Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "children", "protest"

1. The Tomorrow War (2021)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.

Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin

Votes: 228,393

2. A Hidden Life (2019)

PG-13 | 174 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon, Karin Neuhäuser

Votes: 28,249

3. Ikiru (1952)

Not Rated | 143 min | Drama

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka

Votes: 87,759 | Gross: $0.06M

4. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Mystery

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi

Votes: 16,013 | Gross: $0.03M

5. Persepolis (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux

Votes: 100,286 | Gross: $4.45M

6. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas

Votes: 10,721

7. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,230 | Gross: $0.27M

8. Crazy in Alabama (1999)

PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.

Director: Antonio Banderas | Stars: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty

Votes: 7,401 | Gross: $1.95M

9. Umberto D. (1952)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova

Votes: 28,253 | Gross: $0.07M

10. Fast Food Nation (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

An examination of the health risks involved in the fast food industry as well as its environmental and social consequences.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 25,167 | Gross: $1.00M

11. I Am Cuba (1964)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García

Votes: 10,694

12. The Official Story (1985)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History

During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana

Votes: 10,885 | Gross: $0.03M

13. Amen. (2002)

Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 14,984 | Gross: $0.27M

14. Day of the Wacko (2002)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

24 hours in the bitter life of a frustrated divorced teacher who stays in the vicious circle of his numerous obsessions.

Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej Grabowski, Michal Koterski

Votes: 11,830

15. Eight on the Lam (1967)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

A bank teller is suspected of embezzlement and goes on the run with his seven children.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton

Votes: 726

16. The Ninth Day (2004)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Thriller, War

A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau

Votes: 1,949 | Gross: $0.07M

17. Machuca (2004)

Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.

Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim

Votes: 12,666

18. Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005 Video)

R | 52 min | Documentary

An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.

Director: David Gregory | Stars: Chris Theobald, Norman Abbott, Barrie Gold, Bill Best

Votes: 487

19. Dinosaur 13 (2014)

PG | 95 min | Documentary

A documentary about the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.

Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Stan Adelstein, Lanice Archer, Robert Bakker, Philip Currie

Votes: 3,983

20. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.56M

21. Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (1995)

112 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds... See full summary »

Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Mohammed Nahnal, Hana' Nc'mch, Bushra Karaman, Raida Adon

Votes: 164

22. Our Brand Is Crisis (2005)

Unrated | 85 min | Documentary

A documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.

Director: Rachel Boynton | Stars: Mauricio Balcazar, James Carville, Tad Devine, Stanley Greenberg

Votes: 640 | Gross: $0.17M

23. Passage du milieu (2000)

78 min | Drama, History

A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

Director: Guy Deslauriers | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Maka Kotto

Votes: 136

24. 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

R | 80 min | Documentary

A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.

Directors: Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet | Stars: Spencer Jones, Tyler Barrick, Dustin Lance Black, Linda Williams Stay

Votes: 1,273 | Gross: $0.10M

25. Cronicamente Inviável (2000)

101 min | Crime, Drama

Dissection of Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political and sociological theses.

Director: Sergio Bianchi | Stars: Umberto Magnani, Cecil Thiré, Dira Paes, Betty Gofman

Votes: 676

26. The Lottery (2010)

Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, Drama, News

Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at the crisis in public education, The Lottery makes the case than any child can succeed.

Director: Madeleine Sackler | Stars: Cory Booker, Geoffrey Canada, Candice Fryer, Gregory Goodwine Jr.

Votes: 593 | Gross: $0.05M

27. Journey to the Sun (1999)

104 min | Drama

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Nazmi Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan, Ara Güler

Votes: 1,889 | Gross: $0.00M

28. Windhorse (1998)

97 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Three young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Wagner | Stars: Dadon, Jampa Kelsang, Richard Chang, Yu Lu

Votes: 175 | Gross: $0.28M

29. Sing Your Song (2011)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

Director: Susanne Rostock | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion, Fran Scott Attaway

Votes: 502 | Gross: $0.05M

30. The Year I Did Nothing (2019)

75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Set in 1985, Manila, 3 Filipino siblings spend an extended summer waiting to immigrate to the United States, while the Philippines gets ready to evict their homeland's notorious dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.

Director: Ana Barredo | Stars: Nora Lapena, Jared Xander Silva, Faith Toledo, Bianca Buena

Votes: 23

31. Family Fundamentals (2002)

75 min | Documentary

What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who "become homosexual?" FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong's personal attempt to answer that explosive question.

Director: Arthur Dong | Stars: Brian Bennett, Kathleen Bremner, Paul Bremner, Guy Foti

Votes: 140

32. Eyes of the Detective (2001 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary, Crime

Albert Kirby, the retired Detective Superintendent who headed the investigation into the murder of James Bulger in 1993, reflects on his involvement with the case.

