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83
8.0
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76
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75
/2452/
3.7
/77232/
89
/112/
92
/2460/
79
/16/
cc age 12+

Gandhi (1982)
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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HBO Max
81
7.4
/206237/
74
/7643/
71
/4163/
3.7
/249805/
87
/123/
86
/8466/
82
/21/
cc age 9+

Superman (1978)
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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78
7.7
/27875/
78
/897/
77
/739/
3.9
/31270/
77
/140/
87
/74/
68
/28/
cc age 17+

Never Look Away (2018)
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
poster
78
7.5
/22041/
75
/583/
72
/275/
3.7
/14783/
84
/63/
86
/891/
84
/7/
cc age 14+

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
poster
76
7.2
/7441/
70
/136/
66
/89/
3.7
/3653/
86
/28/
78
/115/
68
/22/
cc age 13+

Avalon (1990)
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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84
76
7.8
/6892/
77
/133/
75
/146/
4.2
/15947/
100
/13/
90
/77/

A City of Sadness (1989)
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
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Kanopy
76
7.2
/10008/
72
/316/
71
/248/
3.6
/11282/
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
6.9
/3833/
70
/67/
64
/50/
3.3
/1122/
86
/63/
79
/152/
62
/16/
cc age 15+

Skin (2009)
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
poster
73
6.8
/27238/
69
/861/
64
/441/
3.7
/42880/
92
/123/
71
/379/
78
/21/
cc age 15+

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
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Kanopy
73
7.3
/234360/
70
/3653/
70
/4041/
3.6
/175884/
67
/213/
71
/10005/
69
/38/
cc age 17+

Revolutionary Road (2008)
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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Disney Plus
72
6.7
/78155/
68
/3194/
65
/1400/
3.4
/188592/
91
/75/
66
/5300/
78
/36/
cc age 7+

James and the Giant Peach (1996)
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
poster
The Roku Channel
71
6.8
/11453/
68
/336/
62
/276/
3.5
/15231/
92
/154/
69
/51/
82
/28/
cc age 17+

Neruda (2016)
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
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Kanopy
70
6.9
/23637/
71
/615/
67
/412/
3.5
/18248/
82
/49/
68
/212/
76
/14/
cc age 10+

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
6.7
/104060/
68
/4474/
69
/2713/
3.7
/520267/
65
/336/
72
/465/
64
/56/
cc age 17+

Suspiria (2018)
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
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fuboTV
68
6.6
/4589/
67
/307/
72
/192/
3.2
/3402/
57
/51/
96
/44/
50
/14/
cc age 13+

Fatima (2020)
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
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Amazon Prime Video
70
67
6.4
/3766/
64
/289/
64
/107/
3.4
/9213/
98
/40/
68
/44/
67
/7/

LOLA (2023)
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.
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Criterion Channel
73
67
7.2
/8773/
70
/184/
70
/215/
3.9
/19006/
67
/12/
80
/43/

Stromboli (1950)
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.
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The Roku Channel
75
66
7.0
/4722/
68
/106/
65
/95/
3.7
/5940/
100
/9/
77
/34/

Caught (1949)
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
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66
6.7
/53970/
71
/3111/
66
/1237/
3.1
/45036/
64
/166/
85
/1008/
55
/31/
cc age 15+

The Good Liar (2019)
Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate stakes.
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MGM Plus
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64
6.7
/12623/
67
/248/
66
/219/
3.2
/5421/
65
/17/
68
/193/
70
/11/
cc age 10+

Exodus (1960)
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
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73
63
7.2
/4604/
73
/87/
67
/71/
3.5
/2608/
80
/5/
78
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State of the Union (1948)
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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70
61
7.1
/6308/
67
/120/
67
/134/
3.6
/7302/
73
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Kanopy
60
6.1
/3249/
57
/105/
60
/127/
3.2
/2311/
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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Kanopy
60
6.1
/16708/
61
/378/
59
/259/
3.0
/10580/
59
/32/
38
/204/
56
/17/
cc age 15+

