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7.8
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76
/737/
75
/606/
4.1
/52664/
91
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93
/749/
78
/33/

Head-On (2004)
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
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The Roku Channel
77
7.4
/14928/
77
/537/
72
/248/
4.0
/73460/
88
/90/
88
/679/
65
/28/
cc age 15+

Saving Face (2004)
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.2
/17001/
69
/397/
71
/260/
3.5
/7486/
86
/104/
79
/596/
64
/30/
cc age 14+

A Better Life (2011)
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
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72
6.9
/2024/
70
/40/
66
/29/
3.4
/360/
83
/65/
74
/73/
78
/27/

Up and Down (2004)
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are responsible for running an illegal baby adoption center. Lubos and Eman make attempts to sell the baby to Miluska and Frantisek, a barren couple.
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Kanopy
71
7.3
/8469/
73
/306/
70
/170/
3.6
/11753/
81
/109/
71
/21/
72
/25/
cc age 18+

The Painted Bird (2019)
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
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Hoopla
70
6.6
/1219/
62
/14/
64
/24/
3.3
/524/
82
/11/
79
/46/

Picture Bride (1995)
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.
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70
6.9
/1959/
66
/94/
70
/74/
3.2
/3988/
75
/16/
83
/23/
63
/9/

Seoul Searching (2015)
In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
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Hoopla
68
6.7
/3251/
70
/68/
61
/57/
3.3
/939/
64
/11/
73
/38/

Come See the Paradise (1990)
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
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Kanopy
66
7.9
/12458/
79
/710/
74
/203/
3.0
/4067/
17
/6/
92
/445/
cc age 15+

The Red Pill (2016)
When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Chronicling Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege.
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64
6.5
/5812/
66
/315/
67
/167/
3.2
/3244/
39
/57/
90
/16/
51
/15/
cc age 13+

The Song of Names (2019)
A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
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Kanopy
63
7.0
/7049/
66
/73/
65
/78/
3.4
/1041/
49
/87/
76
/154/
49
/31/

Harrison's Flowers (2000)
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
72
61
7.0
/4095/
69
/87/
64
/44/
3.4
/1625/
83
/6/
81
/139/
cc age 16+

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.
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60
7.2
/3288/
72
/25/
64
/28/
3.7
/1457/
100
/24/
77
/47/
72
/9/

Half Moon (2006)
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus, denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho, which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking, as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public, let alone in the company of men. But Mamo is determined to carry through, if not for the gullible antics of the bus driver.
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Kanopy
60
6.1
/3242/
57
/103/
60
/127/
3.2
/2227/
52
/31/
41
/14/
58
/16/

Jimmy P. (2013)
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
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Netflix
58
6.1
/11376/
61
/651/
57
/243/
2.9
/11962/
68
/133/
57
/9/
59
/33/
cc age 16+

The Forgiven (2022)
Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
5.9
/14318/
63
/1450/
61
/588/
2.9
/10391/
45
/84/
cc age 17+

Freaks of Nature (2015)
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
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Kanopy
63
56
6.5
/4755/
59
/102/
62
/59/
3.4
/3234/
58
/24/
68
/114/

Head On (1998)
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.
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Kanopy
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55
6.6
/5296/
69
/90/
66
/68/
3.2
/1642/
73
/69/

Kebab Connection (2004)
In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood - compounded by his father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant - so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montegue feud between the kebab joint and a Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?
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Kanopy
54
5.4
/101207/
61
/2886/
61
/2009/
2.8
/121679/
37
/148/
44
/8057/
45
/32/
cc age 11+

Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
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Kanopy
75
45
7.3
/721/
68
/35/
69
/13/
3.4
/429/
92
/38/
77
/68/
79
/17/

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)
Filmmaker and author Kevin Rafferty takes viewers back to 1968 to witness a legendary college football game and meet the people involved, interweaving game footage with players' reflections. The names may be familiar, but their views on the game's place in the turbulent history of the 1960s college scene add an unexpected dimension.
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44
3.8
/12699/
55
/882/
48
/131/
2.6
/19705/
25
/83/
59
/41/
50
/23/
cc age 14+

