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Disney Plus
89
8.6
/1545322/
84
/46615/
82
/21706/
4.2
/2211532/
94
/206/
96
/34713/
90
/24/
cc age 8+

Star Wars (1977)
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
poster
88
8.1
/37364/
79
/698/
79
/768/
4.3
/46663/
97
/30/
94
/1033/

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
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Criterion Channel
81
7.6
/26353/
72
/566/
74
/536/
4.0
/49736/
84
/45/
87
/394/

The Trial (1962)
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.
poster
81
7.4
/26968/
73
/563/
71
/454/
3.8
/36339/
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.
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Hoopla
80
7.2
/1618/
73
/53/
74
/52/
3.4
/7491/
96
/27/
83
/11/

Terrestrial Verses (2023)
A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse.
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Kanopy
80
8.0
/1574/
76
/33/
70
/28/
3.7
/662/

Saving Face (2012)
Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives.
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Kanopy
80
7.5
/6614/
77
/321/
73
/138/
3.8
/6772/
93
/72/
85
/96/
77
/29/
cc age 15+

The Hunting Ground (2015)
A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. The film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue—despite incredible push back, harassment and traumatic aftermath—both their education and justice.
poster
Kanopy
80
76
7.6
/9309/
74
/242/
73
/238/
3.9
/22968/
100
/8/
82
/124/

Strike (1925)
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
poster
75
8.0
/618010/
78
/13669/
75
/8052/
3.7
/325436/
64
/214/
90
/35204/
64
/39/
cc age 17+

Blood Diamond (2006)
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
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Hoopla
75
7.1
/27028/
69
/335/
66
/289/
3.6
/11762/
74
/100/
83
/800/
85
/26/

Before Night Falls (2000)
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.3
/61961/
73
/1125/
71
/1042/
3.6
/48394/
76
/37/
80
/689/
60
/16/

This Boy's Life (1993)
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.7
/44158/
74
/589/
73
/380/
3.8
/16147/
68
/37/
87
/542/
61
/15/

Evil (2003)
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.6
/4278/
66
/185/
67
/110/
3.3
/8178/
86
/43/
84
/4/
67
/4/

Detention (2019)
In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
7.2
/20708/
71
/809/
70
/514/
3.4
/32809/
67
/12/
66
/343/
cc age 12+

Animal Farm (1954)
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
poster
70
69
7.7
/7457/
76
/383/
75
/228/
3.7
/6455/
63
/8/
81
/44/
46
/4/

The True Cost (2015)
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
poster
Kanopy
67
6.1
/1037/
70
/72/
56
/27/
3.4
/1083/
76
/34/
88
/17/
73
/12/

Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018)
Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.
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Paramount+ Amazon Channel
65
7.0
/89750/
74
/2509/
71
/1363/
3.3
/28338/
52
/117/
74
/1359/
43
/32/
cc age 15+

The Last Castle (2001)
A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
59
6.6
/2590/
68
/125/
60
/76/
4.0
/18991/
89
/35/
56
/24/
75
/10/

Born in Flames (1983)
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
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Hoopla
59
6.0
/4384/
72
/465/
70
/188/
3.1
/946/
76
/119/
41
/4/
cc age 13+

Priceless (2016)
James, down on his luck and desperate for some quick cash, agrees to drive a small truck across country. He soon realizes that he's made a huge mistake and has inadvertently become involved in a dangerous human trafficking ring. The unlikely hero risks it all to shut down the trafficking ring and save the woman he is falling in love with.
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Fandor
72
57
7.0
/2052/
71
/78/
66
/50/
3.5
/1931/
83
/35/
73
/29/
72
/8/
cc age 16+

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
6.2
/2071/
61
/92/
69
/50/
3.2
/497/
31
/42/
62
/27/
49
/17/
cc age 14+

Desert Dancer (2014)
Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.
poster
Sun Nxt
60
54
6.1
/15247/
61
/208/
60
/85/
2.9
/8957/
56
/16/
64
/34/

Kabali (2016)
A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.
poster
Kanopy
75
53
7.5
/1278/
68
/53/
65
/30/
3.7
/1810/
94
/18/
78
/34/

Before Stonewall (1984)
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
poster
Netflix
67
43
6.5
/7055/
62
/114/
68
/18/
3.2
/11211/
76
/12/

Thangalaan (2024)
During the British rule, Thangalaan, a fierce tribal leader, and his tribe assist Lord Clement, a British General, to trace gold in their village. While searching for the gold, the villagers earn the wrath of Aarathi, an apparent sorceress, who Thangalaan sets out to stop with all his might.
poster
Netflix
62
40
5.8
/390/
58
/92/
72
/13/
3.1
/10006/
cc age 13+

Kontrabida Academy (2025)
When a mysterious TV transports her to a school for on-screen villains, a restaurant worker finds new purpose — and a way to get back at her enemies.
poster
74
37
8.0
/2604/
73
/34/
69
/15/
3.8
/1179/

The Toth Family (1969)
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
poster
74
37
7.7
/440/
71
/21/
71
/30/
3.9
/2598/

