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Kanopy
92
8.6
/398636/
84
/5714/
84
/4089/
4.6
/399556/
100
/103/
97
/6724/
98
/7/
cc age 13+

Seven Samurai (1954)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.6
/863015/
85
/13825/
84
/7961/
4.6
/1018323/
91
/162/
97
/15605/
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
8.1
/74637/
78
/1195/
78
/856/
4.5
/115908/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
Peacock Premium
89
IMDb 43
9.3
/3150900/
91
/52419/
87
/29621/
4.6
/2500778/
89
/146/
98
/53483/
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
88
8.8
/883051/
85
/13648/
84
/9366/
4.5
/671828/
97
/76/
97
/11688/
90
/7/
cc age 15+

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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YouTube TV
88
8.1
/87840/
78
/1614/
78
/1247/
4.3
/87928/
95
/56/
92
/1200/
94
/10/

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3568/
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.
poster
86
7.8
/106886/
77
/2210/
75
/1679/
4.2
/88001/
96
/163/
89
/2110/
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
85
7.9
/82269/
77
/1600/
75
/1090/
4.1
/73480/
95
/64/
92
/1748/
83
/16/
cc age 14+

Being There (1979)
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
poster
85
7.5
/75212/
76
/3609/
74
/1507/
4.1
/321118/
97
/350/
87
/477/
89
/47/
cc age 11+

The Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
poster
85
8.3
/229468/
81
/2480/
80
/1282/
4.0
/93450/
93
/14/
96
/2312/
cc age 13+

Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
poster
84
8.0
/50047/
84
/1211/
81
/1011/
4.3
/201103/
94
/50/
95
/763/
80
/25/

Central Station (1998)
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
poster
85
84
8.2
/23463/
80
/429/
80
/520/
4.2
/52503/
91
/43/
95
/281/

The Young and the Damned (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
poster
83
7.5
/66683/
74
/2418/
73
/1868/
4.0
/160674/
96
/306/
91
/78/
87
/43/
cc age 17+

Pain and Glory (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
poster
83
7.9
/10995/
76
/135/
72
/116/
3.9
/9830/
93
/29/
93
/218/
79
/18/

Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Young Krishna is abandoned at the Apollo Circus by his mother, who informs him that he can only return home when he can afford ₹500 for his brother's bicycle that he destroyed. The circus leaves Krishna behind and he travels to Bombay, where he delivers tee and befriends a heroin addict and a young prostitute. Krishna dreams of saving ₹500 to return home, but Bombay street life isn't easy.
poster
fuboTV
83
7.8
/151620/
79
/7717/
76
/2229/
4.1
/353676/
97
/208/
91
/1197/
81
/30/
cc age 12+

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
poster
82
7.7
/35771/
74
/889/
74
/643/
4.1
/63901/
95
/57/
86
/615/
88
/17/

The Innocents (1961)
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
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.
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Kanopy
81
7.3
/10928/
72
/197/
70
/210/
3.8
/20390/
100
/18/
82
/299/
81
/19/

The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
A young Vietnamese peasant girl named Mùi becomes the servant of a house in pre-unification Saigon.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.7
/103232/
78
/2928/
77
/1916/
3.9
/133088/
73
/126/
94
/7800/
78
/7/
cc age 14+

The Color Purple (1985)
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
poster
81
7.7
/11918/
75
/121/
73
/111/
3.7
/2831/
92
/26/
92
/121/

Character (1997)
In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.
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Kanopy
81
7.5
/12094/
71
/320/
72
/261/
3.8
/12103/
94
/110/
83
/187/
82
/21/

Blancanieves (2012)
A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
poster
Netflix
81
8.0
/264669/
81
/14370/
80
/6846/
3.9
/356709/
84
/268/
91
/1551/
69
/45/
cc age 13+

Lion (2016)
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.5
/40852/
74
/797/
77
/1147/
4.0
/38226/
92
/26/
83
/726/
77
/5/

Duck, You Sucker (1971)
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.5
/15065/
73
/342/
72
/383/
4.1
/44079/
94
/33/
87
/127/

