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poster
88
8.5
/1537576/
83
/31500/
81
/15821/
4.3
/1420040/
91
/285/
94
/58094/
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.
poster
83
8.0
/246451/
76
/3588/
76
/2449/
3.7
/76887/
89
/112/
92
/2460/
79
/16/
cc age 12+

Gandhi (1982)
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
8.1
/51405/
77
/828/
77
/569/
4.1
/26124/
88
/64/
89
/84/
73
/18/

Tangerines (2013)
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
poster
Disney Plus
81
IMDb 86
7.9
/1482441/
78
/69308/
76
/33341/
3.7
/2671943/
81
/335/
82
/83119/
83
/38/
cc age 13+

Avatar (2009)
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
75
7.2
/13442/
71
/251/
69
/263/
3.7
/35338/
100
/24/
81
/253/
86
/11/

Shadows (1960)
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
poster
85
75
8.6
/18852/
81
/141/
79
/101/
4.2
/6796/
95
/53/

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
poster
75
7.1
/11389/
76
/530/
73
/388/
3.5
/7740/
73
/11/
90
/450/
66
/11/
cc age 17+

American Me (1992)
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.3
/8529/
73
/310/
71
/175/
3.6
/11941/
81
/109/
71
/21/
72
/25/
cc age 18+

The Painted Bird (2019)
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
poster
77
67
8.0
/15051/
78
/119/
70
/59/
4.1
/9836/
79
/55/

Hey Ram (2000)
Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.
poster
Hoopla
67
6.7
/8085/
67
/165/
64
/119/
3.4
/2388/
80
/35/
74
/138/
72
/24/

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
poster
Hoopla
66
6.7
/43877/
66
/776/
64
/515/
3.5
/39714/
50
/103/
60
/933/
67
/26/

Summer of Sam (1999)
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.7
/8897/
72
/541/
66
/290/
3.1
/3568/
72
/81/
66
/85/
53
/16/
cc age 12+

Viceroy's House (2017)
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
poster
Starz
61
5.7
/4404/
67
/991/
68
/201/
2.7
/5745/
65
/43/
88
/123/
44
/7/
cc age 16+

1992 (2024)
In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.
poster
71
61
7.6
/5581/
72
/54/
67
/49/
3.4
/2336/
56
/9/
88
/412/

The Rocket (2005)
The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
poster
61
6.5
/36969/
64
/694/
60
/436/
3.1
/12425/
68
/181/
48
/2787/
62
/33/
cc age 18+

Hollywoodland (2006)
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
poster
59
6.7
/111912/
67
/2389/
63
/1253/
3.2
/33152/
56
/172/
51
/7889/
61
/33/
cc age 17+

The Good Shepherd (2006)
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
poster
71
57
7.3
/13650/
71
/151/
66
/111/
3.6
/4583/
76
/20/

The Parade (2011)
The Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade.
poster
Kanopy
57
6.1
/166238/
64
/6341/
60
/3052/
3.0
/86065/
64
/72/
49
/7631/
41
/15/
cc age 18+

Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
poster
Hoopla
69
53
6.9
/2818/
70
/77/
71
/183/
3.4
/3087/
70
/31/

Skirt Day (2008)
A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.
poster
64
52
6.6
/8016/
62
/84/
62
/48/
3.1
/1424/
71
/72/

Mission Kashmir (2000)
A police officer adopts the son and sole survivor of a family he has massacred while pursuing a terrorist. After some time the foster son finds out what the stepfather did.
poster
VIX
50
5.7
/22826/
61
/745/
62
/603/
2.8
/11932/
35
/267/
34
/9/

Death Warrant (1990)
Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. While there, Louis, using his outstanding martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in this violent world.
poster
59
42
6.0
/4737/
55
/57/
61
/30/
3.1
/882/
60
/48/

Fiza (2000)
In 1993 Fiza's brother disappears during the riots in Mumbai. In 1999 Fiza is tired of waiting and goes looking for him.
poster
Kanopy
68
42
7.1
/3901/
69
/40/
69
/58/
3.6
/1495/
59
/5/

The High Sun (2015)
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love.
poster
60
35
7.3
/1865/
60
/16/
50
/11/
3.4
/310/
47
/17/
71
/157/
57
/4/

Gandhi, My Father (2007)
Unable to live in his father's gigantic shadow, Mahatma Gandhi's eldest son, Harilal, gets distraught and resorts to alcoholism.
poster
75
32
7.1
/688/
63
/14/
71
/24/
3.7
/2243/
100
/7/

Blood of the Condor (1969)
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
poster
The CW
46
28
5.1
/3398/
49
/61/
48
/67/
2.8
/659/
28
/25/