The Two Jakes (1990)
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.
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72
59
7.2
/3485/
71
/58/
67
/44/
3.6
/2686/
86
/14/
68
/29/

Road House (1948)
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
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67
58
7.3
/15443/
73
/253/
70
/78/
3.1
/3859/
50
/12/
75
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Gold (2018)
Set in 1948, the historic story of India's first Olympic medal post their independence.
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78
58
7.6
/1481/
67
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71
/41/
3.8
/1670/
92
/71/
86
/4/

Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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57
6.0
/1256/
64
/11/
53
/17/
3.0
/288/
58
/3/

Caravans (1978)
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
62
57
6.3
/5677/
65
/232/
60
/119/
3.2
/10144/
58
/61/

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
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Kanopy
52
6.0
/44595/
59
/1060/
56
/882/
2.9
/30415/
47
/152/
34
/523/
56
/32/
cc age 17+

On the Road (2012)
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
poster
74
50
7.3
/4484/
65
/40/
65
/27/
3.6
/1822/
80
/5/
92
/11/

War Sailor (2022)
War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their families' fate during and after the Second World War.
poster
49
5.9
/12086/
65
/279/
55
/163/
2.8
/4941/
47
/38/
37
/180/
cc age 12+

The Babe (1992)
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.
poster
76
48
7.6
/2788/
75
/52/
74
/111/
3.9
/4354/
79
/9/

The Mattei Affair (1972)
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
poster
73
47
7.7
/3330/
68
/42/
66
/24/
3.5
/833/
84
/46/

Jinnah (1998)
Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.
poster
MGM Plus
60
45
6.3
/4317/
65
/115/
62
/56/
3.1
/1001/
51
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Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
poster
52
44
5.4
/3090/
56
/107/
54
/52/
2.9
/2423/
38
/8/
56
/215/

Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
poster
58
44
6.5
/2894/
68
/195/
63
/70/
3.2
/569/
46
/37/
59
/27/
44
/15/
cc age 14+

Walking with the Enemy (2014)
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.
poster
57
41
6.4
/1363/
58
/113/
57
/48/
2.7
/2105/
53
/336/

Victory Through Air Power (1943)
Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film shows de Seversky illustrating his ideas of how air power could win World War II for the Allies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
43
39
4.2
/8124/
45
/125/
43
/128/
2.5
/6131/
55
/11/
28
/290/

Bride of the Monster (1955)
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.
poster
Netflix
60
37
5.8
/1565/
59
/85/
74
/29/
2.5
/13967/
cc age 16+

Sumala (2024)
An evil spirit seeking vengeance returns to plague the town that wronged her sister. Based on a chilling urban legend.
poster
Kanopy
78
37
7.6
/1367/
72
/31/
71
/12/
3.5
/310/
100
/5/
82
/21/
cc age 13+

The Long Way Home (1997)
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
poster
48
34
4.9
/4028/
51
/77/
52
/64/
2.8
/892/
33
/57/

The Founding of a Republic (2009)
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
poster
Hoopla
64
31
6.4
/1454/
65
/107/
65
/42/
2.9
/451/
43

The Christmas Ring (2020)
A reporter searches for the love story behind an antique engagement ring. With the help of the ring’s owner’s grandson, they learn the legacy his grandparent’s left behind.
poster
57
29
6.5
/2044/
61
/29/
57
/30/
3.1
/1432/
40
/8/

Backfire (1950)
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
poster
The Roku Channel
37
29
4.0
/3716/
50
/127/
47
/116/
2.4
/1193/
17
/6/
23
/53/

Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
28
7.1
/1164/
70
/24/
70
/20/
3.5
/767/
80
/17/

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)
Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be doing well in cricket, life couldn't be better.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
26
6.6
/562/
67
/8/
62
/26/
3.3
/1295/

N.U. (1948)
This 1948 film by Antonioni documents the lives of street cleaners in Rome. N.U. is short for Nettezza urbana, the Italian municipal cleaning service.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
26
7.2
/802/
73
/71/
62
/19/
3.4
/882/

Zátopek (2021)
Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the most famous Czech athlete of all time, will help him overcome the biggest crisis of his career.


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