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1. Scarface (1983)
R | 170 min | Crime, Drama
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Votes: 919,020 | Gross: $45.60M
2. The Dictator (2012)
R | 83 min | Comedy
The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 335,806 | Gross: $59.65M
3. Cosmopolis (2012)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 50,157 | Gross: $0.74M
4. Unknown (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 269,574 | Gross: $63.69M
5. Transatlantic (2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, History
An American journalist who spent 13 months in France 1940-41 managed to arrange safe passage to the US for over 2,000 refugees; who were in danger of losing their lives.
Stars: Gillian Jacobs, Lucas Englander, Cory Michael Smith, Corey Stoll
Votes: 5,609
6. Before Night Falls (2000)
R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovani Florido
Votes: 26,406 | Gross: $4.22M
7. Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
R | 101 min | Drama
Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle, Mauricio Venegas
Votes: 3,830 | Gross: $0.15M
8. Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx
Votes: 21,199 | Gross: $2.01M
9. The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
In 1940, an American former Republican prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, John McKittrick, is determined to find the killer of NYPD Lieutenant Louie Lepetino, who had helped him escape.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison
Votes: 1,993
10. Sirens in the Aegean (2005)
115 min | Comedy
A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
Director: Nicos Perakis | Stars: Yannis Tsimitselis, Yorgos Seitaridis, Ioannis Papazisis, Socratis Patsikas
Votes: 3,316
11. Poetical Refugee (2000)
130 min | Drama
A young illegal immigrant from Tunisia tries to survive in the world of Paris miseries.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika
Votes: 927
12. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
PG | 110 min | Drama
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
Director: Cao Hamburger | Stars: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk, Paulo Autran
Votes: 6,670 | Gross: $0.76M
13. Popi (1969)
G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
A Puerto Rican widower concocts an extraordinary plan for making a better life for his two motherless sons.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, Miguel Alejandro
Votes: 1,003
14. Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler (1982– )
300 min | Drama
Follows a German boys involvement in the Hitler Youth during the pre WWII years.
Stars: Marlies Engel, Rolf Becker, Leslie Malton, Gila von Weitershausen
Votes: 129
15. Invisible Heroes (2019)
285 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Stars: Pelle Heikkilä, Sophia Heikkilä, Ilkka Villi, Aksa Korttila
Votes: 674
16. Born Equal (2006 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama
Four characters living in one neighbourhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
Director: Dominic Savage | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Colin Firth, Peter McNeil O'Connor, Nicholas Burns
Votes: 596
17. The Boat Is Full (1981)
PG | 101 min | Drama, War
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ... See full summary »
Director: Markus Imhoof | Stars: Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Martin Walz, Curt Bois
Votes: 704
18. La fiancée du poète (2023)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
Mireille Stockaert is a lonely and broken woman. In love with painting and poetry, she makes do with her work in the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in Namur. Her life changes when she chooses ... See full summary »
Director: Yolande Moreau | Stars: Yolande Moreau, Sergi López, Grégory Gadebois, Estéban
Votes: 155
19. Bulgarian Lovers (2003)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A straight-laced Spanish man falls in love with a young foreigner.
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Dritan Biba, Pepón Nieto, Roger Pera
Votes: 959 | Gross: $0.06M
20. Shadow of China (1989)
PG-13 | 131 min | Drama
A Chinese political refugee tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism. His past comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Stars: John Lone, Kôichi Satô, Sammi Davis, Vivian Wu
Votes: 169
21. Yankee Buccaneer (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 366
22. The Black Pimpernel (2007)
R | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.
Directors: Åsa Faringer, Ulf Hultberg | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo, Lisa Werlinder
Votes: 830
23. Flucht in den Norden (1986)
117 min | Drama
A film based on Klaus Mann's novel about a woman's escape from Nazi Germany to Finland.
Director: Ingemo Engström | Stars: Katharina Thalbach, Jukka-Pekka Palo, Käbi Laretei, Lena Olin
Votes: 113
24. Dead Letter Office (1998)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "... See full summary »
Director: John Ruane | Stars: Miranda Otto, George DelHoyo, Alicia Banit, Tess Mornana
Votes: 464
25. Aylan Baby (2022)
Action, Crime, Drama
Alan Kurdi (Kurdish: Alan Kurdî ), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a three-year-old Syrian - The bodies of Kurdi and another child were discovered by two locals at around 6:30 am. The two men moved the bodies from the water,
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Wilma Elles, Mike Mitchell, Preity Üpala, Ahmet Oztürk
Votes: 8
26. My Tehran for Sale (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself ... See full summary »
Director: Granaz Moussavi | Stars: Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi, Mobina Karimi
Votes: 1,714
27. Shadow of the Holy Book (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A look at how multinational corporations curried favor with Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006), the despot of oil- and gas-rich Turkmenistan, primarily through translating "Ruhnama," his ... See full summary »
Director: Arto Halonen | Star: Nastaran Nasirzadeh
Votes: 232
28. Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas (2017)
80 min | Documentary
Farmland - the new green gold. Hoping for export revenues, Ethiopia's government leases millions of hectares of farmland to foreign investors. But the dream of prosperity has a dark side ... See full summary »
Director: Joakim Demmer | Stars: Alexander Karim, Mohammed Alamoudi, Ivan Holmes, Argaw Ashine
Votes: 98
29. Diálogos de exiliados (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Huguette Faget, Sergio Hernández
Votes: 177
30. Guns (1980)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Freelance journalist and former radical Tony blithely picks away at a gun-running plot that implicates the French government, Emirati oil barons, and a shady corporate gangster and his anxious, floundering son.
