Leper Priest (1980)
A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.
poster
?
8.5
/12/

Pagbabalik ng Lawin (1975)
Young Guiller and his mother were sold as slaves to a rich miner after their ship was captured by armed men who also killed their family patriarch. After Guiller escapes the enslavement and was marooned on an unknown island, he then plots his revenge to regain his family's honor.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.8
/26/

The Ball Method (2020)
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
poster
?
5.0
/16/
10
/1/

The Bottle Imp (1917)
Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless Lopaka can bring him two feather cloaks from a rare bird. While searching the mountains for the bird, Lopaka encounters a dying priest of Pele who sells him a wishing bottle in which Kono, the god of the volcanos, is confined.
poster
?
5.4
/46/
10
/1/
60
/2/

The Malady of Love (1986)
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.
poster
The Roku Channel
66
?
7.1
/23/
62
/12/
58
/5/
3.5
/401/

El Che (2017)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figure in Cuba's political history.
poster
?
5.9
/7/
30
/2/

The Leper (1975)
Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again, and he must be by himself in the far woods. Bathing in olive oil, as suggested by an old woman, proves ineffective. Now, he becomes violent, expressing his anguish against those who expelled him from the village. Production date is 1975. Had its first major public release in 2009, at MotelX, Lisbon's International Horror Film Festival in the section "Lost Room". The movie was suggested to the MotelX production by the portuguese director António Macedo who knew about the existence of this and other portuguese movies about popular legends and myths of the portuguese imaginary. The movie was archived and conserved by the portuguese Cinematheque.


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