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1. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 740,650 | Gross: $56.67M
2. The Lost City of Z (2016)
PG-13 | 141 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland
Votes: 99,384 | Gross: $8.58M
3. The First Purge (2018)
R | 97 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
America's third political party, the New Founding Fathers of America, comes to power and conducts an experiment: no laws for 12 hours on Staten Island. No one has to stay on the island, but $5,000 is given to anyone who does.
Director: Gerard McMurray | Stars: Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Steve Harris
Votes: 70,913 | Gross: $69.49M
4. The 6th Day (2000)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker
Votes: 127,833 | Gross: $34.60M
5. Missing (1982)
PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Votes: 23,329 | Gross: $14.00M
6. Hidden Agenda (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch
Votes: 4,597 | Gross: $1.03M
7. Amos & Andrew (1993)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime
A Pulitzer prize writer buys a cabin. The neighbors get suspicious when a stranger "breaks in". They see a black man and call the police, who start shooting at him. The sheriff tries a cover-up involving a white petty crook. Bad idea.
Director: E. Max Frye | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Lerner, Margaret Colin
Votes: 9,869 | Gross: $9.75M
8. Closet Land (1991)
R | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
In a drab police state, an author of children's books is interrogated by a sadistic, secret policeman. She's under suspicion of embedding anti-government messages in her stories.
Director: Radha Bharadwaj | Stars: Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman
Votes: 3,046 | Gross: $0.26M
9. Bandit Queen (1994)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 5,312 | Gross: $0.40M
10. Romero (1989)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez
Votes: 2,448 | Gross: $1.32M
11. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
R | 106 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Brian Keith Allen, Moazzam Begg, Christopher Beiring
Votes: 16,799 | Gross: $0.27M
12. I Witness (2003)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.
Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia de Rossi, Clifton Collins Jr.
Votes: 1,581
13. The Favorite (1989)
R | 104 min | Adventure
The true story of Aimee Dubuca De Rivery, a French girl sold into slavery to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams, Amber O'Shea, James Michael Gregary
Votes: 324
14. Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt
Votes: 1,921
15. Orapronobis (1989)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco), murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel,... See full synopsis »
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Phillip Salvador, Dina Bonnevie, Gina Alajar, Bembol Roco
Votes: 168
16. The Overnighters (2014)
PG-13 | 102 min | Documentary, Drama
Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
Director: Jesse Moss | Stars: Jay Reinke, Andrea Reinke, Alan Mezo, Shelly Schultz
Votes: 2,551 | Gross: $0.11M
17. Sestre (2011 TV Movie)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two sisters from Krusevac, Serbia, decided to take part-time job in Italy, little did they know that they will become victims of human trafficking, prostitution, and well organized crime organization.
Director: Vladimir Paskaljevic | Stars: Ivana Vukovic, Ana Mandic, Ljubomir Bandovic, Ana Maljevic
Votes: 815
18. Katips (2021)
142 min | Crime, Drama, History
A tale of the young, in their fight for their ideals, how big can one get against a force too much bigger than yourself?
Director: Vince Tañada | Stars: Afi Africa, OJ Arci, Joshua Bulot, Mon Confiado
Votes: 3,686
19. Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking (2017)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary, Crime
With 27 million victims worldwide, Stopping Traffic starts the conversation on a taboo topic through the eyes of survivors, activists, and front-line rescue teams to launch a movement to end modern-day slavery in the U.S. and abroad.
Director: Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | Stars: Susanne Dietzel, Carolina Douthit, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, Mario Garfias
Votes: 138
20. Codename: Butterflies (2009)
63 min | Documentary
"Code Name: Butterflies," is the first documentary to tell the powerful story of the Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic. In the 1950s, Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal, who ... See full summary »
Director: Cecilia Domeyko | Stars: Enrique Almirante, Yavalys González, Roxana Montenegro, Yaremis Pérez
21. Luz en el encierro (2013)
88 min | Documentary
On the 29th of August 1990, the Mexican architect Bosco Gutiérrez Cortina was kidnapped in Mexico City. During 257 days, he lived in a room of 3x1 meters, without control of the light and ... See full summary »
Director: Rodrigo Occelli | Star: Bosco Gutiérrez Cortina
Votes: 13
22. On the Line (2007)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean
Votes: 34
23. Antigone - Ant(íg)on(i)a (2022)
19 min | Short, Drama
Post coup d'etat, Antigone's director becomes yet another "missing person". His sister, protagonist in the play, seeks justice. Stories across multiple timelines resurface Sophocles's Human Rights, within a democratic judicial process.
Director: Carmen Morin | Stars: Luna Yahbes, Marcelo Acha, Marco Precedo, Lorenzo Cao
Votes: 7
24. A Letter from Leticia (2017)
3 min | Animation, Short, Biography
Leticia Veraldi, a high school student in Buenos Aires, was moved 750 miles away from home for protection. She used to write letters to her former school friends.
Director: Irene Blei