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1. A Study in Sociology (1913)
Short, Drama
A clause in the will of an old millionaire forbids his daughter from marrying any man but one who has become prominent through hard work. A relative of the girl introduces her to a supposed... See full summary »
Star: Harry Spingler
2. Nanook of the North (1922)
Passed | 78 min | Documentary
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou, Allegoo
Votes: 13,459
3.
En direct de... (1956–1974)
Episode:
Visite à l'IFOP
(1956)
20 min | Documentary
Directors: Igor Barrère, Jean-Marie Coldefy | Stars: Robert Rocca, Pierre Bellemare, Max Favalelli, Robert Manuel
4. À la découverte des Français (1957–1974)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Étienne Lalou, Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, Michel Bouquet, Jacques Krier
5. Si c'était vous? (1957–1958)
Drama
Stars: Jacques Marin, Yvette Etiévant, Alain Nobis, Jean Bertho
6.
À la découverte des Français (1957–1974)
Episode:
La Butte-à-la-Reine
(1957)
45 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Jean-Claude Bergeret | Stars: Jean-Claude Bergeret, Michel Bouquet, Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, Jacques Krier
7.
À la découverte des Français (1957–1974)
Episode:
Rue du Moulin de la Pointe
(1957)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Jacques Krier | Star: Michel Bouquet
8. The Master of Apipucos (1959)
10 min | Short, Documentary
Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Star: Gilberto Freyre
Votes: 108
9. La justice des hommes (1959–1960)
45 min | Documentary
Stars: Étienne Lalou, Claude-Henri Salerne, Edmond Michelet, René Floriot
10.
La justice des hommes (1959–1960)
Episode:
Enfants inadaptés
(1959)
40 min | Documentary
Director: Igor Barrère | Star: Étienne Lalou
11.
À la découverte des Français (1957–1974)
Episode:
Le Café du Beau Site
(1959)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Jacques Krier | Stars: Étienne Lalou, Jacques Bigot, Jean Bigot, Paulette Bigot
12. College Confidential (1960)
Approved | 91 min | Drama
Sociology prof's survey on youth lifestyle raises hackles when sex questions surface; reporter gets anonymous tip, prof's past emerges.
Director: Albert Zugsmith | Stars: Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Walter Winchell, Mamie Van Doren
Votes: 222
13. Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.
Directors: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch | Stars: Angelo, Nadine Ballot, Catherine, Céline
Votes: 3,588
14. Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Passed | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel
Votes: 4,837
15.
Portrait souvenir (1960–1969)
Episode:
Montesquieu
(1962)
42 min | Documentary
Director: Jacques Demeure | Stars: Maurice Duverger, Maurice Garrel, Michèle Simonnet, André Thorent
16.
Portrait souvenir (1960–1969)
Episode:
Tocqueville
(1963)
48 min | Documentary
Director: Paul Seban | Stars: Raymond Aron, André Thorent
17. Nejvetsí prání (1964)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Young people in Czechoslovakia are asked and respond to one simple question, "What is your greatest wish?".
Director: Jan Spáta
Votes: 46
19. The Hour of Truth (1965)
101 min | Drama
A German Jewish engineer is the only survivor of a concentration camp where he would work in a counterfeiting unit.
Director: Henri Calef | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand, Michèle Girardon
Votes: 65
20. Viramundo (1965)
37 min | Documentary, Short
Geraldo Sarno tries to understand, in this documentary, why people leave the Northeastern region in Brazil way to São Paulo.
Director: Geraldo Sarno
Votes: 61
21. Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.) (1966)
88 min | Drama
The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Alexandra Kluge, Günter Mack, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Korte
Votes: 1,057
22. I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
X | 121 min | Drama, Romance
Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt, Peter Lindgren
Votes: 4,303 | Gross: $20.24M
23. Anatomy of Violence (1967 TV Movie)
29 min | Documentary
A sociological study of violence using footage from the Dialectics of Liberation conference in London.
Director: Peter Davis | Stars: David Prowitt, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Stokely Carmichael
Votes: 9
25. Régie 4 (1968–1969)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Stars: Jacques-Olivier Chattard, Jean-Louis Barrault, René Cassin, Claude Millier
26.
Régie 4 (1968–1969)
Episode:
La rentrée des cadres
(1968)
24 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Director: Maurice Frydland | Stars: Philippe Badet, Pierre Viaud, Madame Badet
27. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Trendy West Coasters Bob and Carol try wife-swapping with square Ted and Alice.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
Votes: 7,279 | Gross: $31.90M
28. No Blade of Grass (1970)
R | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick
Votes: 2,059 | Gross: $0.35M
29. R.P.M. (1970)
R | 92 min | Drama
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the heady days of campus activism in the late 1960's. ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield
Votes: 697
30. L'hexagone (1970–1972)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Stars: Henri Marque, Pierre Charpy, Antoine Pinay, Henri Grenet
31. Vilarinho das Furnas (1971)
65 min | Documentary, History
Director: António Campos | Star: Anibal Gonçalves Pereira
Votes: 37
32. Dirty Harry (1971)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
Directors: Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Votes: 168,396 | Gross: $35.90M
33. Bexiga, Ano Zero (1971)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt at home while developing their businesses... See full summary »
Director: Regina Jehá
Votes: 6
34. A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets Camille Bliss in prison to interview her. Camille is accused of murdering her husband Clovis and her ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand
Votes: 2,775
35. Signes des temps (1972–1975)
55 min | Documentary
Stars: Hubert Knapp, Jean Trémolières, Jean-Claude Bringuier, Marcel Bluwal
36.
