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Hoopla
93
9.2
/2183055/
88
/34806/
86
/22142/
4.5
/2249950/
97
/153/
98
/41096/
100
/16/
cc age 16+

The Godfather (1972)
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
poster
Hoopla
91
9.0
/1467769/
87
/20787/
86
/13376/
4.6
/1171782/
96
/129/
97
/18712/
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
89
8.2
/488892/
79
/7362/
79
/5829/
4.2
/578429/
99
/132/
90
/11624/
100
/19/
cc age 12+

Citizen Kane (1941)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
86
8.4
/685526/
83
/31143/
81
/7256/
4.4
/2815907/
92
/466/
95
/2263/
79
/62/
cc age 13+

Dune: Part Two (2024)
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
poster
86
7.8
/106488/
77
/2160/
76
/1658/
4.2
/83038/
96
/163/
89
/2109/
90
/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
83
7.7
/109091/
77
/3011/
75
/1801/
4.3
/171505/
89
/83/
91
/2301/
73
/15/
cc age 13+

Malcolm X (1992)
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Netflix
83
7.8
/463645/
75
/16460/
75
/7246/
3.9
/845547/
95
/468/
86
/325/
94
/55/
cc age 17+

The Irishman (2019)
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
poster
80
7.5
/7782/
71
/119/
68
/135/
3.9
/10374/
86
/29/
85
/122/

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
poster
Netflix
80
8.2
/1740040/
81
/58577/
80
/25235/
4.0
/3348198/
79
/283/
83
/9440/
75
/47/
cc age 17+

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
poster
79
7.4
/15825/
70
/277/
70
/294/
3.7
/20486/
93
/284/
74
/363/

Macbeth (1971)
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.3
/16218/
69
/245/
67
/189/
3.7
/10751/
96
/52/
85
/377/
86
/24/
cc age 15+

Richard III (1995)
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
poster
77
7.4
/109382/
74
/2177/
71
/1455/
3.6
/62348/
83
/66/
86
/4291/
75
/30/
cc age 16+

Elizabeth (1998)
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
poster
Hulu
75
7.6
/599968/
76
/24114/
73
/12422/
3.7
/851077/
82
/269/
77
/14776/
68
/39/
cc age 13+

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.
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Netflix
75
7.4
/200255/
75
/11076/
71
/3895/
3.6
/247591/
82
/304/
84
/959/
71
/46/
cc age 16+

Molly's Game (2017)
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/16129/
72
/636/
68
/245/
3.9
/44497/
87
/31/
78
/253/
67
/25/

Deep Cover (1992)
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
poster
83
74
8.6
/27391/
81
/169/
78
/88/
4.2
/16142/
86
/89/

Nayakan (1987)
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
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Netflix
75
73
7.7
/26009/
72
/304/
68
/131/
3.4
/9987/
92
/12/
84
/414/
70
/5/
cc age 13+

Guru (2007)
A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.
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Kanopy
73
6.3
/10309/
70
/638/
56
/197/
3.2
/5596/
92
/159/
71
/284/
74
/42/
cc age 13+

Southside with You (2016)
Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.
poster
72
6.7
/41563/
72
/1415/
66
/565/
3.4
/32505/
81
/37/
80
/1186/
61
/13/

New Jack City (1991)
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
poster
71
6.7
/31217/
65
/464/
62
/336/
3.3
/13609/
80
/79/
64
/543/
70
/30/
cc age 15+

Primary Colors (1998)
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
poster
71
7.0
/53066/
69
/2919/
67
/1871/
3.4
/57194/
81
/143/

Look Who's Back (2015)
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
7.1
/68016/
68
/3715/
68
/838/
3.6
/357812/
83
/249/
84
/115/
64
/54/
cc age 16+

The Apprentice (2024)
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
poster
Netflix
69
7.4
/639201/
76
/23186/
71
/11130/
3.4
/399117/
68
/202/
74
/9478/
59
/37/
cc age 17+

Limitless (2011)
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
poster
76
68
7.4
/8326/
75
/128/
72
/176/
3.7
/10944/
86
/29/
77
/91/

Macbeth (1948)
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
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Hoopla
71
68
7.0
/13163/
68
/276/
65
/179/
3.6
/12484/
89
/35/
74
/227/
66
/10/

