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1. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,336
2. Antebellum (2020)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston
Votes: 29,884
3. Donkey Skin (1970)
91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle
Votes: 6,409
4. Alien Nation (1989–1990)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, a human cop and his alien partner fight crime and discrimination in Los Angeles.
Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland
Votes: 5,524
5. The Easy Life (1962)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Votes: 12,490
6. Red Dust (1932)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor
Votes: 4,942 | Gross: $1.70M
7. Brave New World (1980 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Julie Cobb, Bud Cort, Keir Dullea, Ron O'Neal
Votes: 1,152
8. Brave New World (1998 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.
Directors: Leslie Libman, Larry Williams | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt
Votes: 2,151
9. The Hidden Blade (2004)
R | 132 min | Drama, History, Romance
A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Votes: 7,211 | Gross: $0.04M
10. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,634
11. The Housemaid (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Romance
When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the... See full summary »
Director: Derek Nguyen | Stars: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Svitlana Kovalenko
Votes: 901
12. McLeod's Daughters (1996 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Western
Following the death of her mother, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the farm where she spent the first few years of her life. Drover's is a rural cattle property in South Australia, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Tammy Macintosh, Kris McQuade, Mercia Deane-Johns, Simone Kessell
Votes: 459
13. Out in the Open (2019)
103 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In a tyrannical and oppressive Spain of misery and poorness, a child starts a runaway looking for freedom.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: Luis Tosar, Luis Callejo, Jaime López, Vicente Romero
Votes: 1,595
14. Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe
Votes: 631
15. Kansas Pacific (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Western
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon
Votes: 808
16. Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
An Overseer named Ahpossno comes to Earth to take the slaves, and all humans, back to the mothership.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas
Votes: 1,540
17. Torrid Zone (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Plagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,495
18. Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995 TV Movie)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Sikes and Francisco are called in to a case when a mysterious young girl, who looks part Newcomer, part human, appears. Her huge, brutish counterpart tries to free her from the precinct, ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas
Votes: 1,101
19. Brother Future (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 103 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
Director: Roy Campanella II | Stars: Phill Lewis, Carl Lumbly, Michael Burgess, Akosua Busia
Votes: 228
20. La doncella de piedra (1956)
100 min | Drama
Director: Miguel M. Delgado | Stars: Elsa Aguirre, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Armando Silvestre, José Elías Moreno
Votes: 19
21. ¡... Y murío por nosotros! (1951)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy
Director: Joselito Rodríguez | Stars: Carlos López Moctezuma, Felipe de Alba, Andrés Soler, Titina Romay
Votes: 13
22. Agria pathi (1967)
87 min | Adventure, Drama
After a fierce clash between the violent overseer of a small group of woodcutters and a lascivious supervisor, a beautiful rice-worker will find herself before a cruel fate. Will she ever find peace, and with it, true love?
Director: Stelios Tatasopoulos | Stars: Anestis Vlahos, Anna Iasonidou, Thanos Martinos, Giota Soimoiri
Votes: 15
23. De nuevo a la vida (1973)
98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Benjamín Arce, Luis Cabrera, Leonidas Carvajal, Gerardo Casavilca
Votes: 15
24. The Sanctuary (2014)
15 min | Short, Sci-Fi
In a future crippled with an international fertility crisis, the majority of women are slowly growing infertile. Society is spiraling out of control as the wealthy and insatiable capitalise... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Linton | Stars: Victoria Gibson, Dennis Hewitt, Richard Jack, Ben Lucas
Votes: 6
25. Samuel Slater - Hero or Traitor? (2006)
26 min | Short, History
Director: Lloyd Johnston | Stars: Nicholas Bentley, Chris Herriott, Barry Coope, Lester Simpson
26. The House with the Golden Windows (1916)
Drama
Director: George Melford | Stars: Wallace Reid, Cleo Ridgely, Billy Jacobs, James Neill
27.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Camp
(1997)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
For 12 generations, humanity has been enslaved by aliens and imprisoned in camps overseen by androids. One woman dares to challenge the authority of the Commandant. Her desire to be free is pitted against the seemingly invincible aliens.
Director: Jonathan Glassner | Stars: Harley Jane Kozak, David Hemblen, Bill Cobbs, John Tench
Votes: 350
28.
The Tripods (1984–1985)
Episode:
Will Is Made a Slave
(1985)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Fritz tries to change his job by sneaking into The Power Elite. Meanwhile Will learns about the Earth and the real origins of the Masters.
Director: Bob Blagden | Stars: John Shackley, John Woodvine, Robin Hayter, Julian Battersby
Votes: 43
29.