Sympathy for the Devil (1972– )
Episode:
Magara oder Das Glück, Angst zu haben. Zur Sozialgeschichte der populären Musik der Afro-Amerikaner II.Teil
(1972)
Documentary, Music
Director: Michael Leckebusch | Stars: Alexis Korner, Maggie Bell, Joe Cocker, Champion Jack Dupree
37.
Signes des temps (1972–1975)
Episode:
Promenades et conversations l'été dernier dans les Cyclades
(1972)
49 min | Documentary
Director: Jean-Michel Meurice | Star: Rene Dubos
38. Swap Meet at the Love Shack (1973)
97 min | Comedy
There's no plot to get in the way of the bondage action, as four lovely ladies are securely tied and muzzled in a variety of positions.
Director: Hubert Frank | Stars: Monica Marc, Michael Maien, Ingrid Steeger, Britt Corvin
Votes: 125
39. Skihaserl-Report (1973)
90 min | Comedy
A sociologist is studying sexual habits at an Alpine ski resort.
Director: Franz Vass | Stars: Dieter Assmann, Marguerite H. Boulware, Johannes Buzalski, Anne Graf
Votes: 27
40. Questionnaire (1973–1981)
Talk-Show
Stars: Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, Hubert Beuve-Méry, Cyrille Koupernik, José Bidegain
41. Brás (1973)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary that presents the evolution and then present 1970's Brás region, which started as an immigrant's place that welcomed the Italian community and their factories and ... See full summary »
Director: Regina Jehá | Star: Armando Bógus
42. Edvard Munch (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 210 min | Biography, Drama, History
This biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Kerstii Allum, Eric Allum
Votes: 3,381 | Gross: $0.04M
43. One or the Other (1974)
105 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
What started as a simple blackmail, quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Jürgen Prochnow, Ulla Jacobsson
Votes: 284
44. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 663
45. Who Killed Jenny Langby? (1974 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Julie Dawson, Peter Cummins, Mark Lawrence, Jane Kilgariff
47. Somewhere to Go (1974)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Brian Bergin | Star: Hugh Richard Hudson
48.
Archives du XXème siècle (1971–1979)
Episode:
Claude Lévi-Strauss: 2ème émission
(1974)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
Directors: Pierre Beuchot, Serge Hanin | Stars: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean José Marchand
49. Mädchen in Wittstock (1975)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to interview women and girls about their work... See full summary »
Director: Volker Koepp
Votes: 62
50. Access: Experiment in Port Adelaide (1975)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Bob Kingsbury | Star: Caroline Ainslie
52. A Mão do Povo (1975)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The loss of creativity faced by the country people when they have to move to the big city.
Director: Lygia Pape
54. Urok po sotziologiya (1975)
8 min | Animation, Short
The rabbit was placed in a Lion reserve. Every lion that tries to eat a rabbit falls off a bullet. The lions begin to fear the rabbit and delight him. The rabbit swings the whip over the ... See full summary »
Director: Pencho Bogdanov
55. I Taught Them But They Didn't Learn (1976)
19 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Ron Saunders | Star: Patrick Frost
56. They Reckon a Woman's World Is Just It and a Bit (1976)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Meg Stewart
57.
Archives du XXème siècle (1971–1979)
Episode:
Roger Caillois: 2ème émission
(1977)
53 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Michel Latouche | Stars: Roger Caillois, Jean José Marchand
58.
Apostrophes (1975–1990)
Episode:
Une certaine idée de la France
(1977)
75 min | Talk-Show
Director: Jean Cazenave | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Bernard Cathelat, Maurice Dalinval, Jean-Paul Dollé
59.
Questionnaire (1973–1981)
Episode:
Qui a peur de faire des enfants?
(1979)
60 min | Talk-Show
Director: Arlette François | Stars: Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, Evelyne Sullerot
60. Talking Heads (1980)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Votes: 3,771
61.
