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92
9.0
/1570725/
88
/25579/
85
/17050/
4.5
/1273030/
98
/135/
97
/22910/
95
/30/
cc age 15+

Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.6
/1620300/
85
/32155/
82
/16824/
4.2
/1322650/
94
/148/
95
/41373/
91
/38/
cc age 16+

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.3
/120189/
82
/2976/
82
/1738/
4.6
/414511/
90
/60/
95
/931/
cc age 16+

Come and See (1985)
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
poster
MGM Plus
87
8.5
/314377/
84
/4805/
84
/4705/
4.5
/442246/
90
/84/
96
/5148/
80
/21/
cc age 14+

Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.8
/5308/
76
/99/
73
/132/
4.0
/6441/
100
/8/
85
/16/

The Confession (1970)
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.5
/64983/
73
/2051/
74
/1554/
4.0
/172444/
92
/254/
82
/174/
90
/45/
cc age 16+

Cold War (2018)
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/164187/
74
/4167/
72
/2352/
3.7
/129859/
96
/68/
84
/3924/
80
/17/
cc age 16+

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.9
/3353/
75
/158/
68
/49/
4.0
/6454/
100
/74/
75
/10/
86
/17/

Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
poster
81
7.4
/6286/
68
/59/
67
/78/
3.6
/3337/
100
/15/
86
/87/
cc age 12+

The Dresser (1983)
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
80
8.5
/8717/
82
/227/
82
/212/
4.5
/26495/
94
/897/

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
poster
80
7.4
/9917/
73
/234/
71
/204/
3.9
/14587/
92
/64/
82
/69/
76
/21/

The Dance of Reality (2013)
'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.7
/14473/
75
/535/
74
/312/
4.0
/29531/
88
/8/
88
/184/

When the Wind Blows (1986)
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.2
/8343/
69
/144/
69
/277/
3.6
/8457/
94
/16/
77
/70/

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
poster
79
7.8
/24536/
77
/485/
74
/409/
4.0
/22539/
88
/25/
87
/306/
73
/8/

One, Two, Three (1961)
In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.
poster
84
79
8.2
/9293/
84
/196/
82
/180/
4.3
/5670/
91
/11/
95
/95/
70
/7/

Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
poster
78
7.7
/27851/
78
/897/
77
/737/
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
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.7
/1761/
76
/58/
74
/28/
3.6
/1029/
82
/45/
92
/166/
77
/18/

The Rape of Europa (2007)
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property, culture and heritage were all stolen. The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
78
7.5
/18442/
74
/339/
72
/271/
3.8
/13602/
95
/22/
90
/363/
75
/12/
cc age 15+

Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
poster
78
7.5
/251684/
73
/4998/
71
/2891/
3.8
/133756/
79
/210/
83
/10574/
74
/39/
cc age 15+

Munich (2005)
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.4
/6410/
71
/189/
70
/153/
3.7
/8251/
93
/59/
81
/12/
82
/19/

Dear Comrades! (2020)
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
poster
77
7.9
/86467/
74
/1453/
75
/1238/
4.0
/58337/
82
/49/
88
/2060/
69
/14/
cc age 13+

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
poster
Kanopy
81
77
7.7
/14641/
73
/253/
74
/264/
4.1
/28715/
96
/26/
87
/151/

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
poster
77
7.6
/5926/
71
/66/
70
/99/
3.7
/1810/
88
/24/
87
/33/

The Thief (1997)
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
poster
Hoopla
77
7.6
/7840/
78
/276/
73
/144/
3.9
/16384/
93
/29/
79
/58/
71
/12/

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
poster
77
7.1
/46402/
69
/947/
68
/821/
3.5
/30246/
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.
poster
77
7.6
/211309/
73
/4969/
74
/3207/
4.1
/193110/
80
/106/
80
/5228/
78
/32/
cc age 15+

The Thin Red Line (1998)
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.3
/101009/
73
/2244/
73
/2136/
3.6
/122449/
77
/159/
85
/2516/
61
/38/
cc age 16+

Frida (2002)
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
6.9
/18300/
70
/849/
67
/446/
4.7
/253/
86
/106/
77
/75/
68
/19/
cc age 15+

Mr. Jones (2019)
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
75
7.1
/24463/
69
/380/
66
/347/
3.5
/13850/
88
/34/
77
/302/
65
/9/

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
74
6.6
/32155/
71
/2668/
70
/800/
3.2
/39793/
81
/126/
92
/679/
66
/30/
cc age 13+

Devotion (2022)
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
6.6
/5755/
63
/111/
60
/89/
3.6
/7921/
87
/15/
74
/121/

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
poster
74
7.8
/17172/
73
/213/
69
/195/
3.9
/8528/
81
/16/
93
/275/

Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
poster
77
74
7.8
/7780/
76
/323/
78
/861/
3.8
/11358/

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues (1975)
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
6.9
/164999/
70
/11100/
70
/2032/
3.4
/1316346/
93
/261/
88
/532/
70
/40/
cc age 16+

Companion (2025)
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.
poster
73
7.5
/16379/
73
/168/
64
/145/
3.6
/3508/
74
/65/
80
/243/
71
/26/

Sunshine (1999)
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
poster
Kanopy
73
6.9
/6362/
70
/151/
65
/160/
3.5
/7919/
86
/37/
67
/7/
76
/11/

The Student (2016)
A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.8
/248822/
79
/13461/
79
/6704/
3.9
/425879/
82
/226/
85
/990/
72
/36/
cc age 16+

Captain Fantastic (2016)
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
poster
Hoopla
72
7.0
/7369/
69
/155/
65
/66/
3.5
/1975/
82
/33/
72
/118/
74
/16/

A Woman in Berlin (2008)
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
7.2
/526/
71
/26/
69
/12/
3.6
/999/
83
/23/
75
/4/
66
/12/

By Sidney Lumet (2015)
An analysis of director Sidney Lumet's work (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead) in his own words, based on a five-day interview recorded shortly before his death.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.9
/6038/
66
/81/
65
/89/
3.6
/3954/
88
/32/
74
/124/
cc age 14+

Save the Tiger (1973)
A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.7
/1542/
70
/85/
63
/36/
3.4
/982/
96
/25/
67
/18/
74
/9/

The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.1
/27175/
68
/1056/
61
/470/
3.5
/26447/
91
/133/
61
/621/
79
/32/
cc age 17+

Dear White People (2014)
A campus culture war between Blacks and whites at a predominantly white Ivy League college comes to a head when the staff of a satirical magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.
poster
71
7.7
/498/
61
/17/
62
/14/
3.8
/930/
89
/18/

Babi Yar. Context (2021)
Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/44737/
68
/750/
67
/726/
3.5
/26627/
78
/37/
73
/620/
60
/16/

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.3
/8528/
73
/310/
71
/175/
3.6
/11941/
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.
poster
71
7.0
/30429/
72
/587/
70
/500/
3.7
/36553/
65
/37/
81
/1197/
61
/11/
cc age 13+

The Way We Were (1973)
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
71
7.1
/18363/
72
/1037/
72
/767/
3.4
/25358/
68
/78/
7.5
/103156/
cc age 11+

Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved by a mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
71
7.6
/61032/
73
/1865/
70
/622/
3.3
/16760/
69
/154/
78
/4735/
56
/31/
cc age 16+

Religulous (2008)
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.


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