Director: Teresa Hunt | Stars: Albert Kirby, Alan Williams, Denise Fergus, Sue Kirby

Votes: 19

33. Namens ... De kinderen van de Pijp (1972 TV Movie)

39 min | Documentary

As part of a large city renewal project in Amsterdam, children successfully fight for their own play street in the run-down, severely congested De Pijp district.

Director: Roeland Kerbosch | Stars: Ronald Dam, Jan van Dijk, Ruud Boontje, Roger de Reus

34. Ti ehoun na doun ta matia mou (1984)

115 min | Comedy, Drama

Three brothers trying to find a real good job. They live in different places in GReece. Meet to their lives difficulties, but they don't give in.

Director: Thodoros Maragos | Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Petros Zarkadis, Kostas Tsakonas, Giannis Evdaimon

Votes: 70

35. Politics of the Heart (2007)

67 min | Documentary

In 2002, the Quebec National Assembly voted unanimously to extend the same parenting rights to homo-parental families as heterosexual parents, providing the recognition of homosexuals' ... See full summary »

Director: Nancy Nicol

36. Namens ... Nogmaals de Pijp (1972 TV Movie)

41 min | Documentary

A follow-up to the documentary Namens ... De kinderen van de Pijp (1972), showing the realization of a play street for the children in De Pijp district in Amsterdam, but focusing more on ... See full summary »

Director: Roeland Kerbosch | Stars: Werner Buck, Ronald Dam, Roger de Reus, Jan van Dijk

37. Mission to Matrimony (2006)

78 min

A pro-gay-marriage Catholic archbishop. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church. High-profile politicians. A former lesbian converting homosexuals to "straightness." Two survivors of 9/11 ... See full summary »

Directors: Noah Pohl, Jerri Sher | Stars: Bob Barr, Mary Bonauto, Mickey Edwards, Barney Frank

Votes: 14

38. Friends & Enemies (1987)

88 min | Documentary, History

One thousand power workers went on strike against the South East Queensland Electrical Board (SEQEB)in February 1985 in protest against the introduction of contract worker hire. This ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Zubrycki | Star: Vince Lester

39. Same Sex America (2006 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Documentary

A look at same sex marriage through the eyes of several couples facing dilemmas raised by the uncertain state of American laws in this regard.

Director: Henry Corra | Stars: Matthew Cummings, Eliza Skinner

Votes: 141

40. Verstohlene Blicke (2008)

Short, Drama

It is a story of a young painter Danko, whose pictures are impacted by his tragic past. The dramatic recollections about his relationships with his father and a young father's wife affect ... See full summary »

Director: Svona Goro | Stars: Konstantin Frolov, Jasmin Homenko, Nikita Knikta, Julia Konovalenko

41. Born Dropped Out (2012)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short

In 2008 six children of hippies, now in their 30s and 40s, were asked to answer the same set of questions while recording themselves using a video camera.

Director: Caleb Clark

42. Sophie und der Sektenboss (2008)

120 min | Drama

In a time, in which the licentiousness is growing to a blank Greed and only the total control is standing in front of the Fall of the community; In a time in which secret elites see their ... See full summary »

Director: Ivo Sasek | Stars: Julia Hoffmann, Michael Klingemann, Klaus Mertens, Justin Möhring

43. Sentiments (1987– )
Episode: L'été de tous les chagrins (1989)

TV-14

It's a 1961 Algerian summer and 11-year-old François believes in the imminence of the end of the world. He tries to ward off fate with a prayer: "Make my parents come back. I am alone. I'm afraid".

Director: Serge Moati | Stars: Carol Styczen, Daniel Gélin, Véronique Genest, Jacques Spiesser

Votes: 7

44. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998)
Episode: Buffalo Soldiers (1994)

TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Western

A troop of buffalo soldiers comes to town and with them the idea that the government was using them instead of white soldiers, because it was felt they were more expendable.

Director: James Keach | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores

Votes: 125

45. Rags to Riches (1987–1988)
Episode: Foley vs. Foley (1987)

Not Rated | Comedy, Drama, Family

Spiro's Place, the girls' favorite malt shop, is being shut down to make way for a new development. Nick encourages the girls to protest until he learns that they are actually protesting his new project, the Foley Center.

Director: Michael Lange | Stars: Joseph Bologna, Tisha Campbell, Blanca De Garr, Kimiko Gelman

Votes: 15

46. First Ladies (2020)
Episode: Michelle Obama (2020)

Not Rated | 40 min | Documentary, Biography

Explore the life of Michelle Obama and how she carved out her own legacy while being an essential part of her husband's history-making presidency.

Director: Liz Mermin | Stars: Robin Wright, Michele Norris, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod

Votes: 90