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87
8.4
/438352/
82
/6331/
80
/3939/
4.3
/179798/
92
/162/
96
/11154/
89
/39/
cc age 17+

The Lives of Others (2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
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Kanopy
82
8.0
/9543/
79
/320/
76
/157/
3.9
/6748/
100
/70/
89
/140/
84
/21/
cc age 16+

The Square (2013)
The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
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Starz
81
7.6
/613634/
76
/21527/
73
/9273/
3.8
/479924/
89
/260/
80
/16816/
80
/37/
cc age 15+

Minority Report (2002)
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
poster
78
7.6
/203800/
75
/3640/
74
/2274/
3.7
/76322/
87
/183/
89
/15312/
74
/36/
cc age 17+

The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
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Kanopy
78
6.5
/6862/
64
/235/
65
/156/
3.8
/15819/
95
/40/
66
/52/
93
/13/

Hard to Be a God (2014)
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.
poster
77
7.1
/46263/
69
/940/
68
/816/
3.5
/29349/
100
/39/
81
/1216/
77
/11/

Sleeper (1973)
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Kanopy
76
7.2
/9981/
72
/309/
71
/246/
3.6
/10975/
88
/72/
77
/293/
76
/27/
cc age 16+

Chico & Rita (2010)
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
poster
74
IMDb 81
6.8
/75361/
68
/4990/
69
/888/
3.5
/611071/
88
/287/
84
/934/
71
/34/
cc age 16+

The Long Walk (2025)
In a dystopian, alternate-America ruled by a totalitarian regime, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
7.3
/5252/
68
/86/
69
/102/
3.7
/5330/
83
/18/
84
/68/

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
poster
72
7.3
/1476/
64
/30/
57
/17/
3.5
/714/
80
/85/
77
/210/
69
/24/

Chicago 10 (2008)
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/86210/
69
/2640/
68
/1570/
3.4
/70557/
75
/32/
71
/2109/
67
/8/
cc age 16+

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.
poster
68
6.5
/65233/
68
/2352/
62
/1044/
3.2
/51551/
83
/53/
69
/2530/
58
/13/
cc age 12+

Flash Gordon (1980)
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
poster
Kanopy
67
6.6
/7704/
68
/351/
68
/318/
3.4
/16420/
63
/51/
71
/28/
62
/14/

The Young Karl Marx (2017)
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
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70
64
7.0
/6448/
67
/146/
64
/112/
3.7
/14560/
70
/10/
80
/280/

Desperate Living (1977)
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
poster
Crunchyroll
64
5.9
/13689/
62
/556/
59
/345/
3.4
/23697/
80
/10/
61
/678/

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
poster
64
6.4
/29313/
64
/742/
64
/531/
3.2
/26335/
62
/37/
57
/631/
64
/13/

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
63
6.4
/18045/
68
/2012/
73
/817/
2.5
/39244/
cc age 15+

Injustice (2021)
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
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Kanopy
79
63
7.7
/20720/
76
/332/
71
/261/
3.5
/13857/
95
/20/
85
/1/

Law of Tehran (2019)
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
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62
7.0
/3247/
68
/67/
66
/44/
3.5
/2180/
44
/9/
85
/157/

Closet Land (1991)
A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.
poster
Netflix
62
6.8
/142653/
72
/13391/
71
/6300/
3.1
/207592/
62
/37/
67
/402/
47
/12/
cc age 17+

What Happened to Monday (2017)
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
poster
76
62
7.3
/3137/
74
/79/
69
/91/
3.9
/10570/
88
/394/

The Third Part of the Night (1972)
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.
poster
fuboTV
61
6.6
/185006/
69
/5977/
65
/2644/
3.2
/147547/
59
/124/
61
/3068/
45
/12/
cc age 16+

The Running Man (1987)
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
poster
Netflix
66
58
6.7
/4096/
69
/343/
68
/85/
3.5
/6778/
67
/6/
59
/12/

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.
poster
78
58
8.1
/5309/
76
/34/
69
/64/
4.1
/5343/
71
/14/
90
/16/

Repentance (1987)
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
poster
MGM Plus
57
5.9
/2376/
62
/45/
57
/34/
3.1
/1657/
67
/21/
42
/16/

Wild in the Streets (1968)
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.
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Kanopy
61
57
6.0
/5117/
60
/170/
55
/105/
3.3
/7650/
79
/43/
48
/128/
66
/11/