The Tripods (1984–1985)
Episode:
Blessings of the Cognosc
(1985)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After meeting the Cognosc, Will is under increased threat of being found out by the Masters. Will and Fritz decide to leave the city while they can.
Director: Bob Blagden | Stars: John Shackley, John Woodvine, Robin Hayter, Edward Highmore
Votes: 42
30.
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004– )
Episode:
Naomie Harris
(2019)
59 min | Documentary, Biography, History
On a journey from Trinidad to Grenada to Jamaica, Naomie learns of an ancestor's involvement in the exploitation of so-called 'liberated Africans' shortly after the abolition of slavery, ... See full summary »
Director: Eleanor Scoones | Stars: Naomie Harris, Phil Davis
Votes: 71
31.
The Outpost (2018–2021)
Episode:
For the Sins of Your Ancestors
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
With the Outpost taken over by hostile black-bloods, Talon must band with her allies to fight back.
Director: Marc Roskin | Stars: Jessica Green, Jake Stormoen, Imogen Waterhouse, Anand Desai-Barochia
Votes: 225
32.
Against the Wind (1978)
Episode:
The Flogging Parson
(1978)
Drama, History, Western
Mary and Polly begin to settle into their various situations in the new colony. Jonathan falls afoul of the cruel overseer Pike, and pays for his slip in judgment
Director: George Miller | Stars: Jon English, Mary Larkin, Warwick Sims, Julia Blake
Votes: 13
33.
Against the Wind (1978)
Episode:
An Agreement Between Officers and Others
(1978)
Drama, History, Western
Time passes in the colony. Jonathon begins to have genuine feelings for Mary, thinking of the future he learns to read and write. Greville expands his empire and is prepared to eliminate anyone how gets in his way
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Jon English, Mary Larkin, Warwick Sims, Julia Blake
Votes: 12
34.
Rita Rocks (2008–2009)
Episode:
Get Off Off of My Cloud
(2009)
20 min | Comedy
Jay convinces Rita to accompany him to a business dinner with a potential big shot client. However, the client takes interest in Rita's band and offers them a gig at a corporate banquet. Jay fears it'll destroy the potential deal.
Director: Shelley Jensen | Stars: Nicole Sullivan, Richard Ruccolo, Tisha Campbell, Natalie Dreyfuss
Votes: 29
35.
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991–1992)
Episode:
The Grandmother of Invention
(1992)
22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When going back to Nik's place they see the Modded Lorien and they follow her to a waste disposal site.
Director: Noel Price | Stars: Katharine Cullen, Melissa Marshall, James Findlay, Andrew Clarke
Votes: 14
36.
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991–1992)
Episode:
Escape from Globecorp
(1992)
22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Petey and Alana send a Drone to Nik's place and tell Jenny that they need her help to get out of Globecorp. Silverthorn plots with Draco to steal nuclear weapons from 1990 and take over Globecorp.
Stars: Katharine Cullen, Melissa Marshall, James Findlay, Andrew Clarke
Votes: 16
37.
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991–1992)
Episode:
A Chase Through Time
(1992)
22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After escaping, Alana, Jenny, Petey and Nik go back to Maeve's place and Alana tries to bring Lorien out of the moddy trance but is unsuccessful. Silverthorn takes Draco and some of his men to 1990 to get the nuclear weapons.
Stars: Katharine Cullen, Melissa Marshall, James Findlay, Andrew Clarke
Votes: 15
38.
Roots (2016)
Episode:
Part 1
(2016)
TV-14 | 99 min | Drama, War
In the river region of the Gambia in 1750, Omoro Kinte and his wife, Binta, have a son named Kunta. Kunta is kidnapped in 1767 and sold to British slave traders. After he arrives in ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Malachi Kirby, Derek Luke
Votes: 529
39.
Roots (2016)
Episode:
Part 2
(2016)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, War
Redcoats attempt to persuade slaves to run away and join the English army; Kunta escapes but slave catchers apprehend him and amputate half of his foot to ensure that he never runs off ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Emayatzy Corinealdi, Emyri Crutchfield, Matthew Goode, Genevieve Hannelius
Votes: 431
40.
The Long Song (2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2018)
TV-PG | 58 min | Drama
The Christmas riots and the abolition of slavery turn the world of Amity upside down and throw July's destiny into question. But when order is restored and a new overseer Robert Goodwin ... See full summary »
Director: Mahalia Belo | Stars: Hayley Atwell, Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry, Jo Martin
Votes: 118