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1. American Made (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 208,378 | Gross: $51.34M
2. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge
Votes: 33,186 | Gross: $5.22M
4. Europa Europa (1990)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms
Votes: 17,491 | Gross: $5.58M
5. Masked and Anonymous (2003)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bob Dylan, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 5,003 | Gross: $0.53M
6. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
PG | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Votes: 8,296 | Gross: $4.81M
7. The Round-Up (1966)
90 min | Drama, History, War
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, ... See full summary »
Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár, Gábor Agárdi
Votes: 3,304
8. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,454
9. Heart of a Dog (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev
Votes: 9,098
10. The Girl from Monday (2005)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick
Votes: 1,162
11. We the Living (1942)
Not Rated | 170 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the ... See full summary »
Director: Goffredo Alessandrini | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi, Giovanni Grasso
Votes: 418
12. Rage to Kill (1987)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this ... See full summary »
Director: David Winters | Stars: James Ryan, Oliver Reed, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Cele
Votes: 433
13. Pulkownik Kwiatkowski (1995)
123 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.
Director: Kazimierz Kutz | Stars: Marek Kondrat, Renata Dancewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Adam Ferency
Votes: 946
14. The Seventh Companion (1968)
89 min | Drama, War
The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Aronov, Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Popov, Aleksandr Anisimov, Georgiy Shtil, Pyotr Chernov
Votes: 563
15. Le souper (1992)
90 min | Drama, History
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, ... See full summary »
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Ticky Holgado
Votes: 641
16. Kontributsiya (2016)
100 min | Adventure, History, Mystery
Drama detective thriller in the best traditions of Agatha Christie. An immediate investigation starts following the disappearance of a diamond. Each of the people gathered in the room is ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Snezhkin | Stars: Maksim Matveev, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Ilya Noskov, Nadezhda Tolubeeva
Votes: 216
17. Infinity (1992)
206 min | Drama
Reflecting on meaning of life, the hero of the movie involuntarily becomes the real participant of own memoirs. His fellow traveler - he 20 years ago, the young young man who isn't burdened... See full summary »
Director: Marlen Khutsiev | Stars: Vladislav Pilnikov, Aleksei Zelenov, Marina Khazova, Anna Tchernakova
Votes: 161
18. Cadet Rousselle (1954)
105 min | Adventure, Comedy
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks know love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but a ends involved in a monarchist plot.
Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: François Périer, Dany Robin, Bourvil, Madeleine Lebeau
Votes: 170
19. Szerencsés Dániel (1983)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (... See full summary »
Director: Pál Sándor | Stars: Péter Rudolf, Sándor Zsótér, Katalin Szerb, Mari Törőcsik
Votes: 260
20. Destination Nicaragua (1986)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary about a group of Americans who go to Nicaragua to learn about the conflict between the Contras and the Sandinistas.
Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Tyne Daly, Daniel Ortega, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 9
21. Buynyy Terek (1981)
71 min | Drama, History
The film "Exuberant Terek" is production of North Ossetian TV Film Studio. The events of the film take place after the February Revolution of 1917. In the center of the film - the fate of ... See full summary »
Director: Izmail Burnatsev | Stars: Barasbi Mulayev, Dagun Omaev, Suren Khugayev, Valeriy Tsariyev
22. Melodrama (Szabadság és szerelem) (1991)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Péter Gothár | Stars: Zsolt Anger, Mari Balogh, Tibor Bitskey, Oli Boldoghy
Votes: 35
23. 102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (1998 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
German writer Ernst Jünger was born and lived in what has been the centre of European power, culture, politics and science for virtually the entire 20th century. Jünger fought in the first ... See full summary »
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister | Stars: Björn Cederberg, Ernst Jünger, Mikael Persbrandt
Votes: 29
24.
Jake 2.0 (2003–2004)
Episode:
The Spy Who Really Liked Me
(2003)
Drama, Sci-Fi
Jake and his team are under review for a mission they carried out.
Director: David Straiton | Stars: Christopher Gorham, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Marina Black, Judith Scott
Votes: 43
25.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Borrasca
(1988)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tubbs and Switek go undercover and pose as drug dealing middlemen to take down Borrasca, a very dangerous counter revolutionary who uses drug money to fight the war against communism in his country.
Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 298
26.
Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode:
Episode #2.3
(1977)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Romance
Morwenna's love for Drake causes her to reject an arranged marriage with a pompous minister, and Drake bedevils George by seeding his pond with toads.
Director: Philip Dudley | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Gregory de Polnay, Robin Scobey
Votes: 29
27.
Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(1977)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, History, Romance
Warleggan presses trumped-up charges against Drake in revenge for his romance with Rowenna, and Ross plans a daring rescue of Dwight from a French prison.
Director: Philip Dudley | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Kevin McNally, Dave Carter
Votes: 27
28.
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode:
Gambit
(1983)
TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama
In the early days of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Reilly works on behalf of the British to topple the Bolsheviks and get Russia back in the war.
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sam Neill, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell, Brian Protheroe
Votes: 67
29.
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode:
Shutdown
(1983)
TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama
Stali presses a reluctant Dzerzhinsky to execute Reilly as the Cheka chief resists Stalin's efforts to dismantle 'The Trust.'
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Sam Neill, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell, Laura Davenport
Votes: 63
30.
The Last of Us (2023– )
Episode:
Endure and Survive
(2023)
TV-MA | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While attempting to evade the rebels, Joel and Ellie cross paths with the most wanted man in Kansas City. Kathleen continues her hunt.
Director: Jeremy Webb | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Lamar Johnson, Melanie Lynskey
Votes: 78,295
31.
New Discourses (2020– )
Paulo Freire and the Marxist Transformation of the Church
(2022 Podcast Episode)
190 min
32.
Babylon Berlin (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2017)
TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to solve a criminal case - a porn ring run by the Berlin Mafia. He uncovers a dangerous web of shadows.
Directors: Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries | Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Peter Kurth, Matthias Brandt
Votes: 1,374