No Way Back (1995)
When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafioso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only son's death in the same operation and kidnaps Zack's son to hold as bait. The action gets wild when airline stewardess Mary is taken hostage to add what seems an another insurmountable problem for Zack. There appears to be no way out.
poster
66
27
6.6
/1570/
60
/22/
54
/20/
3.6
/2184/
79
/1/

Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Sumru, a young ethnomusicologist in search of her lost lover, leaves Istanbul for a three-month research project in Diyarbakır. While crossing paths with locals and tracing the pains of others through a music project based on Anatolian mournings, she comes to confront the remnants of her own agony.
poster
71
22
7.3
/879/
63
/10/
73
/14/
3.5
/891/
79
/9/

Octobre (1994)
A dramatization of the abduction and murder of a Quebec government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front. In October 1970, one group from the same organization kidnapped James Cross, the British Trade Commissioner in Montreal. A few days later, a second group kidnapped Pierre Laporte, a minister of the Liberal government. The film tells the story of this last terrorist cell which ended in the cold blooded murder of Laporte.
poster
Hoopla
67
21
6.7
/564/
62
/14/
60
/17/
3.6
/920/
78
/10/

Wedding in Galilee (1987)
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
poster
70
17
7.9
/1415/
70
/9/
64
/12/
3.5
/276/

Maternal Half-Brothers (1988)
This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
poster
60
11
6.2
/327/
66
/13/
56
/21/
56
/2/

La Désintégration (2012)
Three young men meet Djamel (Yassine Azzouz), a charismatic manipulator, who turns the three friends against society.
poster
66
10
6.9
/1032/
70
/12/
54
/7/
3.4
/375/
70
/1/

Shadows and Faces (2010)
The story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
poster
?
7.2
/27/
20
/1/
80
/1/

Black October (2000)
A documentary recounting the kidnappings of British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Quebec Vice-Premier & Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte by the FLQ on October 5, 1970 in Quebec.
poster
?
6.3
/30/

Avrianos polemistis (1987)
Drama about a family split by the war in Cyprus.
poster
?
8.1
/20/

The Lebanon I Dream Of
My biggest dream is for the Lebanese Youth to wake up... To quit following blindly their traditional leaders.
poster
?
8.1
/59/

Burma Soldier (2010)
The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.
poster
70
?
7.8
/401/
60
/1/
63
/6/

Death on a Full Moon Day (1997)
Drama about a father who refuses to believe in his son's death at war.
poster
?
6.2
/37/
57
/3/

The Lost People (1949)
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
poster
?
6.0
/39/

Two Solitudes (1978)
The story of the problems caused by what became known as the Conscripton Crisis in 1917 Canada, which threatened to divide the country.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
?
6.5
/120/
61
/9/
50
/1/

The Boer War: 1899-1902 (1992)
Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902 was a turning point in British military history and would revolutionize tactics, battlefield strategy, equipment, and training. Well known participants in the Boar Wars include: Harry "Breaker" Morant, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi.
poster
50
?
7.5
/107/
10
/1/
65
/3/

New Delhi (1956)
Complications, impersonations and moral dilemmas arise when a Punjabi pretends to be a Tamil in order to obtain accommodation in New Delhi. An eloquent and entertaining plea for national unity that manages to showcase several cultural traditions whilst encouraging people to laugh both with and at each other.
poster
?
6.9
/76/
80
/2/

Good Bye, Southern City (2006)
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
poster
69
?
7.8
/572/
57
/7/
70
/9/
3.6
/366/

Cold Days (1966)
Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.
poster
72
?
7.8
/664/
70
/11/
72
/12/

The Germans Strike Again (1948)
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each other. Theodoros, a quiet and modest man, disgusted and disappointed, falls asleep and has a nightmare. Hitler is alive and the Nazis strike back with new, more powerful weapons.
poster
52
?
5.6
/335/
50
/4/
50
/2/

Işıklar Sönmesin (1996)
The struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia.
poster
67
?
7.5
/130/
50
/3/
75
/2/

Action : The October Crisis of 1970 (1973)
A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the outcome of FLQ terrorist acts. This film puts the October Crisis in the long perspective of history. Compiled from news and other films, it shows independence movements past and present, and their leaders; it reflects the mingled relief, dismay, defiance, when the Canadian army came to Montréal; and it shows how political leaders viewed the intervention.
poster
?
6.1
/87/
30
/4/
70
/2/

15.35: Spoor 1 (2003)
N/A
poster
54
?
5.7
/391/
42
/4/
63
/8/
54
/9/

The Long Run (2001)
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by


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