The Candidate (1972)
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
poster
68
6.7
/15621/
69
/350/
64
/221/
3.4
/8140/
71
/52/
77
/603/
60
/15/

Gangster No. 1 (2000)
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
6.6
/61331/
61
/2153/
64
/1494/
3.5
/69896/
80
/193/
64
/515/
71
/35/
cc age 16+

Macbeth (2015)
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
poster
68
6.8
/200734/
68
/8566/
65
/3492/
3.1
/115151/
74
/289/
68
/2136/
68
/43/
cc age 18+

Black Mass (2015)
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
poster
65
7.1
/288787/
74
/21229/
69
/5256/
3.5
/468842/
62
/235/
69
/1043/
57
/41/
cc age 17+

War Dogs (2016)
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
poster
79
64
8.4
/8816/
80
/77/
74
/51/
4.1
/8848/

Iruvar (1997)
A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
poster
Hulu
64
6.3
/39157/
65
/803/
61
/494/
3.0
/26822/
63
/38/
68
/1796/
45
/23/
cc age 13+

Evita (1996)
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
63
7.7
/18862/
69
/199/
67
/41/
3.6
/16282/

Mahaan (2022)
A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a billionaire, does life give him a second chance to be a father?
poster
68
62
6.8
/5082/
66
/124/
60
/90/
3.4
/5145/
83
/12/
68
/68/

Cleopatra (1934)
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
poster
Kanopy
67
60
7.1
/7430/
69
/113/
69
/109/
3.4
/3140/
56
/9/
76
/255/
64
/8/

Lady Jane (1986)
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
poster
59
6.5
/17407/
71
/537/
62
/204/
3.2
/11970/
44
/16/
63
/439/
54
/10/

Johnny Dangerously (1984)
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
poster
Netflix
53
6.2
/111449/
61
/1013/
60
/160/
2.4
/47280/
26
/27/
81
/89/
33
/4/
cc age 16+

Animal (2023)
The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.
poster
53
6.4
/61766/
70
/5116/
62
/1358/
2.8
/27110/
35
/237/
42
/457/
49
/43/
cc age 17+

Live by Night (2016)
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
poster
51
5.6
/23858/
65
/2441/
61
/712/
2.5
/23180/
24
/232/
69
/634/
35
/42/
cc age 16+

The Kitchen (2019)
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.
poster
Netflix
74
51
7.5
/3258/
72
/151/
74
/82/
3.7
/2423/
77
/6/

Hitler: A Career (1977)
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
48
6.0
/6817/
60
/222/
56
/147/
2.5
/6569/
38
/236/

Animal Farm (1999)
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
47
7.1
/1827/
67
/25/
71
/48/
3.7
/3035/

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
44
7.4
/3514/
67
/38/
66
/24/
3.3
/687/
77
/78/

Warm Springs (2005)
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
poster
Kanopy
44
5.6
/28105/
58
/580/
56
/515/
2.7
/16790/
15
/54/
26
/266/
27
/27/

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
poster
70
40
6.8
/1576/
70
/16/
60
/14/
3.1
/526/
88
/8/
61
/19/
82
/4/
cc age 12+

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
39
5.7
/1845/
57
/42/
54
/38/
3.1
/1333/
75
/12/
36
/29/

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
poster
Hoopla
57
22
6.3
/832/
59
/17/
55
/19/
3.3
/493/
57
/7/
48
/4/

The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
poster
54
17
5.3
/1596/
50
/24/
55
/15/
3.0
/423/

Ajooba (1991)
This is a story of Ajooba, the masked legend, who was treated as the only protector of the people of Baharistan. Ajooba is none other than Ali, the real heir to the kingdom of Baharistan. Unfortunately for Ali, when he was just born, his father and mother were overthrown by the evil designs of the Vazir. Ali survived as destined and was brought up by a blacksmith who was unaware of Ali's real identity. In the guise of Ajooba, Ali takes up the very difficult task of finding his lost parents and then to re-instate them to the throne with great honour.
poster
Kanopy
42
16
5.3
/1548/
56
/15/
48
/15/
2.9
/687/
12
/17/
30
/15/

The Oscar (1966)
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.


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