Director: Robert Kramer | Stars: Patrick Bauchau, Juliet Berto, Peggy Frankston, Hermine Karagheuz
Votes: 24
31. Secretos (2008)
85 min | Comedy
What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Claudia Di Girólamo, Sergio Hernández, Álvaro Espinoza, Marcial Edwards
Votes: 70
32. The Dawn of Fear (2022)
74 min | Documentary
Director: Tomi Brotherus | Stars: Pedro Ahumada, Tomás Balaguer, Lysa Brotherus, Tapani Brotherus
33. Rosa; After Luxemburg (2011)
17 min | Short, Drama
Rosa, named after the Marxist theorist and activist Rosa Luxemberg, struggles to deal with her overtly progressive mothers. Rosa's attempt at maintaining a normal teenage existence is ... See full summary »
Director: Desi Achilleos | Stars: Tori Bailey, Yvonne Christ, Lil Crump, Paige Leacey
34. Secret Diplomacy (2013)
70 min | Documentary
During Pinochet's coup d'etat young Finnish diplomats started a secret operation to rescue thousands of Chileans from the military junta.
Director: Tomi Brotherus | Stars: Pia Roslund, Angelina Vázquez, Pedro Ahumada, Alfonso Padilla
Votes: 15
35. Laylat El Qabd Ala Bakiza Wa Zaghloul (1988)
Comedy, Crime
Bakiza and Zaghloul live together in a single room on the roof after losing their mansion and fortune. After being fired from their jobs, the two ladies go searching for work until they ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Abdelaziz | Stars: Soheir El-Bably, Essad Youniss, Ahmed Rateb, Wahid Seif
Votes: 129
36. Tholo potami (2000)
28 min | Short, Drama
At the end of the Greek Civil War, in 1949, Aristides Sakas escapes to Czechoslovakia. He lives there until 1980 when, under the pressure of his impending death, he decides to return to Greece.
Director: Stratoula Theodoratou | Stars: Ladislav Trojan, Miriam Kantorková, Jirí Bábek, Zdenek Maryska
Votes: 7
37. Hotel Danmark (1982 TV Movie)
Documentary
Television special about a group of political refugees from South America who were brought to Denmark by the help of Dansk Flygtningehjælp. They had escaped from torture in prison, but to.. what?
Director: Poul Martinsen
38. Göm dig Anyela! (1991)
51 min
A documentary film about a Chilean family hiding from the police after their asylum application has been rejected. The family finally receives a residence permit. Their teenage daughter ... See full summary »
Directors: Per-Åke Holmquist, Suzanne Khardalian
39. Mussolini, Churchill e cartoline (2003)
65 min | Documentary
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Gaetano Afeltra, Ares Pedroli, Enrica Colotti Pischel, Paolo Ravenna
40.
Tatort (1970– )
Episode:
Amoklauf
(1993)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Werner Masten | Stars: Manfred Krug, Charles Brauer, Lutz Reichert, Peter Lohmeyer
Votes: 55
41.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
Old Wounds
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman is somehow physically injured by the virtual reality space shooter game she's testing with its programmer. The team suspects that the game triggered suppressed traumatic memories of her life in communist China in 1989.
Director: Luc Chalifour | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox
Votes: 16
42.
Commissaire Moulin (1976– )
Episode:
Le transfuge
(1980)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Claude Boissol | Stars: Yves Rénier, Guy Montagné, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Lorraine Bracco
43.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
A Sense of Loss
(1996)
TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The shooting of a young policewoman draws Kavanagh into a tragic case in which his client refuses to help himself.
Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: John Thaw, Robin Bailey, James Barriscale, Daisy Bates
Votes: 87
44.
A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode:
If Memory Serves
(1989)
TV-14 | Drama, Action
Hawk is hired to protect a Haitian historian from someone he believes is trying to use voodoo to learn of a secret.
Director: Mario DiLeo | Stars: Avery Brooks, Paul Butler, Nathan George, Charles Dumas
Votes: 17
45.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Payment Overdue
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A callous collection agent discovers that she herself has an overdue payment involving Rita Valdez, a client who took drastic steps to end her financial woes.
Director: John Drury | Stars: Maura Swanson, Lewis Arlt, Wanda De Jesus, Paul Sparer
Votes: 198
46.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
Battle for Hong Kong
(2020)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, News
With unique access inside the battle for Hong Kong, FRONTLINE follows five protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their... See full summary »
Director: Robin Barnwell | Stars: Will Lyman, Priyanka Boghani, Sarah Childress, Katie Worth
Votes: 59
47.
The Hunter (1952– )
Episode:
Rendevous in Prague
(1952)
24 min | Drama
Bart Adams finds a clue to the whereabouts of a Czech patriot, a portrait painter by trade, who is hiding in Prague. Traveling undercover, he tries to locate spirit her past the Iron ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Barry Nelson, Barbara Joyce, Alan Stevenson, Herb Voland
48.
The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo (2022– )
Episode:
An Emotional Journey
(2022)
60 min | Documentary
The final leg of his walk is a very personal one for Michael as he is back in Spain, in the Catalonian Pyrenees. In 1939, his father fled through these mountains as a political refugee from the Spanish Civil War.
Star: Michael Portillo
Votes: 6
49.
The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode:
Secrets and Sacrifices
(2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Cuba's survival depends on its Communist allies. The end of the Cold War means the end of foreign aid to the island - and pushes Cuba to the brink of famine.
Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Dariel Alarcón Ramirez, Juan Juan Almeida, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 80
50.
The Cuba Libre Story (2015–2016)
Episode:
Moments of Transition
(2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
After ruling Cuba for decades, Fidel Castro hands the reigns to his brother Raúl, who ushers in a thaw in relations with the United States.
Directors: Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio | Stars: Ken Eaken, Juan Juan Almeida, Jose Basulto, Fulgencio Batista
Votes: 78