The Wrung-Out Man (1980)
Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is well until he is mistaken for a multinational worker who killed the boss at a party where he received the title of symbolic worker.
poster
69
35
6.5
/1436/
72
/22/
63
/21/
3.3
/529/
100
/6/
52
/11/

The General Died at Dawn (1936)
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
poster
67
31
7.3
/1209/
64
/11/
65
/16/
75
/12/
65
/11/

The Inheritors (1998)
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
30
3.7
/37585/
48
/1150/
44
/666/
1.8
/19960/
9
/93/
20
/1477/
14
/25/
cc age 14+

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina vows to bring equality and prosperity to her land, the evil mage Profion plots to depose her.
poster
70
25
7.3
/774/
54
/14/
69
/18/
3.4
/611/
90
/16/

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
57
23
6.2
/1203/
63
/48/
53
/31/
3.1
/256/
45
/24/

The Apocalypse (2004)
While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions.
poster
59
20
5.7
/739/
56
/26/
59
/38/
3.2
/276/

The Wild Men of Kurdistan (1965)
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
poster
62
19
7.0
/1101/
54
/9/
54
/21/
3.5
/438/

Deadly Maria (1993)
40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she has to take care of her ill despotic father. One day, she falls in love with her sensitive neighbour Dieter. But her attempt to leave her gloomy everyday life behind leads straight into tragedy.
poster
69
15
7.1
/744/
75
/7/
61
/12/
3.5
/469/

Press (2010)
The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.
poster
Kanopy
53
13
7.4
/247/
30
/3/
36
/5/
3.7
/1022/

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005)
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
poster
56
9
6.6
/491/
66
/8/
57
/13/
38
/3/

Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu (2017)
Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime and ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation.
poster
?
6.3
/38/
70
/1/
80
/1/

Surviving Syria’s Prisons (2025)
A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.
poster
?
100
/1/

Loro Sono Qui (2025)
You are in a bedroom observing a man quietly sleeping in his bed. His TV turns on and a strange figure shows up.
poster
?
20
/1/

After the Gold (1997)
More than a century ago, large scale gold mining was begun at Kolar Gold Field, Mysore. At its peak, the mines employed 36,000 workers who braved the dangerous labour and built a new life in the mining camp. Today, many third and fourth generation gold miners face the threat of not just unemployment but displacement from the area they have made their own. This film is a tribute to the "labouring lions" of Kolar Gold Field, a historical reconstruction of their work, culture and rich political traditions.
poster
?
100
/1/

Tuorås Dalska (2024)
In the small community of Älvdalen in northern Dalarna, Sweden, the unique language Elfdalian (Älvdalska) is spoken. This documentary follows Ing-Marie's personal story about how it is and has been to live with the Elfdalian language.
poster
?
7.6
/50/
68
/2/

Googoosh: Made of Fire (2024)
On stage since she was a toddler, Googoosh has been an icon of Iranian pop culture since the 1970s. Her progressive style and raw singing talent attracted worldwide acclaim and saw her performing alongside the likes of Tina Turner and Ray Charles. But the star's career came to an abrupt halt after the Islamic Revolution, which banned women from singing in public. Googoosh was placed under house arrest, where she remained for the next two decades. Niloufar Taghizadeh's documentary, which includes interviews with the charismatic singer (now in her seventies, but still performing and advocating for women and girls) and arresting archival footage, offers both a loving portrait of a national icon and a fascinating historical and cultural record of Iran.
poster
?
10
/1/

Demi-Goddesses (2023)
The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.
poster
Hoopla
?
7.6
/48/
63
/3/

A Blooming Business (2009)
A documentary about people in Kenya who are imprisoned by the global flower industry. The dilemmas of the industry become painfully clear and a dark world of oppression, sexual abuse and terrible working conditions unfolds. There is only one conclusion possible: the smell of the imported rose is not sweet, but bitter.
poster
59
?
6.9
/338/
60
/5/
50
/5/

Astrapogiannos (1970)
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.
poster
?
4.0
/30/

Giro girotondo... con il sesso è bello il mondo (1975)
It is the year 2010 and, due to extreme overpopulation, casual sexual activity has been outlawed. An innocent young girl named Little Red Riding Hood makes her way across the countryside encountering all manner of people exhibiting sexual perversion from both sides of the law. As she witnesses these lewd acts, she dreams of a time when these sexual unions weren't forbidden and people were free to act on their impulses.
poster
?
7.1
/11/
70
/1/
83
/3/

Under Taliban Law (2022)
On August 15, 2021, Afghanistan descends into chaos. In one day, the completion of the withdrawal of Western forces precipitated the debacle of the regime in place: the army vanished, the leaders fled and the Taliban took Kabul without a fight. The great Central Asian country opens a new chapter in its tragic history, twenty years after the "war on terror" launched by George W. Bush in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The undisputed masters of 40 million trapped Afghans, the "students of religion" are back and are savoring their revenge by posing as the United States' victors. Their program will surprise no one: to restore the Islamic emirate and set up the "true" sharia, i.e. a perfect world, with divine commandments applied to the letter as in the time of the prophet.
poster
?
5.9
/9/

The Viking Sisters (2022)
In 10th century Norway, a young shaman is forced to hunt down her outlaw sister.


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