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1. The Loop (2006–2007)
TV-14 | Comedy
A recent college graduate adjusts to life as a corporate drone.
Stars: Bret Harrison, Eric Christian Olsen, Mimi Rogers, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 2,022
2. Jake's Progress (1995)
515 min | Drama
A couple attempts to deal with big changes in their lives, their son Jake's (Barclay Wright's) increasingly troublesome behavior, and a very worrying palm-reading.
Stars: Robert Lindsay, Julie Walters, Barclay Wright, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 176
3. 75 (2017)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith
Votes: 59
4. Emmas Glück (2006)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Max is very ill. He decides to steal in his own company. But when he tries to run away with the money, he has a car accident that takes him to Emma's pigs farm.
Director: Sven Taddicken | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Jürgen Vogel, Maik Solbach, Martin Feifel
Votes: 2,095
5. Chrome Soldiers (1992 TV Movie)
R | Action, Drama
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Gary Busey, Ray Sharkey, William Atherton, Norm Skaggs
Votes: 239
6. The Manor (2013)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
An intimate portrayal of a peculiar Jewish family running a small town strip club, while attempting to nurse their relationships and themselves back to health.
Directors: Shawney Cohen, Mike Gallay | Stars: Gillian Brown, Brenda Cohen, Roger Cohen, Sammy Cohen
Votes: 229
7. Laissez-faire (2015)
80 min | Documentary, History, War
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
Director: Ruggero Arenella | Stars: Stefano Accomo, Giovanni Agnelli, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Salvador Allende
Votes: 14
8. Napakasakit, kuya Eddie (1986)
Drama
When does a family stop laughing and start crying? Economic depression takes its toll on Mello's family when he's laid off and forced to go to Saudi Arabia to find work, leaving his wife to... See full summary »
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Pilar Pilapil, Aga Muhlach, Ronaldo Valdez, Emily Loren
9. The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, War
The modern suburbs have ultimately become an unsustainable way of living. They were originally developed in an era of cheap oil, when the automobile became the center of the way people ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Greene | Stars: Barrie Zwicker, James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare
Votes: 1,028
10. Above Everything Else (1991)
122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A newsreporter is involved in an extramarital affair with a city mayor, and things get worse when he suffers a heart attack. The scandal shatters her career, and her life is at risk when ... See full summary »
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Dina Bonnevie, Tonton Gutierrez, Nanette Medved, Ronaldo Valdez
Votes: 19
11. Memoria del saqueo (2004)
120 min | Documentary
After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Fernando E. Solanas, Ronnie Wood
Votes: 1,055
12. Being Jacques Chirac (2006)
90 min | Documentary, Comedy
Parody autobiography of Jacques Chirac, the former French president.
Directors: Michel Royer, Karl Zéro | Stars: Didier Gustin, Édouard Balladur, François Baroin, Raymond Barre
Votes: 317
13. Väärät juuret (2009)
99 min | Drama
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he... See full summary »
Director: Saara Saarela | Stars: Pertti Sveholm, Milka Ahlroth, Niko Saarela, Emma Louhivuori
Votes: 221
14. To ergostasio (1981)
101 min | Drama
In high hopes of getting a loan to update his antiquated machinery, a financially hard-pressed owner of an old tannery turns to a well-to-do migrant who wants to marry his young daughter. Could he be the solution to the family's problems?
Director: Tasos Psarras | Stars: Vasilis Kolovos, Vana Fitsori, Dimitra Hatoupi, Dimitris Spyrou
Votes: 90
15. A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A theatrical documentary on the planet's dwindling oil resources.
Directors: Basil Gelpke, Raymond McCormack, Reto Caduff | Stars: Wade Adams, Abdul Samad Al-Awadi, Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi, Roscoe Bartlett
Votes: 1,999
16. Solutions locales pour un désordre global (2010)
113 min | Documentary
Heroic machist industrial agronomy producing heavily contaminated and modified food and arid wastelands is challenged by several world examples of sensitive organic approach to producing food.
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Dominique Guillet, Vandana Shiva, Ana Primavesi, Philippe Desbrosses
Votes: 340
17. The Bed You Sleep In (1993)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean's lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter writes home from college, saying she has ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Jost | Stars: Tom Blair, Marshall Gaddis, Ellen McLaughlin, Kathryn Sannella
Votes: 290
18. Podróz (2006)
29 min | Short
It's a story of a young woman from Warsaw - Iwona who has two children and works in a supermarket. He lives with his unemployed husband in a block of flats. They are always short of money -... See full summary »
Director: Dariusz Glazer | Stars: Gabriela Muskala, Jacek Braciak, Karolina Paczynska, Katarzyna Paczynska
Votes: 20
19. Buena vida (Delivery) (2004)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A young guy's home is taken over by his girlfriend's parents and their doughnut business.
Director: Leonardo Di Cesare | Stars: Ignacio Toselli, Mariana Anghileri, Oscar Nuñez, Alicia Palmes
Votes: 709
20. Metal (1999)
89 min | Drama
METAL is the story of Ray, a sensitive black, unemployed mechanic who, in spite of his debilitating and dehumanizing situation, tries to maintain a sense of dignity and moral values.
Director: Christopher E. Brown | Stars: Wedrell James, Venieta Porter, Andre C. Andre, Darnell Bishop
Votes: 64
21. L'ultimo Crodino (2009)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: Umberto Spinazzola | Stars: Ricky Tognazzi, Enzo Iacchetti, Serena Autieri, Marco Messeri
Votes: 96
22. Nosotros del Bauen (2010)
95 min | Documentary
The Hotel Bauen was built in Buenos Aires in 1978, under the military dictatorship. In December 2001, while the country sinks into a deep economic crisis, it goes bankrupt ; its employees ... See full summary »
Directors: Jérémie Reichenbach, Didier Zyserman | Stars: Gladys Alegre, Hebe Bonafini, Diego Carbone, Hugo Chávez
23. The Newsroom: Off the Record (2014)
95 min | Documentary, News
A year in the newsroom of Denmark's leading tabloid newspaper, struggling to survive in a changing media climate.
Director: Mikala Krogh | Stars: Poul Madsen, Nasib Farah, Søren Lyngbjørn, Per Mathiesen
Votes: 104
24. Lenge leve livet (2001 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Jon Ola Sand | Stars: Benedicte Adrian, Ingrid Bjørnov, Jostein Pedersen, Ole A. Sørli
25.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
Country Boys
(2006)
TV-MA | 360 min | Documentary, News
The story of two boys growing up from ages 15 to 18 in rural parts of the United States.
Director: David Sutherland | Stars: Chris Johnson, Cody Perkins, Jessica Riddle, David Stükenberg
Votes: 182
26.
Matzav Ha'Uma (2010–2015)
Episode:
Episode #5.3
(2012)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Director: Sivan Magazanik | Stars: Lior Schleien, Guri Alfi, Orna Banai, Einav Galili