The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024)
A young man, Aren, is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier.
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60
42
6.9
/3269/
67
/58/
62
/35/
3.4
/1679/
44
/9/
53
/15/

The Young Savages (1961)
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
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Kanopy
78
40
7.5
/979/
67
/19/
63
/24/
3.9
/1594/
100
/7/
85
/3/

Salt for Svanetia (1930)
An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
40
6.5
/1170/
57
/29/
57
/17/
3.5
/754/
82
/158/
82
/36/

The Vagina Monologues (2002)
This controversial work, created and performed by Eve Ensler, debuted off-off-Broadway in 1996 and soon rode a wave of national acclaim. Now, the intimacy of Ensler's original show has been lovingly brought to the screen. Capturing her unique performance, the film also follows Ensler as she explores the creative impetus behind the monologues and conducts a series of new interviews as inspiring as those that brought about the original work
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68
27
6.3
/900/
60
/18/
55
/20/
3.4
/625/
83
/6/
80
/1/

Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2018)
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
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57
22
5.7
/693/
69
/45/
55
/18/
3.2
/477/
50
/14/
49
/11/

Australia Day (2017)
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.
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62
18
6.4
/794/
59
/16/
62
/22/
3.2
/682/
62
/5/

The House I Live In (1945)
Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
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18
7.7
/582/
55
/12/
73
/20/
3.6
/326/

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea (1987)
A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea.
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73
17
7.7
/420/
75
/17/
68
/14/
3.6
/645/

Don't Be a Sucker! (1943)
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
poster
64
14
6.7
/891/
66
/23/
60
/14/
3.3
/253/

Kanak Attack (2000)
The three friends Ertan, Kemal and Mehdi live in Kiel. They are foreigners, "Kanaks", as they proudly call themselves. For them, this term is an expression of their attitude to life. The trio keeps their heads above water with small-time crooks, but over time they are drawn deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of violence and crime. On a whim, Erkan acts as the protector of two prostitutes and makes enemies of two unscrupulous pimps. After a failed robbery, Ertan ends up in prison for a short time and Kemal is deported to Turkey. However, the two proud "Kanaks" don't let this get them down, on the contrary: together, the friends now want to build a drug air bridge between Istanbul and Germany. But the dream of quick money ends in death and grief for Kemal and Ertan.
poster
44
8
6.3
/268/
43
/3/
46
/6/
20
/62/

Run, Simon, Run (1970)
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
poster
?
5.0
/16/
10
/1/

Sayariy (1995)
Set in the remote Andes of Bolivia, “Sayariy” records a mysterious annual tradition in which two mountain tribes face off in a bloody ceremonial fight known as Tinku.
poster
?
6.9
/13/

500 Dunam on the Moon (2002)
Ayn Hawd is a Palestinian village that was captured and depopulated by Israeli forces in the 1948 war. In 1953 Marcel Janco, a Romanian painter and a founder of the Dada movement, helped transform the village into a Jewish artists' colony, and renamed it Ein Hod. This documentary tells the story of the village's original inhabitants, who, after expulsion, settled only 1.5 kilometers away in the outlying hills. This new Ayn Hawd cannot be found on official maps, as Israeli law doesn't recognize it, and its residents, deemed "present absentees" by the authorities, do not receive basic services such as water, electricity or an access road. Rachel Leah Jones' filmmaking debut is a critical look at the art of dispossession and the creativity of the dispossessed.
poster
?
4.5
/64/
50
/5/

On the Old Roman Road (2001)
In Holland, a group of Armenian terrorists have swung into action, murdering a Turkish intelligence agent and holding his son for ransom. As the battle of wits between the terrorists and the Dutch police plays itself out, an author from Armenia living in Rotterdam finds himself following the events as he thinks back on his life in his homeland, indulging in fantasies about his past, his future, and his obsessions.
poster
?
6.3
/12/
20
/1/

Černý slzy (2003)
Young, inexperienced heroes, the Roma girl Darja and the "white" boy Vítek, nicknamed Ken by his friends, fall in love at a drunken dance with the intensity of their first adolescent love, unaware of the world they live in and how a mere name or skin color can arouse hatred and a desire for revenge in others.
poster
?
5.8
/8/
10
/1/
10