La Cérémonie (1995)
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
poster
YouTube TV
80
79
7.6
/13040/
79
/346/
73
/191/
3.8
/12215/
96
/27/
90
/209/
76
/12/

After the Thin Man (1936)
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10515/
76
/307/
73
/241/
3.8
/22975/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
poster
Crunchyroll
79
7.6
/29435/
79
/2324/
79
/1558/
3.9
/69643/
90
/67/
88
/141/
65
/15/
8.2
/237847/
cc age 11+

The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
poster
79
7.3
/120402/
73
/2792/
73
/1726/
3.7
/145570/
92
/239/
76
/21/
78
/36/
cc age 17+

Precious (2009)
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.
poster
78
7.6
/106972/
76
/2138/
74
/1484/
3.7
/34076/
82
/113/
87
/1689/
74
/30/
cc age 16+

The Hurricane (1999)
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
poster
78
7.2
/11280/
72
/217/
69
/215/
3.7
/7697/
94
/17/
81
/153/

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
poster
Kanopy
80
78
7.5
/14302/
76
/318/
71
/206/
4.0
/16672/
89
/9/
91
/580/
78
/11/

Scum (1979)
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
8.0
/51614/
77
/1179/
77
/616/
4.1
/55425/
81
/78/
92
/2338/
67
/13/
cc age 10+

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
poster
78
7.5
/234818/
75
/4848/
71
/2333/
3.6
/106311/
86
/183/
87
/13171/
71
/36/
cc age 16+

Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
poster
77
7.4
/186/
50
/4/
57
/7/
100
/5/
94
/19/

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)
Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
7.4
/1041/
68
/18/
59
/16/
3.5
/441/
94
/70/
88
/62/
82
/29/

The Agronomist (2004)
Documentary on Jean Dominique, Haitian radio personality and human rights activist.
poster
77
7.7
/15756/
70
/184/
68
/120/
3.7
/5223/
90
/94/
90
/1783/
77
/25/

Water (2005)
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.
poster
Hoopla
76
7.0
/5697/
70
/114/
66
/109/
3.5
/1802/
93
/14/
75
/58/
cc age 14+

Will Penny (1967)
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
poster
76
7.1
/3992/
72
/74/
66
/47/
3.5
/1987/
84
/38/
86
/81/
cc age 14+

Let Him Have It (1991)
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
poster
Pluto TV
76
7.3
/17937/
72
/599/
68
/276/
3.9
/21554/
92
/117/
76
/422/
74
/30/

Into the Abyss (2011)
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
6.7
/7161/
68
/464/
68
/193/
3.3
/5184/
86
/69/
78
/25/
71
/16/
cc age 15+

The Survivor (2022)
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.
poster
75
7.6
/36898/
73
/488/
72
/175/
3.6
/25692/
83
/6/
75
/352/
cc age 10+

Wake Up Sid (2009)
Wake Up Sid! is the story of a lazy Mumbai college student who does absolutely nothing, with a turn of events will Sid realize his potential in this world and become a success in the fast-paced life of Mumbai.
poster
82
75
8.0
/8973/
75
/140/
75
/104/
4.0
/4242/
94
/18/
91
/133/
cc age 10+

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
poster
75
7.0
/15552/
69
/299/
67
/391/
3.5
/5873/
83
/88/
79
/719/
82
/25/
cc age 17+

Days of Glory (2006)
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
poster
Netflix
75
7.4
/129081/
75
/3978/
72
/1489/
3.8
/144135/
82
/83/
84
/10751/
69
/21/
cc age 10+

A League of Their Own (1992)
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
poster
75
7.7
/158489/
78
/4559/
76
/1953/
3.8
/83705/
74
/142/
88
/8319/
61
/33/
cc age 12+

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
74
7.0
/7046/
72
/415/
69
/283/
3.3
/9202/
100
/19/
92
/28/

Delicious (2021)
France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.4
/786/
65
/14/
70
/12/
3.5
/295/
90
/41/
77
/14/
72
/10/

Siddharth (2013)
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.


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