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87
8.0
/104627/
79
/2457/
78
/2080/
4.2
/213062/
96
/163/
92
/7559/
90
/31/
cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
poster
87
8.4
/440243/
82
/6482/
80
/3986/
4.3
/186686/
92
/162/
96
/11153/
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.
poster
Kanopy
86
7.9
/38491/
76
/677/
76
/740/
4.2
/70005/
98
/59/
90
/659/
100
/11/

The Conformist (1971)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
poster
82
7.7
/16894/
77
/243/
73
/199/
3.8
/6232/
96
/25/
92
/329/
cc age 12+

Kolya (1996)
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/8304/
72
/120/
69
/157/
3.8
/7550/
100
/10/
85
/86/

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.7
/114623/
77
/5171/
77
/3604/
4.0
/495195/
95
/21/
87
/8412/
83
/11/
7.9
/176374/
cc age 10+

Porco Rosso (1992)
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
poster
81
7.4
/27035/
73
/565/
72
/458/
3.8
/37440/
93
/132/
80
/421/
81
/36/

No (2012)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
poster
MGM Plus
80
7.5
/22019/
71
/479/
70
/388/
3.7
/41061/
90
/49/
84
/804/

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.8
/111236/
78
/4724/
78
/3267/
4.1
/470481/
88
/182/
85
/912/
83
/41/
8.1
/216651/
cc age 10+

The Wind Rises (2013)
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
poster
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
MUBI
79
7.3
/125026/
72
/6151/
70
/2072/
3.8
/270046/
94
/254/
79
/721/
88
/43/
cc age 15+

The Death of Stalin (2017)
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.2
/16970/
69
/355/
71
/347/
3.8
/20666/
94
/83/
76
/159/
86
/22/

Barbara (2012)
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
poster
77
7.6
/1756/
72
/35/
70
/36/
3.9
/1430/
100
/6/
72
/14/

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.
poster
Hoopla
77
7.6
/29655/
75
/514/
71
/446/
3.6
/10101/
87
/94/
88
/929/
76
/30/

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
7.3
/223378/
74
/12440/
69
/2829/
3.8
/2518892/
88
/407/
95
/15134/
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
Amazon Prime Video
77
7.9
/37220/
81
/1664/
80
/1108/
4.2
/102448/
97
/30/
83
/90/
69
/7/

A Taxi Driver (2017)
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
poster
77
8.1
/1237947/
81
/35073/
78
/15273/
3.9
/880735/
73
/254/
90
/58000/
62
/39/
cc age 18+

V for Vendetta (2006)
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.2
/7274/
70
/144/
67
/109/
3.8
/7821/
90
/49/
89
/181/
72
/21/

Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
poster
Peacock Premium
75
7.7
/655895/
78
/38917/
77
/20035/
3.7
/1800117/
76
/289/
85
/18964/
65
/42/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.2
/28747/
71
/542/
70
/542/
3.7
/17363/
84
/50/
81
/265/
72
/19/

Death and the Maiden (1994)
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
poster
Hoopla
71
7.2
/2602/
71
/36/
70
/39/
3.3
/1960/
80
/10/
80
/94/

Romero (1989)
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/87022/
69
/2683/
67
/1592/
3.4
/74923/
75
/32/
71
/2111/
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
Plex
70
6.9
/4763/
66
/259/
65
/137/
3.2
/6408/
70
/47/

1984 (1956)
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.7
/1524/
64
/41/
65
/51/
3.5
/1783/
100
/19/
54
/4/
74
/11/

As I Open My Eyes (2015)
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't have the same idea. She sings in a political rock band, has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the wishes of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers all too well.
poster
Netflix
72
69
7.6
/25402/
72
/302/
67
/104/
3.6
/7487/
67
/15/
78
/61/

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
Byomkesh, fresh out of college, agrees to investigate the disappearance of Bhuvan, a chemist. Assisted by Bhuvan's son Ajit, Byomkesh links the case to a larger conspiracy that will unsettle Calcutta.
poster
Disney Plus
75
68
7.2
/4696/
71
/133/
67
/68/
3.4
/7438/
100
/7/
77
/148/
cc age 9+

The Color of Friendship (2000)
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
6.7
/218565/
70
/19975/
64
/6507/
3.3
/264944/
79
/365/
64
/1849/
63
/50/
cc age 17+

Atomic Blonde (2017)
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
poster
68
7.4
/5349/
69
/45/
63
/68/
3.4
/1294/
65
/31/
88
/60/
61
/27/

East/West (1999)
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
poster
68
6.5
/65595/
68
/2407/
62
/1062/
3.2
/54448/
83
/53/
69
/2534/
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
The Roku Channel
67
7.2
/6133/
68
/85/
69
/76/
3.4
/3108/
69
/16/
78
/115/
57
/10/

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
7.3
/77192/
75
/3024/
70
/1444/
3.5
/27711/
53
/134/
66
/1943/
60
/31/
cc age 18+

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
poster
77
66
7.8
/2588/
80
/251/
73
/57/
3.9
/10245/

Waves (2024)
At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.
poster
Hoopla
65
6.8
/64991/
69
/2180/
65
/1015/
3.3
/42355/
58
/36/
67
/1920/
53
/9/
cc age 13+

Logan's Run (1976)
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
poster
Netflix
64
6.7
/112905/
68
/4051/
65
/1954/
3.3
/76246/
72
/58/
66
/2053/
59
/18/
cc age 13+

The Living Daylights (1987)
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
poster
81
64
7.8
/2562/
75
/63/
72
/42/
3.7
/917/
97
/62/
91
/144/
82
/13/

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)
Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.
poster
64
6.4
/29418/
64
/755/
63
/535/
3.2
/27199/
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.
poster
Fandor
63
6.3
/1855/
62
/58/
56
/45/
3.3
/3012/
56
/11/

Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
6.8
/4775/
64
/67/
63
/80/
3.2
/964/
56
/61/
66
/84/
51
/22/

An American Rhapsody (2001)
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.
poster
71
62
6.8
/7515/
70
/165/
67
/118/
3.4
/5529/
81
/49/

Sonnenallee (1999)
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
62
7.7
/3696/
73
/67/
72
/67/
3.9
/6156/
100
/5/
85
/16/

The Ear (1990)
Upon returning home from an official party, a Czech government official and his wife discover it bugged and surveilled by mysterious figures, driving them to paranoia and intensifying their discontents with one another.
poster
60
6.0
/533/
61
/8/
72
/3/
3.2
/265/
56
/31/

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981)
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
poster
Plex
70
60
7.1
/3831/
69
/64/
65
/75/
3.5
/2658/
67
/15/
79
/89/

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
59
7.0
/1003/
64
/30/
70
/28/
3.9
/6221/
100
/6/
100

Sambizanga (1973)
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.
poster
59
6.1
/1779/
55
/20/
59
/28/
3.2
/513/
67
/6/
59
/13/

To Kill a Priest (1988)
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
poster
Kanopy
68
57
6.3
/3093/
64
/63/
59
/79/
3.2
/3663/
100
/8/
58
/50/

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
poster
73
57
6.9
/4713/
70
/65/
68
/37/
3.3
/775/
92
/12/
76
/59/

Children of Glory (2006)
During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team, is torn between his love for a revolutionary student and his training for the Melbourne Olympics.
poster
Kanopy
57
6.5
/10142/
65
/168/
61
/117/
3.1
/1142/
25
/80/
64
/434/
47
/23/

The Lost City (2005)
In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
6.8
/21730/
68
/571/
64
/427/
3.3
/7563/
41
/29/
61
/118/
30
/8/

Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.


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