Afterschool (2009)
A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
54
7.1
/2323/
70
/119/
69
/67/
3.5
/2853/
62
/13/

Leave No Traces (2021)
In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
poster
50
6.0
/60112/
62
/4313/
56
/1213/
2.7
/19152/
42
/79/
40
/438/
54
/19/
cc age 14+

Captive State (2019)
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
poster
Kanopy
74
50
7.4
/2041/
68
/51/
69
/28/
3.8
/1759/
85
/35/

In the Year of the Pig (1969)
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
6.4
/79097/
66
/3296/
62
/1741/
2.9
/23053/
30
/84/
42
/444/
41
/25/
cc age 17+

Child 44 (2015)
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
49
5.5
/7156/
59
/394/
60
/278/
2.8
/7032/
33
/6/
39
/794/
cc age 5+

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)
Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.
poster
79
48
7.9
/2087/
77
/26/
80
/26/
4.0
/3543/

The Wife of an Important Man (1988)
When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
poster
65
44
7.0
/1946/
58
/19/
57
/27/
3.6
/1786/
72
/10/

Journey to the Sun (1999)
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.
poster
62
44
6.9
/4892/
61
/40/
58
/23/
3.1
/2322/

Tambourine (2008)
Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to repair her father's car with which she has had an accident the day before. Each of the house's residents have their own fish to fry and they also want their satellites installed as soon as possible.
poster
61
43
6.3
/7558/
61
/57/
53
/50/
3.0
/3201/
65
/15/
66
/6/

Rhino Season (2012)
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
poster
74
42
7.2
/2368/
75
/76/
68
/44/
3.6
/4288/
85
/3/

Scenes from the Suburbs (2011)
A resident of a suburban dystopia tries to reassemble his fragmented memories of life as a teen.
poster
77
40
7.3
/854/
75
/9/
65
/14/
3.5
/239/
100
/19/
84
/90/

Ghosts (2006)
When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese people in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night.
poster
77
39
7.9
/1538/
73
/22/
78
/20/
3.9
/1935/

We Are the Bus People (1979)
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.
poster
67
38
6.7
/1314/
64
/29/
67
/34/
3.5
/788/
71
/7/

It Happened Here (1966)
World War II, 1940. When the Nazi hordes invade and occupy Great Britain, the English citizens are soon divided between those who choose to submissively collaborate and those who are willing to fight.
poster
62
38
6.3
/1726/
65
/37/
59
/161/
3.3
/974/
65
/19/
59
/5/

But Forever in My Mind (1999)
Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.
poster
Kanopy
64
37
5.8
/948/
56
/19/
53
/25/
3.5
/2478/
86
/7/
62
/5/

Kamikaze '89 (1982)
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and finds out more than he bargained for.
poster
55
30
5.7
/1344/
57
/32/
55
/30/
3.2
/971/
42
/1916/

Parasite Eve (1997)
A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.
poster
69
29
6.9
/1309/
65
/30/
64
/26/
3.6
/1150/
75
/8/

Address Unknown (1944)
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
27
4.5
/2352/
55
/173/
51
/79/
2.8
/459/
19
/22/

Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, to a changed world. Germany won World War II and the United States is now about to mark 50 years as a Nazi conquest.
poster
61
26
6.2
/1047/
64
/19/
56
/18/
3.2
/448/
62
/218/

Never Let Me Go (1953)
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
poster
68
24
6.8
/1566/
72
/43/
59
/26/
3.3
/527/
78
/7/

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious experiences are cause for serious concern. Yet the children stand by their story, and the message of peace and hope the Lady brings. In the last vision, attended by thousands of people, the Lady proves her reality with a spectacular miracle that is seen by everyone present. Based on actual events at Fatima in the summer of 1917.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
35
24
2.9
/2507/
51
/252/
37
/78/
2.1
/908/
16
/12/

The Perfect Weapon (2016)
In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
40
20
4.5
/932/
44
/42/
41
/28/
2.6
/1232/
16
/77/

Crime Zone (1988)
In a post-nuclear future, crime has been eliminated in the city of Soleil through a strict class structure imposed upon the population. Two illegal young lovers are enticed into becoming criminals by a shady guy who promises them a way out of the city so they can continue their lives in peace.


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