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8.9
/23719/
84
/313/
83
/255/
4.5
/48739/
100
/56/
98
/90/
cc age 15+

O.J.: Made in America (2016)
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
91
9.0
/1479423/
87
/21208/
86
/13550/
4.6
/1266160/
96
/129/
97
/18705/
90
/18/
cc age 16+

The Godfather Part II (1974)
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
poster
91
8.7
/1376037/
85
/25988/
84
/13981/
4.5
/1954984/
93
/167/
97
/29226/
92
/21/
cc age 18+

GoodFellas (1990)
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
90
7.5
/7767/
72
/206/
75
/152/
3.8
/14481/
98
/53/
91
/6/
82
/15/

There Is No Evil (2020)
Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis when having to deal with death penalties.
90
IMDb 65
9.1
/3130063/
88
/87842/
85
/35111/
4.5
/3949080/
94
/341/
94
/173380/
85
/41/
cc age 15+

The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
poster
89
8.4
/27532/
82
/467/
80
/594/
4.3
/17702/
94
/62/
98
/603/
89
/28/

The Best of Youth (2003)
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
poster
89
8.1
/28819/
78
/704/
79
/718/
4.4
/60259/
97
/78/
94
/535/
99
/24/

Army of Shadows (1969)
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
89
8.4
/70118/
84
/1493/
83
/1074/
4.6
/191160/
97
/70/
95
/557/
90
/17/

High and Low (1963)
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
89
IMDb 50
9.3
/3153778/
91
/52592/
87
/29667/
4.6
/2523308/
89
/146/
98
/53482/
82
/22/
cc age 15+

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
89
8.6
/1555902/
84
/47485/
82
/21897/
4.2
/2364777/
94
/206/
96
/34707/
90
/24/
cc age 8+

Star Wars (1977)
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
88
8.1
/30372/
79
/611/
79
/595/
4.3
/66750/
100
/43/
93
/288/

A Man Escaped (1956)
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
88
8.0
/196693/
79
/3222/
77
/1567/
4.2
/115660/
100
/56/
95
/4203/
92
/16/
cc age 14+

Cool Hand Luke (1967)
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
poster
88
8.5
/1538806/
83
/31603/
81
/15837/
4.3
/1429956/
91
/285/
94
/58098/
85
/39/
cc age 17+

The Departed (2006)
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
88
7.9
/94232/
79
/3613/
78
/2229/
4.3
/283624/
99
/230/
91
/198/
93
/40/
cc age 16+

Shoplifters (2018)
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
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8.5
/23121/
82
/594/
82
/539/
4.5
/49390/
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/19/
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/114/

Le Trou (1960)
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.
poster
87
8.0
/104683/
79
/2457/
78
/2087/
4.2
/213062/
96
/163/
92
/7559/
90
/31/
cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
poster
87
8.1
/247224/
78
/4007/
78
/2295/
4.2
/110878/
96
/103/
93
/2260/
88
/16/
cc age 11+

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
87
8.1
/40849/
77
/698/
78
/754/
4.2
/46739/
97
/74/
92
/622/

Grand Illusion (1937)
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
poster
87
8.0
/106681/
77
/2215/
78
/1772/
4.3
/224789/
93
/87/
90
/1894/
97
/21/

The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
87
8.2
/3582/
81
/167/
75
/64/
4.4
/18284/
100
/12/

Streetwise (1984)
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
87
8.2
/8861/
79
/206/
77
/90/
3.9
/2441/
96
/97/
94
/1228/
89
/28/

No End in Sight (2007)
Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over.
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8.2
/39133/
81
/2484/
79
/773/
4.3
/117244/
97
/105/
90
/240/
81
/29/
cc age 16+

13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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8.6
/1701471/
85
/36205/
83
/17540/
4.3
/2743040/
95
/158/
95
/29661/
86
/20/
cc age 17+

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
86
7.6
/28335/
77
/1340/
75
/320/
4.3
/299685/
97
/215/
98
/77/
83
/43/
cc age 15+

Sing Sing (2024)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
86
8.0
/41662/
77
/663/
76
/588/
4.1
/25175/
100
/51/
93
/729/
cc age 13+

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
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8.2
/25477/
79
/399/
79
/642/
4.3
/40825/
91
/33/
94
/189/
84
/7/

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
86
8.4
/159951/
82
/2431/
82
/1613/
4.4
/113664/
100
/41/
95
/743/
76
/12/
cc age 11+

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
86
7.9
/10569/
79
/308/
79
/229/
4.2
/48777/
94
/17/
93
/134/

Pixote (1980)
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
poster
86
7.9
/31377/
76
/775/
76
/702/
4.2
/60590/
96
/67/
92
/419/
92
/19/

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
86
8.5
/44989/
83
/1802/
80
/563/
4.4
/90833/
94
/51/
96
/1065/
82
/11/
cc age 16+

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
poster
86
7.8
/106946/
77
/2212/
75
/1682/
4.2
/88713/
96
/163/
89
/2110/
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/31/

A Prophet (2009)
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
poster
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8.1
/956466/
80
/29374/
80
/15707/
4.2
/2785288/
92
/313/
87
/5569/
88
/48/
cc age 16+

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
85
8.2
/275585/
80
/4910/
79
/2762/
4.2
/142207/
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/53/
95
/4760/
86
/16/
cc age 8+

The Great Escape (1963)
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
85
8.2
/9694/
78
/209/
78
/213/
4.2
/20984/
87
/68/
90
/109/

Napoleon (1927)
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
85
7.7
/7616/
73
/156/
73
/196/
4.2
/20854/
94
/35/
91
/96/
89
/18/

The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
85
7.7
/11649/
79
/265/
74
/199/
4.0
/28376/
100
/13/
89
/128/

The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
poster
85
8.1
/47632/
78
/1663/
75
/902/
4.2
/81573/
100
/21/
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/481/
cc age 7+

A Close Shave (1996)
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
poster
85
8.3
/245328/
82
/5389/
81
/3131/
4.4
/506554/
91
/124/
92
/1357/
80
/42/

Incendies (2010)
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
85
7.9
/302561/
77
/6682/
76
/3450/
4.2
/602399/
91
/158/
89
/6371/
86
/28/
cc age 18+

Boogie Nights (1997)
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
poster
85
8.1
/236027/
79
/6105/
79
/3650/
4.1
/244451/
94
/156/
92
/617/
77
/33/
cc age 15+

Wild Tales (2014)
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
poster
84
7.9
/517965/
77
/10531/
77
/7253/
3.9
/464138/
89
/203/
89
/7572/
84
/42/
cc age 17+

Mystic River (2003)
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
84
7.8
/5316/
76
/99/
73
/133/
4.0
/6441/
100
/8/
85
/16/

The Confession (1970)
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.
84
8.1
/390091/
79
/6331/
77
/3075/
3.9
/135254/
91
/188/
94
/12274/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
84
7.7
/16099/
75
/262/
73
/291/
4.0
/25367/
93
/27/
90
/197/

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
84
8.3
/28003/
82
/1788/
80
/578/
4.2
/84810/
94
85
/41/
cc age 10+

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.
poster
84
8.4
/122374/
83
/2733/
81
/1915/
4.2
/120329/
90
/181/
93
/194/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
84
7.7
/5160/
76
/116/
73
/111/
4.0
/15993/
92
/12/
92
/45/

Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
84
7.6
/9107/
74
/242/
72
/218/
3.9
/20411/
100
/24/
87
/175/

The Man Who Laughs (1928)
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.


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