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Kanopy
89
8.6
/857997/
85
/13573/
84
/7895/
4.6
/959916/
91
/163/
97
/15603/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.2
/198435/
79
/3654/
81
/2972/
4.2
/235499/
97
/140/
92
/3876/
98
/14/
cc age 12+

Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
8.6
/541784/
84
/8965/
82
/4664/
4.4
/598520/
94
/97/
95
/14066/
89
/17/
cc age 9+

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3514/
81
/163/
74
/64/
4.4
/17109/
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
87
8.5
/994534/
84
/15499/
83
/9791/
4.4
/1069688/
95
/186/
96
/10821/
85
/40/
cc age 15+

The Pianist (2002)
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
poster
Netflix
86
8.2
/38971/
81
/2462/
78
/771/
4.3
/115785/
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.
poster
HBO Max
85
8.2
/35893/
81
/1041/
78
/523/
3.8
/23041/
100
/30/
94
/824/
cc age 14+

Temple Grandin (2010)
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
7.8
/282490/
82
/25259/
80
/10184/
3.9
/589221/
93
/323/
93
/2737/
74
/47/
cc age 10+

Hidden Figures (2016)
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
poster
Netflix
83
7.7
/8629/
76
/430/
71
/155/
4.1
/32943/
100
/100/
90
/50/
86
/29/
cc age 15+

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.9
/2356/
76
/52/
74
/32/
4.1
/5592/
98
/49/
88
/45/
87
/4/

Nothing But a Man (1964)
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
poster
Netflix
83
7.9
/6386/
75
/205/
74
/94/
4.0
/5764/
96
/23/
91
/35/
85
/25/
cc age 13+

The Last Days (1998)
Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in concentration camps, and visiting childhood homes more than 50 years later. An historian, a Sonderkommando, a doctor who experimented on Auschwitz prisoners, and US soldiers who were part of the liberation in April 1945.
poster
Netflix
82
7.6
/2933/
76
/122/
75
/34/
3.9
/8917/
100
/23/
87
/16/
cc age 15+

To Kill a Tiger (2023)
Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.
poster
Netflix
82
8.2
/104662/
79
/789/
73
/356/
3.9
/27110/
89
/9/
91
/483/
cc age 9+

Swades (2004)
A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.
poster
HBO Max
82
7.9
/39344/
79
/1538/
77
/898/
3.8
/26310/
94
/49/
88
/379/
cc age 17+

The Normal Heart (2014)
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
poster
82
7.5
/184758/
74
/3353/
72
/2320/
3.8
/107662/
93
/241/
89
/11621/
83
/39/
cc age 16+

Milk (2008)
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
IMDb 44
7.6
/319398/
76
/14924/
75
/2995/
4.1
/2859543/
97
/418/
96
/9439/
84
/55/
cc age 16+

Sinners (2025)
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
poster
81
8.1
/1448/
80
/46/
77
/23/
3.7
/584/
97
/30/
84
/88/
cc age 9+

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.8
/228917/
78
/6578/
75
/3112/
3.8
/76320/
85
/186/
87
/6162/
76
/36/
cc age 18+

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
poster
The Roku Channel
80
7.2
/122247/
71
/2627/
71
/2085/
3.8
/135587/
84
/56/
82
/3065/
85
/18/
cc age 17+

Easy Rider (1969)
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
poster
fuboTV
80
8.0
/40948/
78
/3444/
74
/623/
3.6
/94525/
95
/21/
84
/3040/
cc age 3+

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudolph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...
poster
80
7.4
/4068/
73
/79/
72
/101/
3.8
/2785/
82
/11/
84
/51/
83
/23/

Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
8.0
/17125/
79
/460/
78
/287/
3.6
/7558/
93
/598/
cc age 15+

Something the Lord Made (2004)
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.7
/3584/
76
/55/
73
/61/
3.8
/1394/
89
/19/
91
/135/

The King of Masks (1995)
Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
poster
79
7.4
/7123/
73
/85/
68
/87/
3.8
/6993/
94
/64/
79
/99/
85
/28/

The Circle (2000)
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
poster
79
7.3
/51017/
70
/786/
70
/650/
3.8
/45031/
87
/222/
79
/1099/
84
/37/
cc age 16+