Ah! Vous écrivez? (1976–1980)
Episode:
Viviane Forrester
(1980)
23 min | Short, Talk-Show
Director: Nicolas Ribowski | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Viviane Forrester
63. Chambre 666 (1982 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, ... See full summary »
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi, Ana Carolina
Votes: 1,519
64. The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
100 min | Drama
The tragic accident of an Italian laborer ,working on the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer
Votes: 197
65. This Woman Is Not a Car (1983)
23 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol... See full summary »
Director: Margaret Dodd | Stars: Phil Colson, Richard Morecroft, Daniel Sedgwick, Gareth Sedgwick
Votes: 9
67. Celso and Cora (1983)
109 min | Documentary
Australian feature length documentary about a poverty stricken family living in a squatter's dwelling in Manila, Phillipines. Doc is set during a three month period and tells the story of ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Kildea
Votes: 10
68. Illustrerat samtal med professor Lars Kristiansson (1984)
123 min | Documentary
Based on the conversations Jösta Hagelbäck and Erik Ostlund had with Lars Kristiansson, a professor of information theory with data communication at Chalmers University in Gothenburg,Sweden... See full summary »
Director: Jösta Hagelbäck | Stars: Jösta Hagelbäck, Lars Kristiansson, Erik Östling
69. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
245 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over ... See full summary »
Stars: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 487
70. Ta touvla (1985)
96 min | Comedy
Two streetwise childhood friends and powerful financial tycoons who never quite managed to graduate from high school will go back to class, only to fall for the same girl. But, are they willing to let the woman do the choosing?
Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Sotiris Moustakas, Dinos Iliopoulos, Stamatis Tzelepis
Votes: 240
71. Leben in Wittstock (1985)
85 min | Documentary
Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town several times to examine life of the female ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Koepp
Votes: 17
72. Down and Out in America (1985 TV Movie)
Unrated | 57 min | Documentary
A recession in the mid-1980s affects Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.
Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Lee Grant, Jeff Farmer, Bob Hanson, Robert Hayes
Votes: 242
74. Real Dirt: An Argument for Social Development in Schools (1986 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Gabrielle Kelly
76. Long Shadows (1987)
88 min | Documentary, History, War
Tells the story of the legacy of the American Civil War, the ways in which the Civil War is still felt and seen in American society and culture, from foreign policy to pop cultures, from ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Spears | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Robert Coles, John Hope Franklin, Albert Murray
Votes: 7
77.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Code of Honor
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the leader of an alien culture takes a romantic interest in Lt. Yar, he claims her for his own, to the dismay of his own wife, who, in turn, challenges Tasha in a fight to the death.
Directors: Russ Mayberry, Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,616
79.
Apostrophes (1975–1990)
Episode:
Ça va saigner
(1988)
76 min | Talk-Show
Director: Jean Cazenave | Stars: Bernard Pivot, Pierre Darmon, Jean Héritier, Charles Mérieux
80. The Seventh Continent (1989)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Votes: 17,051
81. Borders (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary, Drama
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas.
Directors: Merrill Aldighieri, Joe Tripician | Stars: Robert Anton Wilson, Brian Freemantle, Michio Kaku, Margaret Randall
Votes: 37
86. Just Black? (1991)
57 min | Documentary
Presents interviews with several young men and women of mixed racial heritage. Each has one black parent and one white, Asian or Hispanic second parent. They discuss their views on their ... See full summary »
Director: Francine Winddance Twine
87. Beyond Hate (1991 Video)
90 min | Documentary
Directors: Dominique Lasseur, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Myrlie Evers-Williams, John Kenneth Galbraith, Nadine Gordimer
Votes: 16
88. A Place in the World (1992)
PG | 120 min | Drama
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a... See full summary »
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 2,796 | Gross: $0.10M
89. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 655
90. Personal Details (1992– )
30 min | Family
Stars: Stuart Hall, Dalton Grant, Steve Jack, Jennifer Stoute
92. Kamera und Wirklichkeit (1992 TV Movie)
186 min | Documentary
Filmmakers Harun Farocki und Andrei Ujica discuss footage from their documentary Videograms of a Revolution (1992) about the revolution in Romania 1989 with scientists.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica, Andrei Plesu, Friedrich Kittler
93.
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems (1989–1993)
Episode:
Democratic Allsorts
(1993)
Documentary
Frances Moore Lappé (author of the 1971 bestseller Diet for a Small Planet) discusses how global powers impose food scarcity as a means of political control and resource acquisition.
Stars: Julie Kalya, Frances Moore Lappé
94. Barred Wives (1994 Video)
54 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary examining four women and their relationships with their husbands who are prison inmates in correctional facilities.
Director: Jacquelynne Willcox
96. 2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono (1995)
45 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Edward De Bono's hand sketches out words and simple pictures on a scrolling sheet of white paper. It seems we have been put in a cryogenic freeze in 1988, and have been brought out after ... See full summary »
Director: Edward De Bono
Votes: 8
98. The Harmonists (1997)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The film chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Heinrich Schafmeister
Votes: 3,615 | Gross: $0.48M
100. Coloquio internacional sobre la violencia (1997– )
60 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Néstor Braunstein, Rolando Cordera Campos, Juliana González, Graciela Hierro
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