Philippines, My Philippines (1989)
Philippines my Philippines (1989) is a feature length documentary about the situation in the Philippines two years after the notionally democratic Cory Aquino replaced the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the ‘People Power’ revolution of 1986. Touching on the influence and interests of the United States and Australia, it examines the social context and dimensions of the violent conflict between government and big business on one hand and the rural and urban poor (led by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People Army) on the other.
poster
?
50
/1/
10
/2/

Lionhood (2018)
A portrait of two teenaged hockey players which explores the intensity of adolescence - a time of unrestrained physicality and surging hormones, resulting in unchecked impulses and unseen emotions.
poster
63
?
7.4
/122/
55
/4/
60
/1/

Trading Germans (2014)
A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
poster
64
?
7.0
/167/
45
/2/
77
/2/

Basket Case (2009)
An inward little town in Finland transforms into a melting pot of nationalities, religions and cultures when Finnish Basketball Federation opens the borders for foreign players. The Board of a local team puts all their eggs in the new season trebling their budget. Unknowingly it hires an uneasy twosome as the new manager and new coach for the team. The airlift from America, Europe and even Africa hauls in player after player when the coach burns the money that never realizes. The tragicomic efforts of the manager to gather the unrealistic budget and even to find a washing-machine for the players evolve into an anatomy of inflamed working environment. The manager's power-struggle with the coach has a bitter end where there's only space for one of them in the town. The player-candidates come with high hopes and end up being the pawns in the game. Their life among the locals create absurd encounters that originate from all walks of life.
poster
?
10
/1/

Seoul to Soul (2006)
A short film that recounts the turbulent journey of Wade, a gay Asian man, from his devout, Mormon upbringing in Utah to his drug-fueled, fast-lane adult life in San Diego--a course fraught with pitfalls as he navigates a maze of addictions while searching for identity and self-acceptance. Told with disarming candor and insight, Wade's compelling story offers a universal message of hope that resonates with audiences of all ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientations, and illuminates one of the many complex facets of the Asian-American experience.
poster
Kanopy
62
?
6.3
/354/
68
/12/
65
/4/
53
/6/

Men at Lunch (2013)
This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen taking their lunch while perched on a girder high above New York City.
poster
?
6.3
/99/
15
/2/

Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)
Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift depending on the loyalties of those viewing them. To some, they are heroes fighting to rebuild war-torn Iraq; to others, they are terrorists to be feared and loathed. What is the truth, and where do the answers lie? This provocative study earned Best Documentary honors at numerous film festivals.
poster
58
?
6.8
/297/
45
/5/
62
/15/

Ivan & Abraham (1993)
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
poster
?
7.6
/58/
60
/1/

The Englishman (2007)
Henry opens his life to a woman and a damaged boy. As they move closer the past pulls them apart.
poster
68
?
5.6
/187/
80
/1/

Dol: The Valley of Tambourines (2007)
On his wedding day, a Kurdish man must flee through Turkish, then Iraqi and eventually Iranian Kurdistan.
poster
?
9.3
/21/
10
/1/

Delivered Vacant (1992)
This award-winning documentary chronicles 8 years of housing wars in Hoboken, NJ, a mile-square city across the river from Manhattan. It features a real life cast of long time residents, newly arrived yuppies, tenant organizers, real estate developers, immigrants from around the world and the wackiest mayor in America.
poster
Kanopy
79
?
7.7
/116/
81
/6/
80
/4/

The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abroad and those already in the country. Go far beyond the legislation with the survival and growth of Chinese American communities in the face of prejudice and outright violence, the “paper” sons and daughters who emigrated despite the seemingly impassable barriers, and the legal challenges that produced some of the most momentous decisions in Supreme Court history.
poster
?
6.5
/14/
10
/1/

Tibetan Recollections (1995)
A personal audio-visual notebook from Tibet (1988-95). The everyday things, the breathtaking light, the enjoyment of the common, the second look, the love for the detail, memories.


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