Far from Heaven (2002)
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
poster
79
7.9
/745067/
77
/23601/
74
/10003/
3.8
/490745/
90
/309/
82
/39343/
81
/36/
cc age 17+

District 9 (2009)
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.1
/35553/
70
/1525/
70
/672/
3.7
/85501/
98
/348/
78
/134/
83
/51/
cc age 15+

One Night in Miami... (2020)
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
IMDb 37
7.4
/198520/
74
/11686/
69
/2685/
3.8
/2340974/
88
/406/
95
/15122/
73
/63/
cc age 10+

Wicked (2024)
In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
poster
Disney Plus
78
7.9
/35429/
79
/2779/
74
/1260/
3.6
/66821/
88
/92/

For the Birds (2000)
One by one, a flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire. Sitting close together has problems enough, and then comes along a large dopey bird that tries to join them. The birds of a feather can't help but make fun of him - and their clique mentality proves embarrassing in the end.
poster
78
7.9
/192798/
81
/12141/
81
/8106/
3.6
/530064/
86
/189/
88
/1328/
66
/33/
cc age 10+

Wonder (2017)
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.2
/800/
67
/41/
66
/26/
4.0
/2330/
96
/52/
79
/3/

In Jackson Heights (2015)
Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which lays claim to being the most diverse neighbourhood in the world.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.2
/2193/
77
/52/
66
/26/
3.7
/2366/
100
/9/
85
/118/

Powwow Highway (1989)
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.1
/3415/
71
/91/
67
/87/
3.7
/4889/
98
/40/
75
/22/
83
/16/

Ixcanul (2015)
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
poster
Kanopy
80
78
7.8
/11293/
77
/272/
77
/265/
4.1
/21195/
90
/30/
83
/78/
79
/14/

Oasis (2002)
A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.
poster
78
7.6
/51309/
73
/558/
74
/363/
3.8
/25561/
86
/21/
88
/1002/

Devdas (2002)
In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.
poster
MGM Plus
78
7.5
/141776/
75
/3659/
73
/1797/
3.7
/125528/
85
/96/
79
/6197/
71
/32/
cc age 15+

Pleasantville (1998)
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
poster
78
7.7
/342132/
79
/13167/
76
/6686/
3.8
/327513/
82
/68/
87
/8358/
64
/20/
cc age 14+

Gattaca (1997)
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
7.6
/1613/
73
/88/
56
/42/
3.9
/4486/
100
/67/
68
/12/
81
/18/

The Janes (2022)
Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.
poster
Fandor
77
7.4
/5722/
72
/74/
68
/82/
3.8
/6404/
88
/85/
81
/72/
82
/26/

Crimson Gold (2003)
Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he finds a purse filled with shockingly expensive receipts from an upscale jewelry store. He attempts to bring the purse back to the store, but because of his working-class attire, he's not allowed inside. Then, during a delivery, a rich man invites Hussein into his extravagant mansion – an event that spurs Hussein to make a desperate bid for wealth.
poster
Hoopla
80
77
7.8
/14958/
77
/312/
77
/269/
3.8
/9866/
94
/79/

Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.2
/1904/
69
/59/
70
/21/
3.7
/6996/
100
/28/
60
/5/
83
/7/

Inshallah a Boy (2024)
After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
poster
76
7.7
/89493/
78
/2574/
76
/1415/
4.0
/110881/
76
/46/
87
/42/
64
/21/
cc age 13+

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
poster
Disney Plus
76
7.4
/217600/
76
/13877/
77
/8746/
3.7
/1224224/
91
/307/
85
/950/
71
/52/
cc age 6+

Luca (2021)
Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
poster
Hulu
76
7.6
/15517/
77
/790/
75
/302/
3.8
/26962/
93
/179/
78
/299/
71
/32/
cc age 10+

RBG (2018)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.
poster
76
7.7
/40020/
76
/1383/
76
/747/
4.2
/74523/
70
/33/
86
/1271/
62
/15/
7.9
/110888/

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
D, a legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman who has seemingly been abducted by vampire nobleman Meier Link.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
7.2
/15978/
73
/1073/
66
/303/
3.5
/8478/
85
/47/
82
/119/

All the Way (2016)
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
75
6.8
/3663/
71
/664/
71
/161/
3.6
/26854/
100
/10/

The Red Virgin (2024)
Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.4
/13868/
77
/643/
74
/586/
3.9
/27315/
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.


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